A Physician's Guide to Survival

The Changing Healthcare Industry:

A Physician’s Guide To SURVIVAL

an educational seminar

Adapting to Regulation Changes

Mitigating Electronic Health Records Compliance Risks

Adjusting to the Affordable Care Act

Confronting Economic Credentialing Maximizing Hospital/Physician Relationships

S u n d a y, J u n e 2 3 , 2 0 1 3

Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza, San Juan, Puerto Rico

seminar AGENDA

Legislative Update with Charles R. Spies, J.D. 8:00am – 8:45am

Learn how to identify potential legal challenges that may affect your practice and discover actions you can take to adapt successfully to the changing healthcare environment. This important update covers recent and prospective legislative and regulatory changes impacting the day-today practices of physicians throughout the country.

Charles Spies is the leader of Clark Hill’s national Political Law practice, as well as the Member in Charge of Clark Hill’s Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Spies has over a decade of experience providing strategic counsel at the highest levels in Washington, and he counsels a broad range of individuals and entities nationwide confronting challenges and opportunities at the intersection of political and issue campaigns, government ethics, law and public policy.

Strategies for Confronting Economic Credentialing with Charles E. Murphy, J.D. 8:45am – 9:30am

Learn to identify the use of economic credentialing by facilities and receive specific strategies on how to minimize its impact on your medical practice and your ability to provide optimal care to patients. Mr. Murphy will provide an overview of economic credentialing and its use by facilities in granting or denying privileges to physicians.

Mr. Murphy has represented physicians in cases involving staff privileges and credentialing, participation in managed care networks, hospital contracts, shareholder disputes, peer review, state certification requirements, and licensing board hearings. He has served as an arbitrator in a physician staff privilege hearing within Henry Ford Hospital and has represented foreign medical school graduates before the Education Commission For Foreign Medical Graduates. He obtained a permanent injunction against the State of Michigan for ABPS certified radiologists who were denied reading privileges for mammograms.

Break 9:30am – 9:45am Electronic Health Record (EHR) Compliance with Neda M. Ryan, J.D. 9:45am – 10:30am

Ms. Ryan will describe the opportunities and risks of implementing an Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, including the rewards and penalties under Medicare and Medicaid’s reimbursement for physicians who do or do not implement a certified EHR by 2015. Also covered will be mitigation of EHR compliance risk and management strategies to help avoid errors that could lead to malpractice claims, audits, or breaches in confidentiality.

Ms. Ryan practices in all areas of health care law, assisting clients with transactional and corporate matters; health care litigation matters; providing counsel regarding compliance, fraud and abuse, and reimbursement matters; and representing providers and suppliers in third

EHR Compliance with Neda M. Ryan, J.D. (continued) party payor audit appeals. Specifically, Ms. Ryan also devotes a significant portion of her practice to counseling healthcare billing and management companies on matters affecting their business practices as well as physician group practices.

Affordable Care Act with Gregory W. Moore, J.D. 10:30am – 11:55am

Are you ready to practice in a bundled payment world? Few can survive this changing environment without adopting new strategies to align with the Affordable Care Act’s triple aim of 1) improving the experience of care; 2) improving the health of populations; and 3) reducing per capita costs.

We are seeing shifts across the integrated delivery models like the Patient Centered Medical Home and the Accountable Care Organization. A review of many of these models and the strategic benefits (or lack thereof) will guide us to predicting the future of healthcare, what we can expect and how we can maximize our benefit.

Gregory W. Moore chairs Clark Hill’s National Healthcare Group. He has provided counsel to health care providers ranging from sole physicians to the largest hospital systems. His practice covers the spectrum of regulatory, transactional and litigation services, focusing on health reform matters, joint ventures, managed care, regulatory compliance, labor and employment matters, and international collaboration and business ventures. Mr. Moore was named to Indiana’s List of Who’s Who Behind the Scenes in Health Care in 2004, and he has lectured around the globe on the health care industry and reform, global health care delivery, and behavioral health care matters.

Break 11:55am – 12:10pm Hospital-Physician Alignment Strategies with Peter Domas, J.D. 12:10pm – 1:00pm

Learn specific strategies to help ensure successful adaptation to the evolving healthcare environment. Covered will be nationwide trends in hospital-physician relationships, pros and cons of hospital-physician alignment models, and pressures causing changes in the industry.

Mr. Domas’s career focuses extensively on issues facing the healthcare industry. Prior to entering the practice of law, he directed the Midwest’s contract compliance audit operations for a national service company whose clients include numerous national, local and government insurance providers. Mr. Domas is also a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Michigan and a Registered Certified Public Account in the State of Illinois.

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