Past Events

We answered the most common questions from our hospital and clinic clients.

One year ago, the Supreme Court upended False Claims Act case law with its Escobar decision. Developments in the law since Escobar have been a mixed bag for health care providers.

Join us on April 12 for our next Health Law Webinar as we discuss recent updates affecting health record privacy and confidentiality.

On March 13, 2017, attorneys from Fredrikson’s Immigration Group presented an online program addressing employment immigration topics.

In addition to the ADA, this webinar covered new requirements imposed by Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and its implementing regulations, which apply a wide variety of affirmative obligations directly on health care entities, including requirements related to website accessibility.

Given the ever-growing shortages of physicians in the domestic workforce, healthcare employers are increasingly looking to non-traditional sources of providers, including International Medical Graduates (IMGs), who currently comprise around 23 percent of physicians enrolled in programs of Graduate Medical Education (GME) in the United States.

Among the many legal considerations involved in the sale of a physician practice are fee splitting and kickback issues, due diligence, protection of patient protected health information, third-party contract assignments, and tax considerations.

This webinar provided a broad overview of the 2017 Medicare physician fee schedule final rule, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), the 2017 inpatient and outpatient prospective payment final rules, the Cardiac Episode Payment Model final rule, if it is out, and more.

On January 24, 2017, attorneys from Fredrikson’s Immigration Group presented an online overview of the revised I-9 and related compliance issues.

This session provided a plain language summary of the basic health laws that affect hospitals and clinics, including the Medicare antikickback statute, Stark, the 2 midnight rule, incident to billing, fee splitting, the corporate practice of medicine, provider based billing, antitrust and more.

Fredrikson’s Immigration attorneys presented a half-day seminar on the latest immigration updates and best practices on September 22, 2016.

Please join us on September 14 for our next Health Law Webinar, "Social Media and the Health Care Worker: Questions and Practical Solutions."

You probably don’t want to spend your summer vacation catching up on the breaking health law news, so we will do it for you! Over the hour we provided short summaries of important topics.

This webinar provided an overview of some of the issues already apparent in the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), CJR and other value and bundled payments.

A new regulation explains how health care organizations must report and return Medicare overpayments within 60 days.

There is no question that CMS and the OIG have provider-based billing on their audit and enforcement radar. We discussed current investigations and controversies in the provider-based space.

This webinar gave an overview of the CJR program.

We discussed the issues associated with establishing fees, including what information you can gather from and share with competitors and how you can set prices in a manner that will appeal to patients with high deductible plans. We also discussed the issues associated with discounts to various patients, including out-of-network discounts and waiver of copays and deductibles and dangers that arise when organizations charge interest or attempt to collect from patients.

This webinar is aimed at physician recruiters, practice group managers, and other professionals involved in physician recruitment. The goal of this program is to enhance the ability of healthcare employers to consider, recruit, and retain IMGs, and to make immigration into a competitive edge for your organization.

While the healthcare industry is continuing to see increased integration between hospitals and physicians, the professional services agreement can be an attractive option for providers who want to align their interests while maintaining some level of independence. 

This webinar will offer practical thoughts and identify legal pitfalls with imaging, PT, lab and other ancillaries whether they are offered by a hospital, clinic or joint venture.

This webinar will be a “grab bag” format with brief coverage of a variety of EHR-related topics.

This session will discuss the basics of starting a peer review process and describe some of the benefits and potential problems of a peer review program. While there will be some information that will be helpful for hospitals and well-established peer review organizations, there will be considerable time spent on how clinics can use peer review as a tool to improve quality and manage risk.

It’s the time of year when new rules come out and the OIG releases its work plan. This webinar will focus on the regulatory and policy issues most likely to affect hospitals and clinics. Please note that while we will discuss possible economic implications of regulatory changes, including possible ramifications of the increasing scrutiny of provider-based clinics, we will not attempt to analyze any specific codes or describe RVU changes.

During the hour, John Kapacinskas and Erin Secord will discuss key issues in preparing a medical malpractice case for a favorable resolution which include: working with outside counsel to protect privileges, evaluating and synthesizing medical records, and preparing witnesses for deposition and trial. The webinar will emphasize helpful practice pointers to maximize outcomes and use the litigation process to drive favorable case resolutions.

August Special Webinar: CMS just released a final rule on how hospitals must determine whether to bill for an inpatient admission (versus an observation stay paid under Part B). Specifically, the new rule requires the physician order to document his/her determination that the patient will remain an inpatient for a time period crossing “two midnights.” We will discuss the final rule’s requirements, what hospitals can do to comply and how to challenge inpatient denials following the implementation of the new rule, which becomes effective October 1, 2013.

In this webinar, Ryan Johnson and Catherine London will discuss the key legal and regulatory issues associated with telemedicine and telehealth, including privacy and security of health information, reimbursement, patient consent, credentialing, licensure, corporate practice of medicine, prescriptive authority, and fraud and abuse.

In this webinar, we will discuss how Sunshine Act reporting will affect physicians and hospitals, including what information will be reported and publicly available, what steps physicians and hospitals should take to ensure accurate reporting, and we will describe how physicians and hospitals can challenge false or misleading information reported by manufacturers.

This webinar will include a brief refresher on what ICD-10 is and the impact it will have on health care organizations when implemented this October. We strongly recommend this webinar for those who may not be very far along in their preparations yet.

We will discuss “direct pay” practice arrangements (also referred to as “direct primary care”) – a care delivery model in which patients pay the practice a flat monthly fee in exchange for providing a predetermined set of health care services. We will summarize the approaches taken by those states that currently regulate this delivery model and highlight some of the key regulatory and legal issues associated with direct pay arrangements. We will also discuss how employers can pay for direct pay programs as a part of their benefit plans.