The Anti-Kickback Statute: 2025 - Year in Review
60 Minutes
This webinar will focus on cases and enforcement actions taken by the HHS OIG and its law enforcement partners in 2025.
We will also briefly review the Anti-Kickback Statute ("AKS"), discuss safe harbors, particularly the new proposed safe harbor for coordinated care and associated value-based arrangements, and OIG Advisory Opinions that have been issued in 2025, as well as pertinent cases involving the AKS.
WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?
This program is designed for health care executives, physicians and other health care providers and their managers who participate in and receive remuneration from Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs such as TriCare. Several recent cases bring home the realization that many activities that are common in other industries are a crime under federal healthcare fraud and abuse laws.
Hospital executives, as well as physicians and/or other health care providers, should be very concerned about the potential for the government to use the Anti-Kickback Statute as one of the prime methods for enforcing the federal fraud and abuse laws. Equally concerning, along with Stark II (the federal physician anti-referral law), the Anti-Kickback Statute can be and is being used as the basis for an action brought under the Federal False Claims Act. In this webinar, you will learn about the elements of the Anti-Kickback Statute, along with the various exceptions and safe harbors that you can rely on for protection against enforcement under these laws. This is important because healthcare fraud and abuse if becoming the focus of these enforcement efforts.
AREA COVERED
- The Anti-Kickback Statute
- The Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors
- OIG Advisory Opinions
- Enforcement Actions taken by OIG and its law enforcement partners
- Pertinent Caselaw
WHO WILL BENEFIT?
- Hospital Executives, particularly CEO's, COO's, CFO's, CNO's, and CMO's
- Physicians
- Physician Practice Managers
- Other Healthcare Provider Executives
This program is designed for health care executives, physicians and other health care providers and their managers who participate in and receive remuneration from Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care programs such as TriCare. Several recent cases bring home the realization that many activities that are common in other industries are a crime under federal healthcare fraud and abuse laws.
Hospital executives, as well as physicians and/or other health care providers, should be very concerned about the potential for the government to use the Anti-Kickback Statute as one of the prime methods for enforcing the federal fraud and abuse laws. Equally concerning, along with Stark II (the federal physician anti-referral law), the Anti-Kickback Statute can be and is being used as the basis for an action brought under the Federal False Claims Act. In this webinar, you will learn about the elements of the Anti-Kickback Statute, along with the various exceptions and safe harbors that you can rely on for protection against enforcement under these laws. This is important because healthcare fraud and abuse if becoming the focus of these enforcement efforts.
- The Anti-Kickback Statute
- The Anti-Kickback Safe Harbors
- OIG Advisory Opinions
- Enforcement Actions taken by OIG and its law enforcement partners
- Pertinent Caselaw
- Hospital Executives, particularly CEO's, COO's, CFO's, CNO's, and CMO's
- Physicians
- Physician Practice Managers
- Other Healthcare Provider Executives
Speaker Profile
William Mack Copeland
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 …
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