Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute - Price Transparency Rule Compliance, Informing the Patient, and Protecting the Hospital’s Commercial Interests: Mutually Exclusive Concepts?

In-depth breakout sessions at the Physicians and Hospitals Law Institute will focus on legal challenges faced by physicians and their counsel, the legal challenges faced by hospitals and health systems and their counsel, and the legal issues of interest to both segments of the health care delivery system. Topic areas covered at this program include physician arrangements, compliance, fair market value, fraud, transactions, medical staff issues, and our featured health information and technology track.

Joe's session, Price Transparency Rule Compliance, Informing the Patient, and Protecting the Hospital’s Commercial Interests: Mutually Exclusive Concepts?, will touch on the following topics:

• CMS’s recently published Pricing Transparency Rules and related litigation

• The antitrust considerations: Increased competition or vehicle for collusion

• Implications for Medicare compliance

• Implications for relationships with payers

• Other potential approaches for increasing transparency