Physician Payments Under PPACA's Sunshine Provisions and State Law

Meeting the Challenges of Healthcare Reform's Reporting Requirements

Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar/teleconference with Q&A


Conducted on Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Recorded event now available


This CLE webinar will provide guidance for healthcare counsel on the new reporting requirements of the physician payment provisions under the new healthcare reform law. The panel will outline best practices to meet the challenges of complying with both federal and state transparency reporting requirements.

Description

Healthcare reform ushered in reporting of payments to physicians and teaching hospitals by drug, medical device, biological or medical supply manufacturers. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's Physician Payment Sunshine (PPS) provisions, payments or transfers must be disclosed.

States are also scrutinizing physician payments, and Vermont and Massachusetts recently established payment reporting requirements. The PPS provisions preempt duplicative requirements but do not prohibit states from requiring additional or different information reporting.

Civil penalties will apply for failure to report as required. In addition, the information reported will be made available on a public searchable website. Companies and counsel must plan and implement procedures to ensure compliance with both federal and applicable state law.

Listen as our authoritative panel of experienced healthcare attorneys examines the new reporting requirements for payments to physicians and teaching hospitals under PPACA, reviews what is required by the states, and offers best practices for meeting federal and state requirements.

Outline

  1. PPACA requirements
    1. Who’s covered
    2. What must be reported
    3. What’s excluded
    4. Definitions
    5. Timeline
    6. Physician ownership reporting
  2. State requirements
    1. New states legislations
    2. States requiring more than the PPACA
    3. Exemption from PPACA
  3. Best practices to comply with federal and state law

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key questions:

  • What must be reported under the new PPACA transparency reporting requirements for physician payments?
  • What are the exemptions to the new reporting requirements?
  • What steps should companies and counsel take to ensure compliance with the new federal reporting requirements and state requirements?

Faculty

Donald H. Romano, Partner
Arent Fox, Washington, D.C.

He focuses on physician self-referral (Stark) anti-kickback matters and Medicare reimbursement issues affecting hospitals, physicians and other providers. He was previously the director of the division at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) responsible for Stark policy, including the revisions to "under arrangements" and "per click" leases.

Ann DesRuisseaux, Principal
GlobalComplianceStrategies.com, Dallas

She previously served as Assistant General Counsel with DaVita; Senior Compliance Counsel and Acting Chief Compliance Officer for Novation, LLC; Assistant General Counsel with Triad Hospitals; and a private practice healthcare attorney.

Kathleen McDermott, Partner
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, D.C.

She is a former Assistant U.S. Attorney and DOJ Health Care Fraud Coordinator and represents various health industry sectors on government investigations, voluntary disclosures, mandated compliance matters, including OIG-CIAs and DOJ consent decrees, compliance policy development for global operations, and fraud and abuse, transparency and codes of ethics counseling.

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Customer Reviews

I liked the topic and the tools provided in the handouts.

Mildred Johnson

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

All the speakers seemed extremely knowledgeable on the subject matter. Overall a very good seminar.

Stephan R. Silen

American AgCredit

Convenient and well-organized.  Well-run program.

Michael V. Kruljac

IMERYS

The back-and-forth between the panelists made the program easy to listen to. The slides were very well done.

Chris Kelly

Mayer Brown

All of the speakers were very informative, and being able to ask questions was very helpful.

Larry V. Smith

Jackson Walker

Health Law Advisory Board

Lowell C. Brown

Partner

Arent Fox

Gina M. Kastel

Partner

Faegre Baker Daniels

David A. Manko

Partner

Rivkin Radler

John J. Miles

Principal

Ober Kaler

Gregg D. Reisman

Partner

Garfunkel Wild & Travis

J. Peter Rich

Partner

McDermott Will & Emery

Donald H. Romano

Of Counsel

Foley & Lardner

Judith A. Waltz

Partner

Foley & Lardner

Jesse A. Witten

Partner

Drinker Biddle & Reath

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