Physicians and their counsel will explore the role of doctors in today’s changing health care environment during the Physicians Legal Issues Conference, sponsored by the American Bar Association Health Law Section, the Chicago Medical Society and American Association for Physician Leadership, June 9-10 in Chicago.
Conference attendees will learn practical advice on handling problems relating to regulatory trends, recent changes to HCQIA, risk management issues and other legal issues.
The keynote speaker is Leemore S. Dafny, professor of strategy, director of Health Enterprise Management and the Herman Smith Research Professor in Hospital and Health Services at Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management in Evanston, Ill., who will discuss consolidation in the health care industry.
Conference highlights include:
• “The Increasing Regulatory Trend against Vertical Healthcare Integration” — A panel of experts will discuss the current regulatory environment surrounding healthcare integration transactions and the economic principles these regulations ignore.
• “Medicare Appeals and Meaningful Use” — Clarence Moore, a Medicare administrative law judge, will provide an overview of the Medicare appeal process. The speakers also will discuss how meaningful use audits work and offer guidance on the appeal of a negative audit determination.
• “Regulatory Update – OIG Initiatives, Enforcement Trends, Task Force Updates and Other Recent Developments” — This expert panel will address the latest initiatives of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) related to both civil and criminal enforcement.
• “Law and the Modern Healthcare Enterprise” — There is increasing evidence that the dominant health system of the future will be one that integrates public health into the clinical encounter. An expert panel will address how integration will likely occur.
• “Physician Workforce Shortage” — This panel of experts will address changes to the J-1 visa process and the difficulty in obtaining and maintaining physicians from this workforce pool, the status of Medicare funding of graduate medical education slots to increase the number of residency slots and training programs, as well as the imbalance of enrollment, despite significant academic and other efforts to change outdated criteria.
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