Health Reform ACO Workshop Gives Industry Some Hope, but What Should ACOs Do in the Meantime to Comply with Fraud and Abuse Laws?

Many health care organizations are stuck between a rock a hard place. The health reform act encourages industry integration through the development of contractual ACOs. However, the fraud and abuse laws might prevent some of those very same activities. In the following article, John Liethen and Kari Bomash identify three things that health care organizations can do now to create ACOs and take advantage of the health reform act shared savings provisions, while waiting for regulators to clarify what may be acceptable ACO structures under the fraud and abuse laws.

Read Dorsey Partner John Liethen and Associate Kari Bomash's full article here. This article originally appeared in the November 19th edition of HealthLaw 360 and is reprinted with permission.