The Anti-Kickback Statute: Enforcement and Recent Updates

The Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) remains one of the government's main tools for policing healthcare fraud and abuse. This 60-minute Anti-Kickback Statute webinar looks at recent cases and enforcement actions brought by the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) and its law enforcement partners.

After a short review of the AKS itself, the session covers the safe harbors, with a focus on the safe harbor for coordinated care and associated value-based arrangements. It also reviews recent OIG Advisory Opinions and relevant court cases, so you can see how the OIG and the courts view AKS compliance and how violations are handled.

• Explain the elements of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute
• Identify the safe harbors and exceptions that offer protection
• Describe how the courts and the OIG view AKS compliance
• Review recent enforcement actions by the OIG and its law enforcement partners
• Explain how courts deal with AKS violations

• The Anti-Kickback Statute
• Anti-kickback safe harbors, including coordinated care and value-based arrangements
• OIG Advisory Opinions
• Enforcement actions taken by the OIG and its law enforcement partners
• Relevant case law

Many practices that are routine in other industries are crimes under federal healthcare fraud and abuse laws. Together with Stark II, the federal physician anti-referral law, the AKS is also used as a basis for actions under the False Claims Act.

This webinar is for hospital executives, physicians, practice managers and other provider executives who take part in and receive payment from Medicare, Medicaid and programs such as TriCare. You'll learn the elements of the AKS and the exceptions and safe harbors you can rely on.

• Hospital executives, particularly CEO's, COO's, CFO's, CNO's, and CMO's
• Physicians
• Physician practice managers
• Other healthcare provider executives

William Mack Copeland, MS, JD, PhD, LFACHE, practices health care law in Cincinnati at the firm of Copeland Law, LLC, where he is president and CEO. He is also president of Executive & Managerial Development Group, a consulting entity providing compliance and other fraud and abuse related services. A graduate of Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Bill is a frequent author and speaker on health law topics. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, American, Ohio and Cincinnati Bar Associations. A former hospital chief executive officer, he is a life fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. He was awarded the American College of Health Care Executives Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award in 2007.