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Healthcare reform included a number of significant provisions pertaining to the 340B Program. This webinar will cover key compliance issues and operational challenges.

This item is a flash drive containing presentation materials from this conference held on August 18, 2009. The conference covered an overview of the industry, commercialization, market opportunities (i.e., aviation, transportation fuels, products and feed), funding opportunities, and sustainability.

This Guide was created to help employers understand the various employment laws (both federal and state) which impact their businesses. Presented in an easy-to-use reference format, this guide is a resource for business owners and human resource professionals. In addition, the guide will be useful to managers or supervisors seeking a quick reference guide for employment issues.

This webinar provides a detailed review of the “shared responsibility” rules for employers under the Affordable Care Act.

The Update is intended for individuals who currently have the Fourteenth Edition of the Guide and would like to update to the Fifteenth Edition. 

This webinar provided practical tips for both large institutions and small clinics to effectively respond to Medicare audits and explore creative legal arguments to use in an appeal to reduce alleged overpayment amounts.

This set of materials includes outlines, hand-outs, and PowerPoint slides for the 28th Annual Employment & Labor Law Seminar hosted by our Employment & Labor Law Group on November 7, 2012.

This webinar discussed the recently published, sweeping changes to the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules that will have a major effect on the privacy practices of covered entities and their business associates.

This webinar summarizes the key changes to health care laws following The “American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012,”

This webinar addresses the issues faced by health care employers due to the ever changing legal landscape of social media.

This webinar covered highlights of the 2013 Physician Fee Schedule.

This webinar will cover fair market value (FMV) valuations in health care transactions and how they can be used against you.

This webinar will cover the hiring of foreign resident physicians and the use of Conrad 30 waivers and alternatives.

This webinar will cover the major Medicare diagnostic imaging rules and guidance--such as the anti-markup rule and the Stark requirement to notify parents of alternative suppliers--and must-know recent developments.

This webinar will explore why you don’t need to automatically refund money every time a chart review determines that an Evaluation and Management (E&M) service fails to satisfy the E&M Guidelines. 

This session will explore the significant contradictions contained in Medicare instructions, and describe the legal defenses available when internal or external review asserts that an overpayment exists.

This webinar was on Understanding Medicare's Supervision, Signature and Order Policies in Clinic and Hospital Settings.

This webinar is designed to serve as a compliance training session for clinics, hospitals, device companies and other medical organizations.

Due to a recent change in FDA Medical Device Data System (MDDS) rules, systems that receive data electronically from medical devices have been declared to be medical devices themselves.

Physicians and other practitioners are increasingly interested in how to structure their Medicare and Medicaid case mix in light of falling reimbursement rates.

This webinar will review recent developments in Medicare rules introduced this fall.

This webinar will review relationships in the health care industry.

This webinar will review what everyone needs to know about HIPAA.

This webinar will review the various types of relationships drug and device manufacturers seek to establish with physicians.

One of the biggest challenges facing providers is figuring out if an overpayment exists. Whether conducting an internal investigation or responding to an outside inquiry, hospitals and clinics have to consider the substantive law and statistics.

As the number of high deductible plans increases, hospitals, clinics, patients and insurers are all focused on the legal issues associated with pricing.

CMS recently issued its long-awaited proposed regulations regarding Accountable Care Organizations (“ACOs”).

Attorney Steve Helland will share legal and business tips for negotiating an EHR contract.

Health care providers are growing larger and are forming accountable care organizations and other affiliations to contract with Medicare and other public and private payors.

Our immigration group will provide information on relevant immigration laws for health care providers/recruiters and explain issues that should be considered during the recruitment process.

Compliance Training - Invite your staff to listen in.

HIPAA and HITECH - What the changes to the law and new regulations will mean for you in the new year and beyond.

New Medicare Rules: What clinics, hospitals and other providers need to know about new rules by CMS for supervision, consult codes, e-prescribing, imaging accreditation and other important topics.

It is possible for hospitals to compensate physicians for their effort to improve the hospital's performance.

Why hospitals and physicians should care about the FDA laws you thought were just for manufacturers.

Review of various models to consider when choosing an alternative approach to delivering physician care and discuss the pitfalls and risks associated with each model.

Recent changes to the False Claims Act have renewed discussion about voluntary disclosures to the government. We will discuss how you can determine whether you are required to make a refund to Medicare and other insurers.

Learn from Kit Friedemann and Jim Platt about the forces driving the recent trends in hospital-clinic mergers and other re-alignments.

In this webinar, we present strategies to promote health workplace behavior, as well as how to establish and enforce a code of conduct.

We'll explain how the Recovery Act may provide funding for your organization to use or adopt EHR technology.

The sour economy has hospitals, clinics, patients, and insurers all focused on the legal issues associated with pricing.

The panel will discuss examples of rural specialty arrangements.

Dramatic changes are afoot in the workplace.  Not only do employers have to navigate a turbulent economy, they must comply with a vastly expanded disability law and prepare for potential labor law changes that would dramatically increase union organizing.

The economy has tanked, but don't let that stop you from getting funding for your Renewable Energy projects.

This webinar will focus on the legal and contract issues, potential benefits and pitfalls related to the purchase, donation, and use of electronic medical records and practice management systems.

Fredrikson & Byron attorneys Steve Beck and David Glaser will review the pretzel logic and point out some areas of opportunities of the final physician fee schedule rule, especially focusing on how the new rules will impact diagnostic service ventures.

Fredrikson & Byron attorneys David Glaser and Lousene Hoppe discuss what hospitals and clinics need to know about RAC audits.

Fredrikson & Byron attorneys Karen Schanfield and Bob Boisvert discuss practical strategies for handling employment terminations, steps employers can take to reduce the likelihood of liability, and the unique requirements that apply when two or more employees are terminated.

Fredrikson & Byron attorneys Gail Brandt and Kit Friedemann will discuss the new Stark rules and their potential impact on current and future arrangements that involve physicians and entities furnishing designated health services ("DHS") under the Stark Law.

Fredrikson & Byron attorneys Steven Beck and Ryan Johnson will lead a discussion on gain sharing, or "shared savings" programs continuing evolution in the government's regulatory approach.

CD discusses interpretation of CMS policy and explain where we disagree with conclusions reached by some MACs/Carriers.

CD covers important issues for health care providers to consider when dealing with third-party payors.

With government regulation on a perpetual increase, what legal issues should cause hospital and clinic administrators to lie awake at night?

During this webinar, we will discuss EMTALA's call coverage requirements for hospitals and physicians, possibilities and drawbacks to paying for physician call coverage, options physician practices may have to hire other physicians to provide call coverage, and related legal complications.

So often in today's busy environment, physicians and physician extenders do not get sufficient feedback on their coding and documentation.  This can be for a variety of reasons.  Nonetheless, it is crucial to have a robust program in place for monitoring and feedback.  This webinar will focus on what you should examine, how often you should conduct reviews, and effective methods of communications.

Audits and investigations are now commonplace in the health care industry. David Glaser will discuss how you can lower audit risks and defend yourself when there is an audit. He will discuss how to respond when government agents or payers' auditors contact your practice, how you can analyze your audit risk, and tips for determining when you may be under review.

This webinar will describe the opportunities and potential roadblocks in setting up and operating an ASC, including regulatory safe harbors, physician participation, ownership structure, surveying issues, and other matters important for hospitals or physician groups considering starting or participating in an ASC.

The 2008 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule makes significant revisions to the rules regarding purchased diagnostic tests and interpretations.  These anti-markup rules are very poorly written but it appears the changes may affect the way physicians bill for diagnostic tests even if the diagnostic equipment is wholly owned by the physician group.

This webinar will explore key workplace issues affecting healthcare employers, with a focus on negligence (credentialing, hiring, supervision, retention), labor (the impact of Kentucky River and other recent NLRB decisions), and employment (update on new EEO-1 requirements, OFCCP audits, and legislative developments).  Join this webinar to ensure that your organization's HR strategies are aligned with current rules and regulations.

During this webinar, we'll use concrete examples to explore the impact of the final Stark III regulations on various physician recruitment and retention exceptions.  We will also review the proposed changes to the Stark regulations from the 2008 Physician Fee Schedule (also covered during our August 22 webinar) and use hypothetical scenarios to illustrate how these proposed revisions may affect existing physician referral relationships.

This webinar will review the various types of relationships drug and device manufacturers seek to establish with physicians, including marketing, educational program sponsorships, consulting agreements, and foundation donations.  It will also address the legal and ethical concerns physicians must consider when entering into transactions with these companies, including the antikickback law, tax exemption issues, recent enforcement trends and press attention.

This webinar will analyze the proposed Stark law revisions.  On July 12, 2007, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the proposed 2008 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, which proposes significant changes to the Stark law, the reassignment and purchased diagnostic test rules and the IDTF Performance Standards. If adopted, these proposed changes would dramatically affect the structure of various arrangements that are common among health care providers.

This webinar will cover the recent history of convenience care clinics or "retail medicine," and address the legal issues these providers must consider, including the range of clinical services, scope of practice issues, entity structure, corporate practice of medicine, licensure, fraud and abuse, and advertising laws.

This webinar covered the issues both sides should consider when entering into a professional service agreement. 

This webinar covered the issues both sides should consider when purchasing or selling a professional practice. 

This webinar covered the hot issues in clinical trial contracting and the key negotiation points in study agreements.

This webinar will help you review and evaluate your current compliance activities.

HIPAA requires covered entities to adopt and implement policies and procedures for compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. This template set of policies and procedures has been updated to incorporate the changes to the HIPAA regulations published on January 25, 2013. This template does not incorporate state law requirements. Covered entities should review these policies carefully and customize the language to their specific organizations.

HIPAA requires covered entities to adopt and implement policies and procedures for compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. This template set of policies and procedures has been updated to incorporate the changes to the HIPAA regulations published on January 25, 2013. This template also incorporates Iowa state law requirements. Covered entities should review these policies carefully and customize the language to their specific organizations.

HIPAA requires covered entities to adopt and implement policies and procedures for compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. This template set of policies and procedures has been updated to incorporate the changes to the HIPAA regulations published on January 25, 2013. This template also incorporates Minnesota state law requirements. Covered entities should review these policies carefully and customize the language to their specific organizations.

HIPAA requires covered entities to adopt and implement policies and procedures for compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules. This template set of policies and procedures has been updated to incorporate the changes to the HIPAA regulations published on January 25, 2013. This template also incorporates Wisconsin state law requirements. Covered entities should review these policies carefully and customize the language to their specific organizations.

HIPAA requires covered entities to enter into business associate agreements with their business associates.  This template business associate agreement has been updated to incorporate the requirements of the new HIPAA regulations published on January 25, 2013.

HIPAA requires covered entities to post and distribute a Notice of Privacy Practices describing how the covered entity may use and disclose protected health information and individual patients’ rights with respect to their protected health information. This template Notice of Privacy Practices has been updated to incorporate the changes to the HIPAA regulations published on January 25, 2013. This template does not incorporate state law requirements. Covered entities should review this template carefully and update it specifically for their organizations.

HIPAA requires covered entities to post and distribute a Notice of Privacy Practices describing how the covered entity may use and disclose protected health information and individual patients’ rights with respect to their protected health information. This template Notice of Privacy Practices has been updated to incorporate the changes to the HIPAA regulations published on January 25, 2013. This template also incorporates Iowa state law requirements. Covered entities should review this template carefully and update it specifically for their organizations.

HIPAA requires covered entities to post and distribute a Notice of Privacy Practices describing how the covered entity may use and disclose protected health information and individual patients’ rights with respect to their protected health information. This template Notice of Privacy Practices has been updated to incorporate the changes to the HIPAA regulations published on January 25, 2013. This template also incorporates Minnesota state law requirements. Covered entities should review this template carefully and update it specifically for their organizations.

HIPAA requires covered entities to post and distribute a Notice of Privacy Practices describing how the covered entity may use and disclose protected health information and individual patients’ rights with respect to their protected health information. This template Notice of Privacy Practices has been updated to incorporate the changes to the HIPAA regulations published on January 25, 2013. This template also incorporates Wisconsin state law requirements. Covered entities should review this template carefully and update it specifically for their organizations.