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Economic Credentialing & Exclusive Hospital-based Contracts

Format: Audio CD-ROM (includes presentation materials)
Estimated Duration: 60 minutes
Price: $175



OVERVIEW

Hospitals have a legitimate need to consider economic and quality factors when credentialing medical staff, and to create exclusive contracts with key medical specialties. However, such credentialing and contracting must be done carefully to ensure fairness and to meet legal tests. Recorded July 17, 2008, as part of THA's seven-part series on regulatory compliance, this audioconference will help your staff understand the state and federal laws and the judicial interpretations that provide guidance to hospitals on the use of financial and quality standards in credentialing.

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Offer expires
Feb. 1, 2009.


TARGET AUDIENCE

Chief executive officers, chief financial officers, in-house counsel, risk managers and compliance officers will benefit from this audioconference.


DISCUSSION TOPICS

Overall Goal: Discuss legal considerations in hospital-based physician contracts. 

  • Compare state and federal laws that regulate hospital-medical staff relationships, including the credentialing of physicians.
  • Identify permissible practices by hospitals relating to credentialing/contracting of physicians.

FACULTY

Jerry A. Bell Jr., partner, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.
Bell is head of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s Health Law Business and Regulatory Department and practices in the firm's Austin office. He practices exclusively in the health care area, where he represents hospitals, medical schools, health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations, physician groups, and other health care entities and providers. This representation includes a wide variety of matters, including business transactions, federal and state regulatory issues, hospital medical staff matters, insurance disputes, corporate matters and general health law questions.

Debbi Johnstone, partner, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Johnstone joined the Houston office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. in 2008, and her practice focuses on the health care industry. She has worked on matters involving hospital-physician joint ventures, hospital-physician contracting, hospital acquisitions, physician practice acquisitions, physician practice management, and physician recruitment and employment. Johnstone has also focused on reimbursement matters, including all aspects of coverage and payment under Medicare and Medicaid. She has significant experience advising clients on federal and state government program anti-kickback, physician self-referral (Stark Law), false claims, civil monetary penalty and related sanctions issues. Johnstone is board certified in Health Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.


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Order online or via fax/mail. Offer expires Feb. 1, 2009.


















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