Current Best Practices for Drafting Physician Employment Agreements
Event Date:
September 16, 2025
Event Time:
10:00 AM PDT
Event Description
We’ll discuss current best practices for drafting employment agreements for your hospital, group or practice, & potential pitfalls to avoid.
Course Overview:
As health care organizations and physicians develop employment arrangements, they must carefully evaluate whether the proposed structure and financial terms comply with the regulatory requirements of fair market value, commercial reasonableness, and the prohibition on “taking into account” the volume or value of a physician’s referrals.
In this session, Dr. William Mack Copeland, an experienced healthcare attorney, will discuss best practices for negotiating and drafting employment agreements on behalf of health systems, hospitals, medical groups, and physician practices.
The 60-minute webinar will focus on regulatory requirements, key provisions, valuation considerations, and potential pitfalls that should be avoided.
Areas Covered:
- Critical components of compliant employment arrangements
- Drafting employment agreements and the related financial terms
- Modifying provider compensation plans
- Implementing pay-for-performance initiatives to promote value-based care
- Adjusting provider compensation structure in response to recent Medicare changes, including E/M work RVU adjustments
- Ensuring your compensation plan complies with current fair market value (FMV) standards
- Best practices for auditing employment agreements and identifying potential pitfalls
Why should you attend?
As medical groups and health systems pursue performance improvement, provider and executive compensation structures are being reevaluated to optimize operations and financial performance.
However, executing compensation programs is becoming increasingly challenging as groups struggle with how to succeed in value-based contracts as they transition away from fee-for-service arrangements. Other considerations include new E/M coding policies and determining fair market value (FMV).
Who will benefit:
- In-House Counsel
- Healthcare Compliance Officers
- Healthcare Human Resources
- Physician Practice Managers
- Healthcare CFO’s
- Hospital executives (CEOs, COOs, CNOs, and CMOs)
About the Instructor:
Dr. William Mack Copeland, MS, JD, Ph.D., LFACHE, practices health care law in Cincinnati at the firm of Copeland Law, LLC. He is also president of Executive & Managerial Development Group, a consulting entity providing compliance and other fraud and abuse-related services. He is a graduate of Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Will, is a frequent author and speaker on health law topics. Copeland is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, Ohio, and Cincinnati Bar Associations and is a life fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. A former hospital chief executive officer, he is also a recipient of the American College of Health Care Executives Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award.
Refund Policy:
Attendees may cancel up to two working days before the course start date and the refund will be processed within two working days.
We will process/provide a refund if the webinar is canceled. Refunds will not be given to participants who do not attend the webinar. On-demand recordings can be requested in exchange. Webinar may be canceled due to lack of enrolment or unavoidable factors. Attendees will be notified 24 hours in advance if a cancellation occurs. Substitutions can happen anytime.
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