Due Diligence for Compensation Compliance: Mitigating Risk in Financial Relationships and Healthcare Transactions

Ms. Ferrari is a member of Hancock Daniel’s corporate healthcare group, where she focuses on issues related to transactional and enterprise compensation planning, governance and review, particularly issues related to fair market value and commercial reasonableness. Although her past experience encompasses a multitude of regulatory, transactional, governance and investigation matters, Ms. Ferrari is known especially for her work in recruitment and retention of highly compensated thought leader physicians and executives; and incentive payment distributions through ACOs and clinically integrated networks to advance value-based care initiatives. She has worked extensively with clients navigating the intersection of regulatory and financial considerations in clinical research, including agreements for funding and support services and the related issues of contracting and compliance; transactional due diligence for compensation compliance; and navigating the intersection of compensation and antitrust issues. Ms. Ferrari's expertise also includes recruitment, compensation and procurement governance for “essential” hospitals such as public, rural, academic and pediatric hospitals.

Ms. Jacobs focuses her practice in the area of healthcare transactions. Calling upon her years of dedicated experience, she provides practical, pragmatic advice to help her clients achieve their strategic goals. Within the highly regulated health care industry, Ms. Jacobs advises clients, including hospitals, health systems, AMCs and large physician groups, on transactions. She serves as a regulatory adviser, providing fraud and abuse analysis in the context of a deal and ensuring her clients remain compliant with the regulations that govern health care transactions.

Mr. Wade has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry and counsels clients on fraud and abuse issues, fair market value, commercial reasonableness and developing, monitoring, and documenting effective healthcare compliance programs. He serves clients nationally as a compliance professional and assists in negotiating and implementing corporate integrity agreements and in documenting and defending financial arrangements being of fair market value and commercially reasonable between healthcare providers. Mr. Wade has represented healthcare providers, including hospitals, large health systems, and referring physicians in such matters and has also represented healthcare clients under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Office of Inspector General.