Paying for Referrals: A Danger to Your Freedom

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Paying for Referrals A Danger to Your Freedom
Presented By William Mack Copeland (MS, JD,
Ph.D., LFACHE)
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About Speaker
William Mack Copeland, MS, JD, Ph.D., LFACHE,
practices health care law in Cincinnati at the
firm of Copeland Law, LLC. He is also president
of Executive Managerial Development Group, a
consulting entity providing compliance and other
fraud and abuse-related services. A graduate of
Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase
College of Law, Bill is a frequent author and
speaker on health law topics. Copeland is a
member of the American Health Lawyers
Association, American, Ohio, and Cincinnati Bar
Associations and is a life fellow in the American
College of Healthcare Executives. A former
hospital chief executive officer, he was awarded
the American College of Health Care Executives
Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regents Award
in 2007.
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Description
The session will provide an overview of the
Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) and review what it
prohibits, as well as review the Statutes
available safe harbors. It will also show how
violation of the AKS can raise FCA concerns, and
it will provide an assessment of enforcement
activities, showing how participants may be at
risk. In addition, the session will review recent
cases and show how they potentially impact
participants. We will provide an in-depth review
of the AKS, focusing on what is prohibited under
the Act and what the exceptions are. We will also
review the case law, particularly the early case
law that sets the stage and basis for how the
courts interpret the law. In addition, we will
discuss OIGs Joint Venture Advisory Opinion,
where a hospital expands into a related service
line by contracting with an existing provider of
that service. Finally, the webinar will review
various cases to show how easy it is to run afoul
of the Statute, and how the courts view
compliance with it.
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Learning Objectives

• How many activities that are common in industries
  are a crime under federal healthcare fraud and
  abuse laws
• The elements of the Anti-Kickback Statute, along
  with the various exceptions and safe harbors that
  you can rely on for protection
• How, under recently enacted health care laws,
  enforcement and health care fraud task forces
  have been greatly enhanced
• How the Affordable Care Act (better known as
  Obamacare), the government has greatly enhanced
  enforcement resources
• How the courts have construed the reach of the
  Anti-Kickback Statute
• How to protect yourself and your organization

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Areas Covered

• The federal Anti-Kickback Statute
• Exceptions to the Anti-Kickback Statute
• The Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program
  Protection Act
• The Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors
• OIG Special Advisory Bulletins and Fraud Alerts
• Recent case law regarding paying for referrals
• How the Affordable Care Act affects the scope of
  the Anti-Kickback Statute

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Who Should Attend

• Hospitals and Hospital executives, particularly
  CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CNOs, and CMOs
• Nursing homes and nursing home executives
• Physicians and physician practice managers
• Durable medical equipment suppliers and their
  executives
• Physical therapy practices and practice managers
• Home healthcare companies and their executives
• Other non-physician practices and
• Other healthcare provider executives

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