Fair Market Value and Commercial Reasonableness in Hospital and Physician Transactions: Complying With Anti-Kickback and Self-Referral Laws

Ms. Barrett is a seasoned healthcare lawyer with significant experience in analyzing federal and state healthcare laws and regulations, particularly related to fraud and abuse, health system operations, medical necessity and billing and coding. She also has significant experience in compliance matters, having served as SVP, Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer for a large health system with an academic medical center. Ms. Barrett has served as General Counsel to a multi-facility health system and has held senior in-house positions in for-profit, non-profit, and public health systems. She has also spent many years in private practice providing advice and guidance to a wide variety of healthcare providers including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physicians, home health agencies, hospice providers, DME providers, labs and nursing homes. Ms. Barrett is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, as well as at the Univeristy of North Carolina at Wilmington. She holds leadership positions in the ABA's Health Law Section, as Vice Chair of eHealth, Privacy & Security, as well as Vice Chair of Ethics and Professionalism. Ms. Barrett frequently speaks and writes on a wide array of health law and compliance topics.

Mr. Bernstein has more than two decades of management experience in the provider and consulting settings and has more recently focused on strategic and valuation consulting services around provider relationships in the healthcare industry. As part of the Pinnacle leadership team, he directs our growing and highly talented team of valuation experts and leverages his extensive experience working closely with hospital systems, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers, and other healthcare providers. Prior to Pinnacle, Mr. Bernstein was a managing director of transaction advisory services and the director of valuation services for two national healthcare consulting firms where he worked with clients including law firms, hospitals, ancillary service providers, physician practices, and life sciences clients.