Fort Lauderdale partner Frank Terzo will serve as a panelist on the “Stayin’ Alive… Debt Restructuring for Critical Access Hospitals” webinar sponsored by the Health Care Committee of the American Bankruptcy Institute on May 1, 2019. The webinar will provide members with an overview of the unique issues faced by small rural hospital designated as “critical access hospitals” (CAHs) by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Topics discussed by the panel will include:

• Debt restructuring challenges faced by CAHs due to their narrow margins and cost-based reimbursement model;
• Alternative solutions to cash flow for CAHs through expansion of medical services, large group physician employment agreements, telemedicine and operational efficiencies;
• Legal expansion programs in a CAH environment and illegal schemes perpetrated by bad actors who take expansion too far;
• The roadmap to reorganization for CAHs who find themselves amid allegations of violations of the False Claims Act, Stark Law and Anti-Kickback federal and state laws and in the snarls of a healthcare fraud investigation with either CMS, Medicaid, OIG or commercial payers’ SIU departments; and
• How to overcome the overpayment liability dilemma.