• Understanding the overall scope and breadth of the PPACA with respect to expanding health coverage
• Understanding the concept and mechanics of the American Health Benefits Exchange
• Understanding the scope of the Medicaid Coverage Expansion
• Issues that will impact the success or failure of the coverage expansions

• Impact of PPACA on civil liability exposure for healthcare providers, suppliers, and manufacturers
• Intersection between PPACA provisions and provider and supplier program exclusion and criminal (including Anti-Kickback and Park) prosecutions
• Compliance and risk-mitigation strategies for doing business, directly or indirectly, with Medicare and Medicaid under the new law

• The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Law 111-148 (Act), creates new potent requirements for providers and suppliers to return
• Medicare and Medicaid overpayments. Subsection 6402(d)(1) of the Act says:
  
  • If a person has received an overpayment, the person shall—
    
  • Report and return the overpayment to the Secretary [of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services], the State, an intermediary, a carrier, or a contractor, as appropriate, at the correct address; and
    
  • Notify the Secretary, State, intermediary, carrier, or contractor to whom the overpayment was returned in writing of the reason for the overpayment.
    
• In Subsection 6402(d)(2), the Act goes on to set the deadline to return the overpayment:
  
  • An overpayment must be reported and returned under paragraph (1) by the later of --
    
  • The date which is 60 days after the date on which the overpayment was identified; or
    
  • The date any corresponding cost report is due, if applicable.

• Survey results on current state of health benefits and impact of health reform
• Strategic considerations of health reform for employers
• Go forward strategies to bend the cost curve
• Health and reward strategies for 2012 and beyond

• Immediate market reforms under the PPACA (i.e. grandfathering, lifetime and annual limits; external review of benefit appeals; coverage of adult dependent children and state taxation issues) and employer responses;
• W-2 Reporting and Health Flexible Spending Account Changes
• Pay or Play Mandates and How Employers are Responding
• Update on Wellness Programs

Please check here for more Info and Updates about the Event.

Who Should Attend:
Health Services Professionals, Health Industry Advisors, Health Care Law Attorneys, Senior Corporate Management, Health Care Advisory Services Consultants, Health Policy Directors, State Health Executives/Professionals

Continuing Education Information: Please click above for details