It’s back! The hugely-popular Bittinger Law free educational webinar series for clients and friends. Listen in from the comfort of your office, the beach, wherever – you just need your laptop and/or phone. This year’s sessions are on the second Friday of every month, 30 minutes (instead of 60), starting at 12:15 instead of noon – allowing for quick cyber-attendance during a lunch break. Invite your colleagues and provide lunch in your meeting room – make a Friday lunch Uh Oh! Event of it at your company, and send us pics!
- September 9, 2016 – “Uh Oh! Our Business Associate Won’t Sign our HIPAA BA Agreement!” What you can give on and what to insist on in business associate agreement negotiations.
- October 14, 2016 – “Uh Oh! We have 3 Doctors Retiring Soon!” How physician groups create baby-boomer physician succession plans & keep their all-star physicians from jumping ship.
- November 11, 2016 – “Uh Oh! I think Employee Ernie is a Whistle Blower!” Turn high-maintenance employees into detectives who report compliance concerns to you, not an attorney.
- December 9, 2016 – “Uh Oh! Our millennial physicians are asking for WHAT for Christmas?” Key issues in physician employment agreement negotiations in light of inter-generational rifts.
- January 13, 2017 – “Uh Oh! I Have to Pay Attention to MACRA already?” What independent physician groups need to do now to prepare for MACRA.
- February 10, 2017 – “Uh Oh! I’m Liable for His Fraud?” Protecting yourself and your practice from a partner’s billing improprieties (recoupments and lawsuits).
- March 10, 2017 – “Uh Oh! What do you Mean that’s a Kickback?” Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute issues in financial arrangements in the Age of Consolidation.
- April 14, 2017 – “Uh Oh! Is That Your Final Offer?” Contract perils when physician groups consolidate with large health systems and physicians become system employees.
- May 12, 2017 – “Uh Oh! We Leaped Before We Looked!” Why setting off in a new healthcare venture or collaboration without a plan may not end up well. How strategic planning with a healthcare attorney is worth the time and investment.
