Structuring Physician Incentives: Regulatory Compliance, Avoiding Potential Pitfalls

Ms. Ferrari has more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry in various counsel, consulting and leadership roles. She serves clients inside and outside of Pinnacle, providing assistance with compliance strategy, risk management, due diligence, investigations, and litigation.

Her practice experience is national in scope and includes providing transactional, operational, governance, and dispute resolution support for a broad array of nonprofit, for-profit, and governmental clients, including hospitals and health systems, physicians and physician groups, clinical laboratories, and pharmaceutical and medical device vendors, distributors, and manufacturers. She has assisted clients with structuring, documenting, managing, and, when appropriate, defending financial arrangements involving healthcare providers, often with attention to requirements and implications of the Stark Law, Anti-kickback Statute, False Claims Act, non-profit tax regulations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and/or the various state laws concerning billing, payment and corporate practice of medicine. Her work has included assisting clients with mergers and acquisitions, affiliations, joint ventures, public-private partnerships, enterprise-level compliance programs, and healthcare workforce recruitment and management arrangements, including significant incentive, independent contractor, and employment arrangements that exceed $1 million in annual compensation. Her work has also included outside general and special counsel services for healthcare clients, focusing on their contracting and compensation practices.

Ms. Jacobs focuses her practice in the area of healthcare transactions. Calling upon her years of dedicated experience, she provides practical, pragmatic advice to help her clients achieve their strategic goals. Within the highly regulated health care industry, Ms. Jacobs advises clients, including hospitals, health systems, AMCs and large physician groups, on transactions. She serves as a regulatory adviser, providing fraud and abuse analysis in the context of a deal and ensuring her clients remain compliant with the regulations that govern health care transactions.