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Schedule
This program will be formatted as a traditional two and a half day in-person program - we are excited for attendees to connect and network in person.
The Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute will open with the Year in Review at 3:30 pm on February 2. AHLA Registration and Check-In will be open beginning at 7:00 am. The program will end at approximately 1:30 pm on February 4. We encourage attendees to add on the Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Institute, being held February 2-3, 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.
Wednesday, February 2, 2022 |
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7:00 am-5:30 pm | ||
Registration and Check-In |
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3:30-5:30 pm General Session | ||
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 |
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 | ||
2. Language Access Rights in Health Care: Improve Equity and Avoid Complaints and Litigation
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3. Look on the Bright Side: The Expansion of Telehealth During (and after) COVID-19
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4. Difficult Transactions in Health Care and How to Overcome Them
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5. 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 | ||
6. The Growing Threat: Kickback Enforcement in the Private Payor World
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7. Emerging Trends in Physician Employment/Independent Contractor Contracting and Compensation Arrangements with Hospitals
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8. Legal Ethics: When Boards are not Boring - What to Do When a Client Puts the Attorney in the Middle
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9. 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 | ||
10. Health Care Antitrust Enforcement in the Biden Administration: A New Frontier?
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11. 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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12. 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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13. Hospital Charges under the Microscope: Impact of the Price Transparency Rule and No Surprises Act
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12:15-1:15 pm | ||
Lunch on your own |
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1:30-2:30 pm | ||
14. The Past, the Present, the Future regarding Medical and Recreational Cannabis and the Myriad of Issues that Attorneys Should be Aware of from a Legal and Practical Perspective Affecting Physicians and Hospitals
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15. From the Front Lines: Implementing and Defending a Mandatory Vaccination Policy
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16. Getting the Data Out: Compliance with the Information Blocking Rule and Interoperability Requirements
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4. Difficult Transactions in Health Care and How to Overcome Them
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3:00-4:00 pm | ||
17. Culturally Competent Legal Representation of Health Care Systems
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18. Rational Rationing: Navigating Scarce Resource Allocation during COVID and Beyond A panel discussion regarding health care rationing in which we explore legal and ethical issues impacting hospitals that have arisen throughout the COVID-19 pandemic under three levels of scarcity:
For each level of rationing, presenters will provide:
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19. Advising Physicians about SuperGroups: A Mardi Gras Parade of Issues When physicians form or join a physician organization is a critical time for issue spotting. Identifying these issues is critical to the success of those negotiations, drafting documents, and advising physician clients. This session will include practical tips and real life examples for counseling clients. Best practices will be shared by the panelists.
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5. 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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4:30-5:30 pm | ||
20. The Patient Engagement and Support Safe Harbor: A New Opportunity to Address Social Determinants of Health
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21. Behavioral Health in Focus: Integrating Behavioral Health Care Using Telemental Health Services and Other Collaborative Care Models The goal of this session is to create awareness of key strategic, regulatory, and contractual considerations in evaluating potential models to integrate behavioral health into primary care. The session will discuss:
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22. False Claims Act Enforcement from The Frontlines – Investigations and Litigation in 2021 and the Outlook for 2022 The program–featuring experienced government, defense, and relator’s counsel–will spotlight select False Claims Act investigations, litigations, and settlements pertinent to hospitals and physicians from 2021. The panel will also discuss expectations for enforcement priorities and risk areas for 2022. Topics include:
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9. Ensuring Physician-Hospital Transactions Will Survive Future Compliance Scrutiny
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5:30-6:30 pm | ||
Networking Reception, sponsored by HORNE LLP (This event is included in the program registration. Attendees, faculty, and registered guests are welcome.) |
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7:00 am-1:15 pm | ||||||||
Registration and Information | ||||||||
7:00-8:00 am | ||||||||
Continental Breakfast (This event is included in the program registration. Attendees, faculty, and guests are welcome.) |
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8:00-9:15 am Extended Sessions | ||||||||
11. 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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12. 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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13. Hospital Charges under the Microscope: Impact of the Price Transparency Rule and No Surprises Act
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9:45-10:45 am | ||||||||
23. Legal Issues in Physician Compensation
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24. Why You Should be Re-Examining Health Privacy Law
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19. Advising Physicians about SuperGroups: A Mardi Gras Parade of Issues When physicians form or join a physician organization is a critical time for issue spotting. Identifying these issues is critical to the success of those negotiations, drafting documents, and advising physician clients. This session will include practical tips and real life examples for counseling clients. Best practices will be shared by the panelists.
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11:00 am-12:00 pm | ||||||||
25. Health IT in a Post-COVID World: Navigating Day-to-Day and Transactional Issues Related to Health Care Technology Information technology issues proliferate all aspects of health care operations and are critical to the strategic advancement of provider organizations of every size, and especially those that have experienced growth as the pandemic has evolved. We will cover the complex regulatory and practical aspects of health care technology issues:
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16. Getting the Data Out: Compliance with the Information Blocking Rule and Interoperability Requirements
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22. False Claims Act Enforcement from The Frontlines – Investigations and Litigation in 2021 and the Outlook for 2022 The program–featuring experienced government, defense, and relator’s counsel–will spotlight select False Claims Act investigations, litigations, and settlements pertinent to hospitals and physicians from 2021. The panel will also discuss expectations for enforcement priorities and risk areas for 2022. Topics include:
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12:15-1:15 pm | ||||||||
26. Private Equity Transactions in Physician Owned Organizations
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3. Look on the Bright Side: The Expansion of Telehealth During (and after) COVID-19
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8. Legal Ethics: When Boards are not Boring - What to Do When a Client Puts the Attorney in the Middle
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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.
Benefits of the In-Person Program
- After a year of virtual programming, you will finally be able to step out from behind your computer and network face-to-face with other health law professionals.
- Interact with colleagues at in-depth breakout sessions.
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 Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute Sponsors
If your organization is interested in sponsoring AHLA's Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute, please contact Valerie Eshleman.