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2009 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

Updates and Insights on the New Rule: CMS Speaks

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Enjoy an insightful Audio CD (recorded mid-December 2008) on the major changes and clarifications contained in the 2009 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, published in November 2008 by CMS.

Among other new requirements, The 2009 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule includes:

- Signficant changes to the Anti-Markup Rule (also referred to as the purchased diagnostic test rule),

- A new requirement for mobile entities performing diagnostic testing which are now required to enroll as independent diagnostic testing facilities,

- Adding outpatient speech-language pathology services to the list of designated health services (DHS) for purposes of the Stark Law.

In this approximately 90-minute Audio CD, these and other critical issues are examined by key officials from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the health care law firm of Garfunkel, Wild & Travis (GWT), P.C.

The GWT panelists provide an overview of the new changes and pose questions to the CMS officials concerning their practical application to a variety of situations and provider types. The CMS panelists provide insight into CMSs interpretation of these new regulations.

Speaker(s):

	Hayden S. Wool Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C.
Hayden S. Wool is a partner at Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C., where his practice includes the structuring of hospital-physician relationships, physician group relationships, review of the structure of business transactions, and issues regarding proper reimbursement for healthcare activities. He has particular expertise in the application of federal and state laws governing self-referral (Stark Law), anti-kickback, fee-splitting, and professional misconduct.
	Karen Ostad Morrison & Forester, LLP
Karen Ostad is a partner in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP and a member of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group. Ms. Ostad has extensive experience in representing significant stakeholders in large and complex U.S. and multinational insolvency proceedings, including Chapter 11 and Chapter 15 proceedings, and out of court restructurings of distressed companies. She advises on both the corporate and litigation aspects of restructurings. Ms. Ostad was recently featured in an exposé published by The Deal entitled Breaking Ground, which recognized her precedent-setting work in the cross-border restructuring area.
No Image	Kristin Bohl Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Kristin Bohl is an attorney and a Clinical Nurse Consultant for the Division of Technical Payment Policy within the Center for Medicare Management at CMS. This division is responsible for developing policy and regulations related to the physician self-referral law, issuing advisory opinions regarding the same, overseeing enforcement of Medicare-approved transplant centers, and handling a variety of statutory and regulatory Medicare payment issues.
	Lisa Ohrin Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
Lisa Ohrin has practiced health law for 13 years in a variety of settings and specialties. She currently is the Director of the Division of Technical Payment Policy within the Center for Medicare Management at CMS. This division is responsible for developing policy and regulations related to the physician self-referral law, issuing advisory opinions regarding the same, overseeing enforcement of Medicare-approved transplant centers, and handling a variety of statutory and regulatory Medicare payment issues. Previously, Lisa worked for an integrated hospital system, national long term care provider, private law firm, the University of Maryland School of Law, and a Harvard teaching hospital, where she focused primarily on Medicare reimbursement issues. In addition to her health law practice, Lisa teaches law school courses and seminars on general health care law, the physician-patient relationship, Medicare law, long term care law, and the practice of health law.
	Steven J. Chananie Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C.
Steven J. Chananie is a partner at Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C., and the head of the firms Compliance and White Collar Defense Practice Group. In his practice, he represents many health care providers, helping them to set up comprehensive compliance programs and advising them on regulatory and fraud and abuse issues. His clients include hospitals, faculty practice plans, laboratories (both independent and hospital-based), physician practices, nursing homes, and home health agencies.

2009 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule


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