Physician Compensation After Changes to the Stark Law and Antikickback Statute Regulations

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.

Mr. Wolfe provides advice and counsel to many of the nation's largest health systems, hospitals and medical groups on a variety of health care issues. He regularly counsels clients on a national basis regarding compliance-focused physician compensation strategies. Mr. Wolfe is a frequent speaker on issues related to the physician self-referral statute (Stark Law), hospital-physician transactions, physician compensation and health care fair market value issues. Before attending law school at the University of Wisconsin, he served as a combat engineer in the United States Army.