New Value-Based Arrangement Videos!

Learn about value-based care in this video—the first in a four-part series by Sheppard Mullin partner Amanda Zablocki, who discusses the fundamentals of value-based arrangements (VBAs). Watch the series to understand the purposes behind VBAs, how to construct them, and how to meet the applicable exceptions and safe harbors, respectively, under the federal Physician Self-Referral Law (Stark) and the Anti-kickback Statute (AKS).

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• Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute Comparison
  Review this practice note from Reed Smith partner Nicole J. Aiken-Shaban, which provides an overview of AKS and Stark. Advise your healthcare organization clients on how these laws apply to both healthcare practices and businesses that receive reimbursement from federal healthcare programs. Get up to speed on each law’s key terms and definitions and their enforcement and penalty regimes.
• Stark Law: Physician Self-Referral Prohibitions
  Refresh your recollection of Stark, one of the core fraud and abuse laws with which every attorney representing healthcare organizations must be familiar. Learn Stark’s basics, changes that came following passage of the Affordable Care Act, and, importantly, the precise requirements for each exception to the law.
• Anti-kickback Safe Harbors
  Counsel medical providers and practices on conforming their business arrangements to meet one or more of the applicable AKS safe harbors. Gain insight into how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) applies the law via CMS’s commentary regarding AKS safe harbors. Get further insight through the Special Fraud Alerts issued by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.

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