Structuring and Managing Oncology Service Lines: Regulatory Challenges, Physician Employment, and More
Course Details
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On-Demand
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Health
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Wednesday, January 24, 2018
- schedule Time
1:00 PM E.T.
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90 minutes
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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This CLE course will provide guidance to counsel for healthcare facilities and physicians on managing oncology service lines. The panel will review applicable laws, regulations and other considerations to structure service lines, including physician contracts, to meet compliance requirements and avoid common pitfalls.
This presentation is focused on operational and regulatory issues that are specific to hospital/physician arrangements in medical and radiation oncology. For many hospitals, the oncology service line is one of the largest and most complex.
Oncology arrangements are varied, and many issues arise in oncology arrangements that have unique regulatory and operational challenges.
Listen as our authoritative panel closely examines the spectrum of hospital/physician oncology arrangements.
- Service line arrangements
- Model
- Payment arrangements
- Key regulatory concerns
- CMP statute
- FCA
- Employment contracts
- FMV and business considerations
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- Employment arrangements with medical and radiation oncologists and bone marrow transplant physicians
- Characteristics and structural objectives of professional services agreements (PSAs) with medical oncologists
- Consideration of practice losses that may be typical in medical oncology practices
- Methodologies for compensating employed or independent contractor medical oncologists for infusion supervision services
- Nuances of co-management arrangements for the oncology service line
- Updates on 340(b) pricing and regulatory concerns relative to the medical oncology physician
- Physician coverage arrangements (and subsidies) for radiation oncology
- Compensation arrangements and issues related to clinical trial principal investigator activities
