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Our National Seminars are designed to deliver innovative and cutting-edge solutions to the most pressing issues your physician and administrative leaders and organizations face on a daily basis. Whether your challenges are medical staff related, dealing with credentialing or peer review issues, or negotiating contracts, we have a seminar to fit your needs. Join us this season in Phoenix, Amelia Island, or New Orleans to learn from our nationally recognized faculty.

Watch Now: The Blue Cross Antitrust Class Action Settlement – Show Me the Money
Blue Cross Blue Shield recently agreed to settle antitrust claims after more than a decade of litigation. The deadline to submit a claim for a share of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Proposed Net Settlement Fund is quickly approaching. Join attorneys Dan Mulholland and Moises A. Tonoc Bonilla for this informative how-to so that you don’t miss out on the opportunity to receive a piece of the settlement fund.

What’s New in Health Law

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New Cases

A Distinction with a Difference

Taking a deep dive into the distinction between CRNAs providing anesthesia under “medical direction” versus under “medical supervision,” the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a qui tam action in a case brought by a relator under the False Claims Act, holding that the complaint failed to plausibly allege that the anesthesia LLC had submitted false claims by using the QZ billing modifier for anesthesia services provided by a CRNA. U.S. ex rel. O’Neill v. Somnia, Inc. et al.

To read more about this case and to find out what’s new in healthcare law, visit our What’s New page

Question of the Week

One of the members of our Bylaws Committee said that she heard that we shouldn’t be including our hospital’s Institutional Review Board (“IRB”) in the Bylaws with all of the other medical staff committees even though this is where it has always lived at our hospital.  Is that true?

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HortySpringer’s Contract Control Program for Hospitals and Healthcare Systems is now available!

Healthcare contracts can be challenging, but with the right support, they don’t have to be. We have teamed up with our friends from LegalSifter to offer a tailored Contract Control Program just for hospitals and health systems. This lets you review contracts you receive from others, draft new contracts using HortySpringer curated templates, negotiate agreements and manage the contracts after they’re signed. It’s a full-service solution that simplifies the entire contract process.

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