New Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors Regulations: Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Act

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Course Description

In this webinar, we will discuss the most prominent Anti-Kickback Statute Safe Harbors, starting with Discount, Employee, Equipment Rental, Personal Services and Management Contracts, Space Rental and Investment Interests. In the following webinar, we will discuss the remaining that are most pertinent. We will start with a review of the Anti-Kickback Statue, its elements, what it prohibits and how it works and then review the seven safe harbors, their standards and caselaw interpreting the individual safe harbor. In the second webinar we will also discuss a few conceptual items that are relevant to all the safe harbors.

This program is designed for health care executives, physicians and other health care providers and their managers who participate in and receive remuneration from Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs such as TriCare. Recent enforcement actions by the OIG bring home the realization that many activities that are common in other industries are a crime under federal healthcare fraud and abuse laws.

Hospital executives, as well as physicians and/or other health care providers, should be very concerned about the potential for the government to use the AKS as one of the prime methods for enforcing the federal fraud and abuse laws. In this webinar, you will learn about the elements of the AKS, along with an in-depth review of the seven most prominent safe harbors that provide protection against enforcement under these laws. This is important because healthcare fraud and abuse is becoming the focus of these enforcement efforts.

Learning Objectives

• An in-depth understanding of the seven most prominent safe harbors
• Understand what is allowed and prohibited under the Anti-Kickback Statute
• Understand what the Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act covers
• Understand how the Affordable Care Act affects the Anti-Kickback Statute enforcement
• Provide a review of the Supreme Court Escobar decision
• Understand how the courts review compliance with the Safe Harbors

Areas Covered in the Session

• Federal Anti-Kickback Statute
• Remuneration
• Intent
• Anti-Kickback Exceptions
• Scope Established by Judicial Interpretation
• The Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act of 1987
• Six Most Pertinent of The Safe Harbors
• Safe Harbors: Recurring Themes
• Enforcement Activities
• OIG Special Advisory Bulletins and Fraud Alerts
• Special Fraud Alerts 
• Recent Enforcement Cases
• Areas of Concern
• Conclusion

Suggested Attendees

• Hospital Executives, Particularly CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CNOs, and CMOs
• Physicians
• Physician Organizations
• Law Firms Representing Hospital or Physicians
• Peer Review Organizations
• Hospital Associations
• Chief Compliance Officers
• Providers
• Physician Practice Managers
• Attorneys and Legal Staff
• Medical Providers Including Registered Nurses, Physician Assistants and Administrative Staff
• Sales and Marketing Managers
• Customer Service Managers
• Risk Managers
• Other Healthcare Provider Executives

About the Presenter

William Mack Copeland, MS, JD, PhD, LFACHE, practices health care law in Cincinnati at the firm of Copeland Law, LLC.  A graduate of Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Bill is a frequent author and speaker on health law topics. Copeland is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, American, Ohio and Cincinnati Bar Associations and is a life fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. A former hospital chief executive officer, he was awarded the American College of Health Care Executives Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award in 2007. 

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• Headset: Any decent headset and microphone which can be used to hear clearly

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