Time: 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern (90 minutes)
Session Format: Live Webinar
CLE Credit Available:  Yes

This presentation will focus on the procedural aspects of a bankruptcy or assignment proceeding involving a medical practice. There will be a focus on health care matters such as: dealing with medical records, patient rights advocacy, continuity of care, physician employment transitions. There will be both a mechanical discussion as to process and practical tips on how to inform staff, preserve records, participate in the smooth and orderly transition.

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate

Listen With a Colleague Registration

• AHLA Member: $149
• Government, Academician, Public Interest, or Solo Practitioner AHLA Member: $99
• Student, Paralegal, or Retired AHLA Member: $99
  AHLA Member Listen with a Colleague Option (see "Listen with a Colleague" link on Overview tab): $99
• Non-AHLA Member: $199

Content Lead:

• Physician Organizations Practice Group

The “Listen with a Colleague" option allows multiple registrants from the same organization and location to participate in the webinar at a discounted rate. It may ONLY be used if at least one person from your organization and location has registered at the regular/full webinar registration rate. Please note that those who register under the reduced “Listen with a Colleague" rate must access the webinar from the same location and computer as the full-priced registrant they are registered under.

The “Listen with a Colleague" option is continuing legal education (CLE) credit-eligible. In order to obtain a certificate of completion for submission to a state CLE accrediting body, those registered under this option must obtain the attendance verification code—which will be displayed at a random time during the webinar—and enter that code under “Verification Code for Live Webinar" section of the webinar description webpage. Please note that each registrant must submit a complete evaluation from their individual accounts to obtain a certificate of completion.

If you have any questions about this registration option, please contact customer support.

Time: 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern (90 minutes)
Session Format: Live Webinar
CLE Credit Available:  Yes

This webinar brings together individuals who, by the nature of their work or their role, interact frequently with lawyers in a variety of health care settings, including business colleagues, compliance officers, auditor/consultants, government affairs, etc. Lawyers must be aware of the many legal ethics issues that can arise during these types of interactions. The speakers will discuss the application of the ABA model rules to possible situations, including when discussions are and aren’t privileged and the attorney’s responsibility to represent the client. The presentation will also highlight best practices and important considerations in these interactions, such as where can lawyers add value, and common needs and complaints when working with the legal department or outside counsel.

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate

Listen With a Colleague Registration

• AHLA Member: $149
• Government, Academician, Public Interest, or Solo Practitioner AHLA Member: $99
• Student, Paralegal, or Retired AHLA Member: $99
  AHLA Member Listen with a Colleague Option (see "Listen with a Colleague" link on Overview tab): $99
• Non-AHLA Member: $199

Content Lead:

• Payers, Plans, and Managed Care

The “Listen with a Colleague" option allows multiple registrants from the same organization and location to participate in the webinar at a discounted rate. It may ONLY be used if at least one person from your organization and location has registered at the regular/full webinar registration rate. Please note that those who register under the reduced “Listen with a Colleague" rate must access the webinar from the same location and computer as the full-priced registrant they are registered under.

The “Listen with a Colleague" option is continuing legal education (CLE) credit-eligible. In order to obtain a certificate of completion for submission to a state CLE accrediting body, those registered under this option must obtain the attendance verification code—which will be displayed at a random time during the webinar—and enter that code under “Verification Code for Live Webinar" section of the webinar description webpage. Please note that each registrant must submit a complete evaluation from their individual accounts to obtain a certificate of completion.

If you have any questions about this registration option, please contact customer support.

Time: 12:00-12:45 PM Eastern (45 minutes)
Format: Educational Call
Topic: Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs in Criminal Antitrust Investigations Antitrust Practice Group Update

Our Antitrust Practice Group Educational Call will address recent DOJ guidance regarding effective antitrust compliance plans. We will also share Antitrust Practice Group updates

Note: No CLE offered for this course.

For access to the recording, please visit the sponsoring Practice Group page.

Content Lead:

• Antitrust

Time: 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern (90 minutes)
Session Format: Live Webinar
CLE Credit Available:  Yes

This webinar will include an overview of developments affecting compensation and benefits for health care organizations as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed at the end of 2017. Particular emphasis will be placed on analyzing the effect of Section 4960 on non-profit health care systems.

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate

This webinar is sponsored by:

• AHLA Member: $149
• Government, Academician, Public Interest, or Solo Practitioner AHLA Member: $99
• Student, Paralegal, or Retired AHLA Member: $99
  AHLA Member Listen with a Colleague Option (see "Listen with a Colleague" link on Overview tab): $99
• Non-AHLA Member: $199

This webinar is sponsored by:

Content Lead:

• Tax and Finance

This webinar is sponsored by:

About Healthcare Appraisers 

The healthcare industry is an ever-evolving and complex industry, and the federal and state laws and regulations that govern the industry are equally as fluid and complex. Formed in 2000 with the exclusive purpose of providing valuation services to the healthcare community, HealthCare Appraiserswas a pioneer in its field. In the two decades since its formation, HealthCare Appraisers has valued tens of thousands of healthcare transactions, allowing us to gain an in-depth and unparalleled understanding of the healthcare industry amidst an ever-changing landscape of regulatory oversight. Today, with eight offices strategically located throughout the country and 100+ dedicated team members, HealthCare Appraisers works with clients – ranging from small, solo physician practices to large, national hospitals and healthcare systems – in all 50 states and abroad.
 
Year after year, HealthCare Appraisers remains a market leader in healthcare valuation services. We are guided by our core values of expertise, reliability, innovation, and collaboration, and these values are apparent in all that we do.

Time: 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern (90 minutes)
Session Format: Live Webinar
CLE Credit Available:  Yes

Topic: Research and compliance

Speakers will review the following: 

• Proactive measures to protect research and IP, including risk assessments, controls assessments, establishment of travel and information security protocols, training, table top exercises, and background screening of employees
• Reactive measures if an issue is identified, including engaging counsel to conduct an investigation, dealing with potential export control or sanctions violations, false claims and false statements issues related to grant certifications, etc.
• Other practical suggestions, including establishing insider threat and compliance programs with a security company

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate

Listen With a Colleague Registration

• AHLA Member: $149
• Government, Academician, Public Interest, or Solo Practitioner AHLA Member: $99
• Student, Paralegal, or Retired AHLA Member: $99
  AHLA Member Listen with a Colleague Option (see "Listen with a Colleague" link on Overview tab): $99
• Non-AHLA Member: $199

Content Lead:

• Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals

The “Listen with a Colleague" option allows multiple registrants from the same organization and location to participate in the webinar at a discounted rate. It may ONLY be used if at least one person from your organization and location has registered at the regular/full webinar registration rate. Please note that those who register under the reduced “Listen with a Colleague" rate must access the webinar from the same location and computer as the full-priced registrant they are registered under.

The “Listen with a Colleague" option is continuing legal education (CLE) credit-eligible. In order to obtain a certificate of completion for submission to a state CLE accrediting body, those registered under this option must obtain the attendance verification code—which will be displayed at a random time during the webinar—and enter that code under “Verification Code for Live Webinar" section of the webinar description webpage. Please note that each registrant must submit a complete evaluation from their individual accounts to obtain a certificate of completion.

If you have any questions about this registration option, please contact customer support.

Session Dates: September 12, October 10, November 14
Time (All Sessions): 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern (90 minutes) 
Sessions Format: Live Webinars

In the wake of the 2016 presidential elections, media attention was drawn to the increasingly divergent economic fortunes of rural and urban America. Rural areas have suffered from high rates of outmigration and loss of human resources, and some predominantly rural regions, especially in Appalachia, have seen marked declines in life expectancy and other health indicators. One key factor in this decline has been diminished access to healthcare: rural hospitals, in contrast to their well-funded urban counterparts, have struggled to keep the lights on. Hospital groups have increasingly consolidated operations, leaving rural hospitals understaffed and underfunded. Hospital closures are far from the only negative health trend impacting rural areas: the opioid epidemic too, is concentrated primarily in rural areas. Participants in all three programs will come away with an understanding of drivers of this disparity, and innovations in public health and healthcare to address these issues. Legal and policy solutions will be discussed including the use of telemedicine, medical-legal partnerships, rural accountable care organizations, and county-based care integration models.

This webinar series will serve to bring awareness to the unique health needs of rural communities, and o inform and educate public health and health lawyers, their clients, and partners across the health care system, about the growing disparity between rural and urban health outcomes, and ways that laws and legal frameworks can be used to address this issue. This monthly series will begin in September and end in November, on November 14th, one week before the nation celebrates National Rural Health Day.

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate

• AHLA Member: $0
• Non-AHLA Member: $150

Partner(s):

• Public Health System
• CDC's Public Health Law Program

Time: 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern (90 minutes)
Format: Live Webinar
Topic: Narrowing the Rural Health Disparity Gap: Success in Using ACO’s and Integrated Care Models

In the third and final webinar in the series, speakers will offer comments on health care reform initiatives designed to improve quality and lower costs, for better population health, including accountable care models and integrated care models, and will highlight evidence of success in using these models to narrow rural health disparities.

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate

• AHLA Member: $0
• Non-AHLA Member: $50

Partner(s):

• Public Health System
• CDC's Public Health Law Program

Time: 12:00-12:45 PM Eastern (45 minutes)
Format: Educational Call
Topic: This will be a 30 minute session to discuss the latest developments in drug pricing, reimbursement and transparency, followed by a 15 minute session with the Payers, Plans and Managed Care Practice Group leaders.

Payers, Plans and Managed Care PG Fall Educational Call Sponsored by the Health Plan Affinity Group of the PPMC PG We invite you to join our first Educational Call of the new program year scheduled for November 7, 2019. Our calls are intended to provide more informal networking opportunities within AHLA and a forum to discuss timely legal, regulatory, and compliance issues relevant to our practice. Our sessions are a great way to learn about the latest policy developments and to build practical knowledge and expertise free of charge and without having to get on a plane! This call will feature an in-depth analysis of the most recent legal and regulatory developments impacting drug pricing, reimbursement and transparency, led by Stephen Paul Mahinka of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Please also join our PPMC PG leaders for a round-robin discussion of all things managed care, moderated by Jeremy Earl of McDermott Will & Emery, before closing out our call with a practice group and member update.

Note: No CLE offered for this course.

For access to the recording, please visit the sponsoring Practice Group page.

Content Lead:

• Payers, Plans, and Managed Care

Partnering Groups:

• Health Plan Affinity Group

Time: 2:00-3:30 PM Eastern (90 minutes)
Session Format: Live Webinar
CLE Credit Available:  Yes

On September 5, 2019, CMS released a final rule with comment period called "Medicare, Medicaid, and Children's Health Insurance Programs; Program Integrity Enhancements to the Provider Enrollment Process." Finalizing a proposed rule from 2016, CMS has imposed new enrollment disclosure requirements and created new avenues for denying or revoking enrollments across the range of providers and suppliers that participate in Medicare, Medicaid, or CHIP. Beginning November 4, 2019, providers and suppliers will be required to disclose certain current or past “affiliations” with other providers and suppliers if those affiliated providers and suppliers have been subject to a “disclosable event.” One key to understanding the impact of this final rule is understanding the broad scope of both “affiliation” and “disclosable events.” Hospitals, SNFs, physicians, and other providers and suppliers will need to keep track of a new range of conduct among a new range of relationships. Failure to track and disclose these affiliations will be at one’s peril, as CMS has authority to deny or revoke an enrollment if it determines that an affiliation presents “an undue risk of fraud, waste, or abuse” or if the provider or supplier failed to disclose the affiliation. The goals of this webinar will be to describe key concepts in the final rule and give those representing providers and suppliers guideposts for how to operationalize the new affiliation tracking that CMS has imposed. The webinar will focus on practical examples and takeaways.

Level of Difficulty: Intermediate

Listen With a Colleague Registration

• AHLA Member: $149
• Government, Academician, Public Interest, or Solo Practitioner AHLA Member: $99
• Student, Paralegal, or Retired AHLA Member: $99
  AHLA Member Listen with a Colleague Option (see "Listen with a Colleague" link on Overview tab): $99
• Non-AHLA Member: $199

Content Lead:

• Accreditation, Certification, and Enrollment Affinity Group

Partner(s):

• Regulation, Accreditation, and Payment Practice Group

The “Listen with a Colleague" option allows multiple registrants from the same organization and location to participate in the webinar at a discounted rate. It may ONLY be used if at least one person from your organization and location has registered at the regular/full webinar registration rate. Please note that those who register under the reduced “Listen with a Colleague" rate must access the webinar from the same location and computer as the full-priced registrant they are registered under.

The “Listen with a Colleague" option is continuing legal education (CLE) credit-eligible. In order to obtain a certificate of completion for submission to a state CLE accrediting body, those registered under this option must obtain the attendance verification code—which will be displayed at a random time during the webinar—and enter that code under “Verification Code for Live Webinar" section of the webinar description webpage. Please note that each registrant must submit a complete evaluation from their individual accounts to obtain a certificate of completion.

If you have any questions about this registration option, please contact customer support.

Time: 12:00-1:00 PM Eastern (60 minutes)

This course provides healthcare attorneys and business professionals an overview of key business components in medical practices that are essential to proper functionality and risk mitigation including structure, revenue cycle, coding/compliance, and compensation/production alignment. These concepts apply whether in private practice or hospital-employed models. Key learning objectives include:

• Identification of operational gaps (and how to close them) that create financial risk
• Understanding the “revenue cycle” and gaps
• The benefits of coding/compliance plans
• Compensation alignment and production and risk

Note: No CLE offered for this course.

Content Lead:

• AHLA

Partnering Groups:

• Stout

We serve a range of clients, from Fortune 100 corporations to privately held companies in numerous industries around the world. Our clients and their advisors rely on our premier expertise, deep industry knowledge, and unparalleled responsiveness on complex financial matters.

Since 1991, we have developed a culture at Stout where positive team attitude, accountability, commitment, entrepreneurialism, and relationship focus are our core values. This approach extends beyond the firm, as we volunteer our time, talent, and resources to positively impact the communities in which we do business.

Stout has been recognized numerous times as one of the best and brightest companies to work for. Our professionals have received numerous awards and are often called upon to share their expertise and experience at national conferences and industry forums, and for standards-setting organizations. Our technical experts speak at a variety of events, host educational webinars, and author thoughtful and timely articles that are included in our semiannual publication, The Journal.

Time and again, we deliver results across the following areas: 

Investment Banking

Our industry-focused bankers specialize in mergers and acquisitions, private capital raising, and other financial advisory services for privately held businesses, portfolio companies of private equity firms, and divisions of large corporations. Our depth of experience in recapitalizations, management buyouts, and sales or mergers provides our clients with the full range of liquidity alternatives.

Valuation Advisory

As one of the largest independent valuation practices in the country, we bring deep and specialized experience across a broad spectrum of industries in the valuation of businesses, complex securities, intellectual property, real estate, and personal property. Our opinions are fully supported and are prepared to withstand scrutiny – whether that be from the SEC, IRS, Department of Labor, a trier of fact, an auditor review, or a counterparty.

Dispute Consulting

Our deep bench of experts has decades of experience working on complex and high-profile controversies. Private sector clients, government agencies, and outside counsel engage our experts to assist with investigations; evaluate damages; analyze financial, statistical, and economic issues; and offer expert testimony in arbitrations, state courts, federal courts, and other venues throughout the world.

Management Consulting

We work collaboratively with companies to transform their businesses. Our consultants work side by side with organizations to manage risk through industry-leading analysis; make informed decisions from machine and deep learning; contain costs through process improvement; and stabilize finances and operations through restructuring.