Catch Me If You Can: Mitigating Compliance Risk Related To Provider Compensation
With ongoing regulatory changes and an evolving healthcare environment, it is likely that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will maintain its focus on enforcing actions against healthcare providers who prioritize their financial gains over patient well-being and unlawfully siphon funds from government programs. In this presentation, we will discuss recent enforcement actions and highlight themes related to specialty and methodology. We will also describe how organizations should manage Stark law and antikickback violations when prevention ...
Power Panel: Healthcare BV and the New Stark Regulations, Part 2
In this second power panel discussion, key thought leaders in healthcare business valuation discuss the ramifications of the recent update to the Stark regulations on business valuation practices. The panel will discuss whether many common ideas and practices need to be either modified or dropped altogether in order to meet the new regulatory definition of fair market value (FMV) under Stark. As part of the discussion, the panel will react and respond to the recent ...
Power Panel: How Should Healthcare BV Practice Change in Response to the New Stark Regulations?
In this power panel discussion, key thought leaders in healthcare business valuation discuss the ramifications of the recent update to the Stark regulations on BV practices.
The New Stark FMV is a Game Changer: The Rejection of “Survey Says” for Stark-Compliant Physician Compensation
This two-part BVR webinar series provides a critical and in-depth assessment of the new definitions of fair market value under the regulations for the federal physician self-referral law commonly known as “Stark.” Many in the healthcare valuation industry have viewed the updated definitions, along with new commentary from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as promoting “business as usual” for healthcare valuation practice. Timothy Smith, however, begs to differ. Smith was a major ...
The New Stark FMV is a Game-Changer: Foundational Concepts and Valuation Methodology
This two-part BVR webinar series provides a critical and in-depth assessment of the new definitions of fair market value under the regulations for the federal physician self-referral law commonly known as “Stark.” Many in the healthcare valuation industry have viewed the updated definitions, along with new commentary from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as promoting “business as usual” for healthcare valuation practice. Timothy Smith, however, begs to differ. Smith was a major ...
Physician Compensation and COVID-19: Then and Now and Now What?
PYA’s Kathryn Taylor, CPA/ABV, ASA, MBA (consulting senior manager), and Justin Conant (consulting senior staff) will be presenting Physician Compensation and COVID-19: Then and Now and Now What. In this 100-minute session, Kathryn and Justin will review what physician compensation was like before COVID-19 and how it changed during the pandemic. Next, we will look into the future and explain where physician compensation and physician arrangements are headed. Kathryn and Justin will go through topics ...
Stark Differences from the Inside Out: Two Key Responders Discuss The Final Stark Regulations for FMV and Commercial Reasonableness
The Stark regulations have been updated. What has changed and how does it impact value? Mark Dietrich and Tim Smith were two major contributors of public comments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) for the updated Stark regulations with over 100 pages of newly written material that was influential in the development of the final regulatory definitions for FMV and commercial reasonableness. In addition, they included over a dozen chapters from the BVR/AHLA ...
Physician Compensation and Valuation: Administering Top Tier Treatment
Assessing physician compensation is a critical component in valuing a physician practice. Many external factors, including the COVID-19 pandemic and proposed changes to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, have had and will continue to have significant impacts on physician compensation and associated practice valuations. In this discussion, Derek Long and Katie Culver will explain how physician compensation is analyzed in the context of valuation along with various factors that can influence it, both internally and ...
Healthcare Valuation Townhall: Four Expert Panel on Covid-19 Impacts and Beyond
Bring your questions as leading experts Jerry Chang, Mark Deitrich, James Lloyd and Todd Sorensen have a conversation about the critical issues impacting healthcare. Covid-19 has impacted the healthcare industry in unique ways, and those valuation experts who practice in this high regulation environment know it is critical to keep up to date about the most pressing issues. Covering a wide range of issues from four perspectives this event delivers the insight you need in ...
Healthcare Valuation in the Corona Virus Era: That Was Then, This Is Now
COVID-19 has impacted perhaps no industry in such a complex way as healthcare. Join Mark Dietrich in this discussion of items to consider before you forecast the likely impact on the healthcare industry of the current crisis. First, it is necessary to understand where the industry was before COVID-19 and then to understand what the crisis revealed about the allocation of resources. Second, you need to consider where future spending will be directed and how ...
Reconciling FMV with Investment Value: What’s Up with the Proposed Redefinition of FMV by Healthcare Regulators?
In October, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its newly proposed updates to the Stark regulations that included an overhaul of the definition of fair market value (FMV) for regulatory compliance purposes. Surprisingly, CMS pointed to a whole new framework for FMV and valuation practice in general. To help practitioners prepare for the new paradigm, Tim Smith will do a deep dive into the proposed redefinition of FMV and how CMS now ...
Healthcare Valuation Legal Check Up: Top Issues, Cases, and Hot Topics
Regulatory scrutiny of health care arrangements and fair market value is at an all-time high. In this webinar Joe Wolfe will discuss top issues, cases and hot topics in health care valuation from an attorney’s perspective. The webinar will cover key regulatory requirements (Stark, Anti-Kickback, tax exemption), enforcement trends, developing best practices for structuring appraisal engagements and potential pitfalls in reviewing and drafting written FMV opinions. Joe Wolfe will also discuss recent government guidance on ...
Beyond FMV: Commercial Reasonableness of Physician Compensation Post-MACRA
The influx of federal money over the past several decades to healthcare providers, and the allocation of those dollars, drastically transformed the healthcare delivery system in a way that has had dramatic impact on the economic and financial value of healthcare enterprises, assets, and services. The recent paradigm shift in the reimbursement environment, from volume to value, has had perhaps the greatest impact on the processes and outcomes of valuation assignments, as the reimbursement environment ...
