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Healthcare Fraud Fundamentals

What You and Your Staff Need to Know about the Federal False Claims Act

Location: Your office or conference room (no need to travel!)

Date : Audio CD Available

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Hosted By : The Beard Group Law and Business Publishers and Nightingale's Healthcare News

This conference will include:

Protect Your Organization from Penalties, Whistleblower Actions, and Loss of Medicare/Medicaid Reimbursement

After a record year of enforcement ($1.3 billion in settlements in 2006 from hospitals and health systems), federal and state agencies are developing even more resources to attack healthcare fraud.

Do you and your staff understand your risks and have a solid compliance program in place?

Invest in this Audio CD (recorded November 2007) to learn how even inadvertent actions can trigger fraud allegations. Your instructors will look at both sides of the law providing a plaintiffs view and a defendants view as they walk through the False Claims Act and the examine the key provisions every healthcare executive, compliance officer, and legal counsel should know.

You'll learn:
How the False Claims Act has evolved as a weapon for federal enforcement
What types of enforceable actions fall under the False Claims Act
Level of intent required under the False Claims Act
Potential consequences of violating the law
Role and power of whistleblowers
What procedures apply in a False Claims Act case
Common defenses to False Claims Act allegations
Protections for employees
Protections for employers: defending retaliation claims

Who Should Attend:
This practical program is designed for in-house and private attorneys, executive officers, healthcare compliance officers, and others who must advise and protect their clients, institutions and themselves from False Claims Act allegations and fraud and abuse risks.

Speaker(s):

	B. Scott McBride Baker Hostetler
Scott McBride focuses his practice on the healthcare industry. He represents hospitals, academic medical centers, physician groups and other healthcare clients in federal and state regulatory matters with an emphasis on compliance and fraud and abuse laws. He represents clients in False Claims Act litigation and complex fraud investigations, as well as matters related to civil monetary penalties, Stark and anti-kickback laws, corporate oversight, and exclusion from participation in federal healthcare programs. He counsels clients in comprehensive compliance matters, including analyzing and advising clients on internal investigations, self-disclosures and repayment matters. He also counsels various healthcare entities in the implementation, operation, and review of corporate compliance plans. Scott advises clients on Medicare, Medicaid, and other government reimbursement, coverage and payment laws and regulations. He represents and counsels hospitals, academic medical centers, clinics, physician groups, and other clients regarding various issues, including matters involving: FDA compliance; clinical trials; grant compliance; investigational devices; overpayments; false claims; Stark law; anti-kickback; charity care; FQHC requirements; provider-based requirements; direct and indirect graduate medical education; teaching physician rules; conditions of participation; and other billing and payment issues. He represents physician groups, hospitals, and other clients in business transactions and financial arrangements, including joint ventures, residency programs, billing services, physician recruitment, professional services and other contracted services. He also represents clients in healthcare matters before state and federal agencies and through administrative appeals. He has represented clients in administrative appeals on issues related to disproportionate share payments, licensing, teaching physician billing, clinical laboratory rules and EMTALA. Scott has been named a "Texas Rising Star" since 2004 by Law & Politics and the publishers of Texas Monthly. He was named as an "Outstanding Fraud and Compliance Lawyer" in 2005 and as an "Outstanding Young Healthcare Lawyer" in 2004 by Nightingale's Healthcare News. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the Health Care Compliance Association, the State Bar of Texas, and the Houston Bar Association. He has served as a past Director and is the current President 2006-2007 for the Texas Gulf Coast Chapter of HFMA.
	Daniel W. Packard Packard, Packard & LaPray
Daniel W. Packard is a partner with the Beaumont, TX, law firm of Packard, Packard & LaPray. His practice covers Qui Tam issues as well as medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, serious injuries, and employment law. He is certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Healthcare Fraud Fundamentals


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