Teaching Hospital Medicare Reimbursement Challenges: What You Need to Know Right Now

Partner Lawrence Vernaglia is speaking at the American Health Lawyers Association’s (AHLA) Legal Issues Affecting Academic Medical Centers and Other Teaching Institutions, January 29-30, 2009 in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Vernaglia is speaking on January 30, 2009 from 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. with Gregory N. Etzel from Baker & Hostetler LLP. Their session is titled “Teaching Hospital Medicare Reimbursement Challenges: What You Need to Know Right Now.” Their topic includes:

• GME/IME litigation update
  
  
  
  
  
  • Recent federal court cases and administrative decisions relating to graduate medical education programs
    
  • Case law impact on future challenges to CMS GME policy
    
  • GME litigation issues “on the horizon”
  
  
• Preserving reimbursement issues under the new PRRB Rules
  
  
  
  
  
  • The dramatically revised appeals process with highlights on changes requiring immediate attention
    
  • Steps that must be taken immediately to preserve jurisdiction over critical reimbursement disputes
    
  • Preserving “dissatisfaction” under the new rules in order to obtain PRRB jurisdiction
    
  • Special appeal considerations for GME/IME issues (e.g. prior and penultimate year impacts)