Paying Physicians for Quality and Value: A Practical Approach

Paying Physicians for Quality and Value: A Practical Approach is organized by MentorHealth and will be held on Dec 05, 2018.

Overview:

In this session, Mr. Wolfe will provide a practical advice on physician compensation models and will discuss how healthcare organizations can develop structures that allow for a gradual incorporation of quality and value-based metrics starting now.

Why should you Attend: Healthcare organizations all across the country are focused on developing physician compensation models that pay a physician for quality and value.

The webinar will touch on developing best practices for identifying potential compensation metrics and incorporating them into existing compensation plans. In particular, the webinar will describe how to cross-walking existing payor contracts to identify high impact metrics. It will also discuss how to amend existing contracts to build in a process for periodically identifying new metrics.

Applicable regulatory requirements will be covered, along with fair market value considerations, practical tips, and pitfalls that should be avoided. 

Areas Covered in the Session:

•  A brief Regulatory Overview on Value-Based Compensation(e.g., Stark, Anti-Kickback, CMP Law etc.)
•  How to Form Quality and Value Focused Committees that Engage in Metric Development
•  Processes for Documenting Fair Market Value and Commercial Reasonableness Related to Quality
•  Processes Shadowing Potential Metrics to Avoid Measurement and Compliance Issues
•  How to Amend Existing Contracts to Incorporate a Process for Periodic Metric Development

Who Will Benefit:
•  In-House Counsel
•  Health Care Compliance Officers
•  Health Care Human Resources
•  Health Care CFOs
•  Health Care Executives

Speaker Profile :

Joseph Wolfe is an attorney with Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C., the largest healthcare-focused law firm in the country. Mr. Wolfe provides advice and counsel to some of the nation's largest health systems, hospitals and medical groups on a variety of healthcare issues. He regularly counsels clients on a national basis regarding compliance-focused physician compensation and alignment strategies. He is a frequent speaker on issues related to the physician self-referral statute (Stark Law), hospital-physician transactions, physician compensation governance, and healthcare valuation issues. Before attending law school at the University of Wisconsin, he served as a combat engineer in the United States Army.

Price - $139