STARK LAW UPDATE
Health Care Reform Changes in the Stark Law:
How to Ensure Compliance

What You Will Learn:

The health care reform laws added several new Stark Law requirements and changes, including requiring CMS to create a Stark self-disclosure protocol to resolve Stark Law violations. Learn about the new Stark changes, their impact on providers, and the new process for self-disclosure of Stark violations. Also, clarify current Stark rules for amending contracts, leases, and under arrangements contracts including lithotripsy contracts.

• The changes to the Stark Law included in health care reform
• The revised self-disclosure protocol
• The types of notices that must be provided to patients using the in-office ancillary services exception
• The restrictions placed on physician ownership in hospitals
• When and how to amend physician contracts
• Requirements for leases with physicians 
• What's left of lithotripsy contracts.

About the Presenter:

Claire Turcotte is a partner in the Bricker & Eckler Health Care group, practicing in the Cincinnati-Dayton office located in West Chester. Her practice encompasses contracts and corporate transactions; Stark and fraud and abuse matters; and regulatory and compliance issues for hospitals and other health care providers, including HIPAA compliance. Claire has been nominated to the Best Lawyers in America for Health Care Law from 2009-2011.

Credits:

1.0 Continuing Legal Education for Ohio and Kentucky (both pending)

Cost:

$30, includes lunch and presentation
Registration begins at 10:45 a.m.
Lunch will be served at 11:15 a.m.
Presentation will conclude by 1:00 p.m.