Auditing Hospital-Physician Arrangements Under the New 2016 Stark Rules: Mitigating Provider Liability

Health care reform has invigorated the government’s focus on health care fraud, including enforcement of the Stark Law. Improper design and implementation of hospital-physician arrangements can result in penalties, denial of payments and exclusion from federal health care programs.

The panel will also offer best practices to counsel for health care providers to minimize liability exposure and penalties, including conducting compliance audits, instituting policies and establishing ongoing monitoring and reviews.

Listen as our panel of health care attorneys and advisors discuss the auditing process and examine the issues that arise in audits and the resolutions to those issues. The panel will offer their perspectives and experiences to mitigate the risks in physician arrangements and to avoid Stark violations.