Assessing Fair Market Value for Hospitals
September 24, 2008

SPEAKERS
Kevin P. Forster
Principal
ECG Management Consultants, Inc.

Leonard J. Henzke
Principal
ECG Management Consultants, Inc.

WEBINAR OVERVIEW
The increasing focus on physician alignment has led many hospitals to develop a range of complex and creative physician financial arrangements. While these arrangements can improve care coordination and enhance a hospital's market position, hospital executives need to take steps to address a bewildering assortment of laws and regulations including the Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark restrictions and IRS private inurement prohibitions. A crucial consideration in developing these arrangements is how to illustrate Fair Market Value (FMV), which often requires input not only from legal counsel but also requires completing complex financial analyses. This webinar provides the hospital administrator or in-house legal counsel with workable guidelines for establishing when and how to assess FMV in a variety of hospital/physician arrangements, including those involving emergency call coverage, hospital-based specialty coverage, medical directorships, and hospital-employed physicians.

About the Speakers:

Kevin P. Forster is a principal with ECG Management Consultants, Inc. Mr. Forster's consulting practice has emphasized hospital strategic planning, business development, physician-hospital relationships, and joint ventures. His recent work has focused primarily on hospital-physician joint ventures and various arrangements between physicians and hospitals (e.g., emergency department call coverage, co-management, etc.). In addition, Mr. Forster has spent considerable time working with health systems to develop and reshape their employed physician networks. In particular, Mr. Forster has focused his efforts on developing successful governance and management structures for physician networks.

Leonard J. Henzke is principal with ECG Management Consultants, Inc. Healthcare practice. His background in healthcare organizational development, strategy and operations provides him with a broad range of skills necessary to evaluate, analyze and address a variety of healthcare issues. Mr. Henzke's experience has emphasized hospital/physician alignment and strategy, financial analysis, business development and physician compensation planning.

Recording:  $259