Do you work for a hospital that needs to recruit more physicians to your area? This overview spotlights key details about avoiding federal Stark Law violations. If the physician will not be joining a local physician...more
Learning Objectives - This 90-minute webinar features the following topics: - Understand 10 common compliance concerns and challenges related to a variety of high risk hospital/physician transactions. - Develop risk...more
When assessing potential exposure for their employer-clients under federal labor and employment statutes, employment and health care attorneys often must start with the basics. That determination of employment status becomes...more
In drafting recruitment agreements, providers should separate the employment agreement from the other agreements to help diffuse breach of employment agreement arguments as a defense to the repayment of recruitment advances. ...more
Assistance to Employ a Non-Physician Practitioner (NPP) - Currently under the Stark law, the physician recruitment exception (42 C.F.R. ยง 411.357(e)) permits hospitals, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) and...more
With surprisingly little fanfare, the CY 2016 Physician Fee Schedule (the "Proposed Rule") released on July 8, 2015 proposes to add and amend several exceptions to the Physician Self-Referral Statute, commonly known as the...more