Health Care

The following session took place during the Winter Leadership Conference in December 2023. This panel will focus on senior care and living facilities, and the financial pressures in the marketplace that are currently presenting challenges to their business models in the U.S. and other jurisdictions. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.

Materials are available here.

Speakers:

Suzanne A. Koenig
SAK Healthcare | Riverwoods, Ill.
Charles Phiri
CP Advisers (PTY) LTD | Johannesburg, South Africa
Robert M. Schechter
Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C. | Morristown, N.J.
John E. Thomas
Squire Patton Boggs | Washington, D.C.

The following session took place during Caribbean Insolvency Symposium in February 2022. This panel will discuss the current and post-pandemic view of the impact of mandatory vaccinations on post-acute care, including the relaxation of the three-day rule on quality of staffing, bracing for changes in the future of infection control, the effects of cost structures from PPE expenditures, the movement toward home health care, visitation limitations and their psychological effects on patients, patient care ombudsmen and their usefulness, the impact of COVID-19 on private equity and varying facets of post-acute care, and insolvency and exit strategies for health care providers. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.

Speakers:

Frank P. Terzo, Moderator
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Richard T. Arrowsmith
FTI Consulting, Inc.; Washington, D.C.
Samuel R. Maizel
Dentons; Los Angeles
Hon. Gregory R. Schaaf
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (E.D. Ky.); Lexington

The following session took place during Caribbean Insolvency Symposium in February 2017. This panel will explore a review of Health City Cayman Islands and its potential insights for U.S. soaring medical costs, the health care impact of the Zika virus throughout the Caribbean nations, and an update on Puerto Rico’s health care industry and other hot health care insolvency issues. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.

Speakers:

Hon. Brian K. Tester, Moderator
U.S. Bankruptcy Court (S.D. Fla.); Miami
Melissa Davis
KapilaMukamal; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Samuel R. Maizel
Dentons; Los Angeles
Tiffany D. Payne
BakerHostetler, Orlando, Fla.
Frank P. Terzo
GrayRobinson, P.A.; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

The following session took place during Caribbean Insolvency Symposium in February 2019. What are critical-access hospitals, and why are they important? This panel discusses alternative solutions to producing additional cash flow for failing hospitals, which need to be closely scrutinized by health care professionals familiar with licensing, reimbursement, anti-kickbacks and patient-brokering limitations. The panel also covers violations of the False Claims Act, Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute, as well as state law cases on patient-brokering and the questioning of medical necessity, clinical laboratory outreach programs, physician employment arrangements involving telemedicine, prescription programs and compounding, criminal statutes and DOJ/state regulator issues, how to reorganize legally, dealing with CMS (Medicare/Medicaid), nongovernmental and third-party commercial payers during a restructuring, and general rules on pass-through billing for outreach programs. All sessions from this conference can be accessed at https://cle.abi.org/.

Speakers:

Frank P. Terzo
Nelson Mullins Broad and Cassel LLP; Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Carol L. Fox
GlassRatner Advisory & Capital Group LLC; Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Elizabeth A. Green
Baker Hostetler; Orlando, Fla.
John Rowland
Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PA; Nashville, Tenn.
Melissa Scott
Change Healthcare, Indianapolis