Speakers:
Co-hosted with Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA)
Agenda
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Registration / Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. Welcoming Remarks
8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Physician Compliance
How physicians run afoul of the law and how best for them to "stay out of trouble."
8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Physician Compliance
How physicians run afoul of the law and how best for them to "stay out of trouble."
Michael McGovern, Partner, Ropes & Gray
9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. Recruitment and Employment
Current employment issues and ways to recruit physicians within the regulatory boundaries.
Current employment issues and ways to recruit physicians within the regulatory boundaries.
Timothy McCrystal, Partner, Ropes & Gray
Diane Patrick, Partner, Ropes & Gray
Diane Patrick, Partner, Ropes & Gray
10:45 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Incentive Compensation
Quality initiatives and other issues relating to innovative programs designed to align hospital, physician and payor incentives. In addition, a review of gain sharing arrangements and the new proposed rules on incentive compensation.
Quality initiatives and other issues relating to innovative programs designed to align hospital, physician and payor incentives. In addition, a review of gain sharing arrangements and the new proposed rules on incentive compensation.
Daniel Roble, Partner, Ropes & Gray
Stephen Warnke, Partner, Ropes & Gray
Stephen Warnke, Partner, Ropes & Gray
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch Discussion - Health Care Reform Post November Elections
Introductory Remarks
12:00 p.m. - 12:15 p.m. Bruce Auerbach, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., President, Massachusetts Medical Society
Special Guest Speakers
12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Perspective on Barack Obama's Health Care Platform
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the department of economics and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
12:15 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Perspective on Barack Obama's Health Care Platform
David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics in the department of economics and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
12:45 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Perspective on John McCain's Health Care Platform
Thomas Scully, Senior Counsel, Alston & Bird (former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - 2001 - 2003)
1:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Q&A
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