Real Talk: How the Revised Stark and AKS Rules Will Impact Health Industry Compliance

• Introductions
• Background on AKS and Stark
• Minefield of risks in health care industry
• OIG’s AKS and CMP law changes
• CMS’s Stark Law changes
• Implications
• Fact patterns/hypotheticals

Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes
Recorded: January 12, 2021

In closing out 2020, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)'s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) published historic revisions to regulations governing the federal physician self-referral law (Stark Law), Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS), and beneficiary inducement Civil Monetary Penalties (CMP) laws. These long-awaited revisions attempt to tackle road blocks to care coordination and value-based services. But how will these changes impact health industry compliance? What new relationships or innovation in the industry do these revisions allow? What will these regulations continue to restrict? What are the best practices for compliance teams looking at setting up new "value based arrangements"? Will there be any unintended consequences of these rules? What implications, if any, will the new rules have for fraud, waste, and abuse investigations and enforcement actions?

Join representatives from the OIG and health care compliance attorneys, both in-house and outside counsel, as we take a practical, real-world look at how the revised Stark, AKS and CMP law regulations will impact the industry. This presentation will use real-word examples, hypotheticals and address potential government scrutiny and enforcement risk. The panel will also highlight "best practices" for health care industry compliance professionals in the brave new world of value-based care and coordination.

This program was recorded on January 12th, 2021.

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