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Schedule
This program will be formatted as a traditional one and a half days in-person program - we are excited for attendees to connect and network in person.
The Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Law Institute will kick off at 8:00 am on February 2. AHLA Registration and Check-In will be open beginning at 7:00 am. The program will end at approximately 12:15 pm on February 3. We encourage attendees to add on the Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute, being held February 2-4, to their registration for additional content. Step 3 in the registration process, will give you the option to add on the program.
AHLA is committed to providing a safe and healthy environment for program participants and staff. AHLA has adopted preventative measures to reduce the potential spread of the COVID-19 virus, including proof of vaccine and wearing masks, and is following guidance provided by the US Centers for Disease Control and local authorities. Attendees are also expected to do their part and abide by AHLA’s Duty of Care.
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4:30-5:30 pm | ||||||||
Registration and Check-In |
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 |
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7:00 am-5:30 pm | ||
Registration and Check-In |
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7:00-8:00 am | ||
Continental Breakfast |
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8:00-10:00 am General Session | ||
8:00-8:15 am 8:15-9:00 am
9:00-10:00 am
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10:00-10:30 am | ||
Coffee Break | ||
10:30-11:30 am | ||
3. Privacy in the Research Lifecycle: Exploring Obligations, Obstacles and a Complex Web of Laws
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4. The Graduate Medical Education Landscape: What AMCs and Teaching Hospitals Should Know about Financial and Accreditation Issues On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (CAA) was signed into law. As one of the largest spending measures ever enacted by the federal government, the CAA combined COVID-19 stimulus relief with regular annual budget appropriations. The CAA included the following three graduate medical education (GME) provisions, making it the first significant GME expansion opportunity in more than two decades:
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6. Grading the Curve: Understanding Value-Based Arrangements with AMCs
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12:00-1:00 pm | ||
7. Research Security and Foreign Collaborations: Navigating Increasingly Challenging Compliance Obligations and Enforcement Activity
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8. Precision Medicine Studies: A Perfect Storm of Legal and Ethical Issues on the Line between Treatment and Research Precision medicine may bring promise of better care to patients, but it also brings promise of complex legal and ethical issues to institutions and other providers that care for these patients. This session will identify some of these legal and ethical issues and describe how they can be addressed in the context of precision medicine studies. We will address the following topics, among others, in the context of precision medicine studies:
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9. Intellectual Property (IP) from the Trenches in an Academic Medical Center Key IP concerns and issues in an AMC. Or, “What this Nerd lawyer would like my Health Law colleagues to know.”
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6. Grading the Curve: Understanding Value-Based Arrangements with AMCs
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1:00-2:00 pm | ||
Lunch on your own | ||
2:15-3:15 pm | ||
10. Data Governance in AMCs: A Winning Strategy for Privacy Boards, Institutional Review Boards, and Patients As Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) and Universities move in a direction to reduce costs and redundancies, unique challenges surface relating to the use and disclosure of protected health information for research. The lines become blurred when each is under common control and ownership and a shared services business model exists for certain functions. The key is the separation of responsibilities of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and the Privacy Board, in relation to the data sets derived from the AMC’s electronic health records. The presentation will discuss the steps that VCU Health System has undertaken to address the challenges, leverage shared services, streamline processes for Principal Investigators, and develop practices to comply with the requirements of the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. We will discuss:
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8. Precision Medicine Studies: A Perfect Storm of Legal and Ethical Issues on the Line between Treatment and Research Precision medicine may bring promise of better care to patients, but it also brings promise of complex legal and ethical issues to institutions and other providers that care for these patients. This session will identify some of these legal and ethical issues and describe how they can be addressed in the context of precision medicine studies. We will address the following topics, among others, in the context of precision medicine studies:
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9. Intellectual Property (IP) from the Trenches in an Academic Medical Center Key IP concerns and issues in an AMC. Or, “What this Nerd lawyer would like my Health Law colleagues to know.”
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3:30-5:30 pm | ||
3:30-3:45 pm 3:45-5:30 pm While health care lawyers are used to constant change, this last year was a real head-spinner. Our speakers will thus take you on a “spin” through these developments to highlight significant changes we should all know about, including:
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5:30-6:30 pm | ||
Networking Reception, sponsored by PYA (This event is included in the program registration. Attendees, faculty, and registered guests are welcome.) |
Thursday, February 3, 2022 |
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7:00 am-5:30 pm | ||
Registration and Check-In |
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7:00-8:00 am | ||
Continental Breakfast |
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8:00-9:00 am | ||
12. Language Access Rights in Health Care: Improve Equity and Avoid Complaints and Litigation
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13. Look on the Bright Side: The Expansion of Telehealth During (and after) COVID-19
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14. Difficult Transactions in Health Care and How to Overcome Them
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15. Stark, Kickback and Value-Based Care: Lessons Learned After a Year of Reform In this session, panelists will discuss the Stark, Kickback and value-based regulatory changes. Topics covered will include:
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9:30-10:30 am | ||
16. The Growing Threat: Kickback Enforcement in the Private Payor World
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17. Emerging Trends in Physician Employment/Independent Contractor Contracting and Compensation Arrangements with Hospitals
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18. Legal Ethics: When Boards are not Boring - What to Do When a Client Puts the Attorney in the Middle
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19. Ensuring Physician-Hospital Transactions Will Survive Future Compliance Scrutiny
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10:30-11:00 am | ||
Coffee Break Exhibits Open–Meet the Exhibitors |
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11:00 am-12:15 pm Extended Sessions | ||
20. Health Care Antitrust Enforcement in the Biden Administration: A New Frontier?
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21. Virtual Care, a Pandemic, and the Future During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care–including mobile health apps, patient portals, remote monitoring, and telemedicine–became a critical way for health care providers to reach patients. This session will provide an overview of this shift in care delivery at a national level. Speakers will share real examples of virtual solutions implemented by hospitals and health systems and how those hospitals navigated the legal and regulatory flexibilities offered throughout the public health emergency. Speakers will also offer insights from their different vantage points–strategy, policy, and legal–into how services will be redesigned in the future and how virtual care can serve as the basis for other care delivery models, such as hospital at home. This will include perspectives on the benefits and challenges of this transition to virtual care, key decisions that must be made and the legal, payment, and policymaking considerations that are at play.
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22. Fair Market Value in Health Care–Year in Review: A New Stark-ly Different Post- COVID World, One Year Later This session provides a review of the previous year’s major developments related to or implicating fair market value and commercial reasonableness as regulatory requirements, and uses the recap as the basis for a “Top Ten” list of issues for counsel, compliance officers and valuation analysts to be aware of for the coming year. This year’s session will address the ongoing and residual impacts of COVID-19 and related and potentially transformative temporary and permanent regulatory and payment changes, how things have changed under the Stark Law and Antikickback final rules, the impact of the significant changes in the 2021 and 2022 Physician Fee Schedule rules and the “hot topics” of the year, including data, coordinated care incentives, and provider recruitment and retention. The basic outline for the program is as follows:
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23. Hospital Charges under the Microscope: Impact of the Price Transparency Rule and No Surprises Act (not repeated) Christi J. Braun Amanda Hayes-Kibreab Andrew D. Ruskin
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In-Person Program Format
How It Works
- We will offer in-depth breakout sessions where speakers and attendees can interact and collaborate with each other in-person.
- We consider the health and safety of all those onsite at in-person programs our top priority. AHLA will follow guidance and requirements issued by the CDC as well as by state and local government and are working with the hotel to ensure your health and safety as we transition back to in-person programming.
- All attendees, who register for the in-person program, will be required to commit to our Duty of Care agreeing to follow the protocols we establish and monitor their own health for the health and safety of all.
- We have adopted a new onsite registration system by providing seamless, touchless check-in, onsite badge printing, and safety supplies to all attendees to use while in attendance.
- Built-in extended time between sessions for moving from room to room, networking with colleagues, and personal breaktime.
- Socially distanced seating arrangements in breakout rooms, regular cleaning in and around meeting spaces, and appropriate signage/floor decals to reinforce spatial distancing and other safety reminders.
- The program sessions will be recorded. Audio of the presentations, along with the materials will be available for purchase after the program. More information on our ePrograms.
Program Accessibility and Special Needs
AHLA is committed to ensuring equitable access to our educational content. We are continually improving the user experience for everyone and offering accessibility accommodations for our in-person programs.
Thank You to Our Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Law Institute Sponsors
If your organization is interested in sponsoring AHLA's Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Law Institute, please contact Valerie Eshleman.