Legal Issues

  Physician Advocacy Program

Publications:

1. 2011 Government and Legal Affairs Agenda (member log-in required)


2. “Legal Primer on Entering Contracts and Practice Management Issues” by Charles J. Assini, Jr., Esq. (member log-in required)


3. “How to Purchase Malpractice Insurance Policy” by Charles J. Assini, Jr., Esq.


4. “Office-Based Surgery Accreditation Lagging in Spite of July 2009 Deadline” by Donald Moy, Esq.


5. Residents Practice Management Program sponsored by the Strong Memorial Hospital’s Department of Anesthesiology (Rochester), on September 17, 2009. See below links.

      First, please register as a non-URMC User at:
      http://mediasite.urmc.edu/MediaSiteRequest/index.aspx
      or, as a URMC User at:
      http://mediasite.urmc.edu/MediaSiteRequest/index.aspx?Login=1

      NOTE: Enter Media Site Passkey at the very bottom of the form: anesthpm08

      Then log in at: 
      http://mediasite.urmc.edu

1. Scher v. Oxford Class Arbitration


2. “Glassman v. ProHealth Ambulatory Surgery Center; Court of Appeals of New York Decision June 3, 2010 (member log-in required)


3. ASA Renews Request for Action from OIG on “Company Model” - June 16, 2010 http://www.asahq.org/news/asanews061610.htm

ASA has submitted a letter to the Office of Inspector General (OIG) renewing its March 19, 2009, request for a Special Advisory Bulletin regarding the “company model.”  A recent independent legal analysis published in the CCH Health Care Compliance Letter (reprinted with permission) supports ASA’s position that the “company model” potentially violates the Federal anti-kickback and self-referral provisions of the Social Security Act.

• OIG “Company Model” Letter – June 16, 2010
• ASA’s Letter to OIG – March 19, 2009
• OIG’s Acknowledgment – April 23, 2009