Recent regulatory changes will have a significant impact on valuations in the healthcare sector, and BVR is developing content designed to help practitioners navigate the new rules.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a final rule that modernizes and clarifies the regulations that implemented the Medicare physician self-referral statute (the Stark Law). The new rule went into effect Jan. 19, 2021, and is designed to make it easier for hospitals and physicians to maintain compliance with the statute in the era of value-based care. The rules impact healthcare valuations and include guidance on how to determine whether the compensation being given to physicians is at fair market value.

Call for papers: BVR is seeking proposals for papers on this topic that will be peer-reviewed. The papers can address any topic related to issues of fair market value, general market value, and commercial reasonableness under the new Stark regulations. Also, we would like to see proposals from experts in all valuation disciplines, including experts not only in business and compensation valuation, but in machinery and equipment (M&E) and real estate as well.

Please send an email with a summary of the topic of your proposed paper to andyd@bvresources.com. The deadline for proposals is April 15, 2021. 

BVR is the publisher of several guides to healthcare valuation, including the BVR/AHLA Guide to Valuing Physician Compensation and Healthcare Service Arrangements, 2nd edition (Mark Dietrich and Timothy Smith), and the BVR/AHLA Guide to Healthcare Industry Finance and Valuation, 4th edition (Mark Dietrich).

We look forward to hearing from you!