AHLA’s annual Academic Medical Centers program, co-sponsored with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA), is designed to address the legal issues unique to teaching hospitals and academic medical centers. This program attracts in-house and outside counsel for the nation's leading teaching hospitals and provides an excellent environment for the sharing of best practices and the exploration of new issues. The general session included discussions on What Our Academic Medical Center Learned from Ebola, How Do We Continue to Teach and Treat, and the Year in Review. Breakout sessions focused on:

• How to Structure AMC/Physician Collaborations
• The Current State of Sunshine
• How to Prepare and Manage a Data Breach
• Clinical Laboratories for Teaching Hospitals and AMCs, and many more

Year in Review

Thursday, January 22, 2015, 11:15 am - 12:15 pm

Presented by Elizabeth B. Carder-Thompson

It’s been another banner year for health care developments affecting academic medical centers, from massive fraud and abuse investigative and enforcement initiatives, to ongoing health reform challenges, to dizzying developments in the world of reimbursement. Highlights of this fast-paced review covered:

• This year’s colorful crop of qui tam relators
• What’s an excessive False Claims Act fine?
• When can regulatory non-compliance turn into a false claim?
• Are internal compliance investigations privileged?
• New OIG initiatives and issuances, including a laboratory payment Special Fraud Alert
• Kickback settlements by universities, hospitals, manufacturers, and more
• Challenges to the Two Midnight rule
• Hackers, laptop thefts, unencrypted hospital backup tapes, and other minefields for health care institutions