ACOs: The Final Rule and New Opportunities

Please join Squire, Sanders & Dempsey and Strategic Health Care for a timely webinar overview of the final rule released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on October 20 and the opportunities it presents for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). In the final rule, CMS made significant changes to entice providers to participate in the Medicare Shared Savings Program. Topics to be addressed include:

• ACO organization and governance
• New opportunities for rural and small community providers to create or join ACOs
• Advanced funding of ACO start-up costs
• Antitrust requirements
• CMS and Office of the Inspector General waivers
• Financial/risk sharing: insurance law implications
• Improvements to the shared savings rate
• Lower barriers to entry on quality and electronic health record (EHR) metrics

Speakers

• John M. Kirsner, partner, Squire Sanders
• Peter A. Pavarini, partner, Squire Sanders
• Paul Lee, senior partner and founder, Strategic Health Care
• Marian Lowe, partner, Strategic Health Care
• Sharon Bee Cheng, senior vice president, research, Strategic Health Care

Other Related ACO Regulations Information

• Table of Contents – 42 C.F.R. Part 425 (PDF)
• ACO Final Rule – 76 F.R. 67802 (Nov. 2, 2011) (PDF)
• FTC and DOJ Final ACO Policy Statement – 76 F.R. 67026 (Oct. 28, 2011) (PDF)
• Internal Revenue Bulletin 2011-20 (PDF)
• IFR ACO Waiver – 76 F.R. 67922 (Nov. 2, 2011) (PDF)

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