Physician Recruitment: Ensuring Regulatory Compliance, Key Considerations, Minimizing Risks in Recruiting

The pandemic has been a long battle, particularly for healthcare providers, who have experienced significant burnout. The high turnover in the healthcare profession has created significant challenges for healthcare entities, and physician recruitment is a top-of-mind concern.

Counsel for hospitals and healthcare entities can minimize liability exposure and penalties for improper recruitment by drafting, implementing, and evaluating physician recruitment deals to comply with the Stark self-referral rule and the Anti-Kickback statute.

Listen as our authoritative panel of healthcare attorneys examines physician recruitment trends and challenges. The panel will also address the regulatory constraints on physician recruitment, including Stark and AKS, and primary considerations in physician recruitment. The panel will also offer best practices to implement effective recruitment agreements and minimize legal risk with physician hires.

1. Physician recruitment trends and challenges
2. Regulatory constraints on physician recruitment
   1. Stark Law
   2. Anti-Kickback statute
3. Creating effective recruitment policies and agreements
4. Minimizing risks in physician recruitment
   1. Implement compliance program
   2. Evaluate current physician recruitment deals
   3. Common issues and open issues in physician recruitment

The panel will review these and other essential questions:

• What are the regulatory challenges facing healthcare providers in recruiting physicians?
• How can recruitment agreements be structured to avoid violating federal and state laws and regulations?
• What best practices can counsel employ to facilitate successful physician recruitment and minimize the legal risks?