Key Compliance Issues for 2016

9:00am - 9:30am

Registration

9:30am - 9:35am

Welcome and Introduction

9:35am - 10:15am

Data Privacy and Compliance – Jonathan Feld and Kathrin Kudner

• • Why Data Privacy/Cybersecurity Isn’t Just an IT Problem
  • The Legal Implications of President Obama’s Cybersecurity Executive Order on the Private Sector and Critical Infrastructure Entities
  • Practical Advice to Identify, Assess and Respond to Data Privacy Risks and Attacks in Health Care Organizations  

10:15am - 11:00am  

Hospital-Physician Contracting – Monica Wilkinson

• •   Lessons from the Tuomy Litigation
  •   Advancements in Fair Market Value Analysis

 11:00am - 11:15am

Networking Break

 11:15am - 12:00pm

Individual Prosecutions in Fraud and Abuse Cases – Jonathan Feld

• • Impact of Recent DOJ Policy Statement (“Yates Memo”)
  • Theories of Personal and Corporate Liability in Health Care Cases
  • Recent Trends and False Claims Cases

 12:00pm - 12:30pm

Maintaining Exemption Under 501(r) – Kathrin Kudner

• • Changes in the Final Regulations
  • Financial Assistance Policy – Provider Listing
  • Correction and Disclosure  

 12:30pm - 1:15pm

Lunch

 1:15pm - 1:55pm

Provider-Based Update – Donna O'Connor

• • Payments for New Off-Campus Departments
  • Enforcement Trends

 1:55pm - 2:25pm

340B Drug Program Update – Kathleen Reed

• • Recent CMS Omnibus Guidance
  • Implications for Practice

2:25pm - 3:00pm

Revised Stark Regulations–Is Life Really Easier Now? – Monica Wilkinson

• • Missing and Delayed Signatures
  • Holdover Performance of Expired Contracts