Structuring Healthcare Practice Leasing, PSA and Other Practice Alignment Arrangements
Complying with Stark, AKS, HIPAA and Maximizing Reimbursement
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will provide guidance to counsel for hospitals and physician groups on structuring and negotiating practice agreements. The panel will explain how healthcare providers can leverage the benefits and understand and overcome the legal challenges.
Outline
- Employee leasing arrangements
- PSA/MSA arrangements
- Equipment leasing agreements
- Acquiring select assets
- Financial and fair market value considerations
- Hospital/health system v. physician/medical group perspective
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key questions:
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What are the primary benefits of leasing agreements for hospitals and physician groups?
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What are the critical first questions counsel must answer before drafting and negotiating practice arrangements to achieve the benefits?
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What anti-kickback and Stark law issues must leasing agreements address? How should counsel address billing matters to preserve Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals and physician groups?
Faculty

Michael L. Blau
Partner
Foley & Lardner
Mr. Blau is a partner and health transactional lawyer. His practice focuses on advising clients on health care... | Read More
Mr. Blau is a partner and health transactional lawyer. His practice focuses on advising clients on health care corporate and regulatory matters, including mergers, acquisitions, and affiliations; financing transactions; contracting; and forming provider groups, networks, alliances, and joint ventures. He is the immediate past chair of the firm’s Industry Teams Department. He is a member of the firm’s Health Care and Technology Industry Teams. He is also the immediate past chair of the firm’s Research and Development Group and the Planning Committee for the Health Care Industry Team.
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Fred M. Lara, CFA, ASA, CVA
Partner
HealthCare Appraisers
Mr. Lara has more than eleven years of fulltime healthcare valuation experience, focusing on complex compensation... | Read More
Mr. Lara has more than eleven years of fulltime healthcare valuation experience, focusing on complex compensation arrangements which may have Stark and/or Anti-Kickback implications and business valuation.
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