This special series of the Governing Health podcast with SullivanCotter highlights developments in physician compensation governance and offers insight to healthcare organizations navigating the complex regulatory landscape of physician compensation arrangements.

In this episode, Monica Wallace, Partner at McDermott Will & Schulte, and Tom Trachtman, Principal at SullivanCotter, discuss how organizations can build mature, defensible governance frameworks in an era of heightened enforcement. They explore the “Big Three” federal laws (Physician Self-Referral Law a/k/a the Stark Law, Anti-Kickback Statute, and False Claims Act) and provide guidance on dual-committee oversight, fair market value standards, and governance practices that balance compliance with strategic goals.

This special series of the Governing Health podcast with SullivanCotter highlights developments in and offers support to the board’s executive compensation committee in light of the many complex operational, technical, and strategic issues that the committee confronts.

In this episode, Michael Peregrine, Bruce Greenblatt (Executive Workforce, Practice Leader, SullivanCotter), Kathy Hastings (Executive Workforce, Practice Leader, SullivanCotter), John Collins (Principal and Compensation Structure Specialist, SullivanCotter), Kerrin Slattery, and Jeff Holdvogt discuss why innovative compensation incentives are a hot topic for health systems clients and their compensation committees. During the conversation, they share insights on:

• Diversifying revenue sources and expanding income streams
• Innovation and venture businesses being pursued by non-profit healthcare organizations
• Strategies for structuring businesses by non-profits
• Differentiating compensation programs for leaders
• Risks of creating for-profit businesses while generating income from alternative non-patient care revenue sources
• Considerations for the design of the compensation program
• Key differences in payment for new and parent companies executives
• Performance metrics for new businesses
• Critical attributes of incentive programs
• Payment for executives with dual innovation business responsibilities

This episode of the Becker’s Healthcare Podcast features Megan Harkins, Director of Compliance at Innovaccer, and Sumaya Noush. Together, they discuss the fast-changing intersection of AI, healthcare, and law—covering key topics like risk, regulation, global frameworks, and the growing importance of compliance as a strategic business partner.

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Partner Sandra DiVarco discuss issues related to Medicare and the practice of law in this area. Topics include Medicare reimbursement for hospitals, various licensure requirements, EMTALA, provider-based status and site-neutral care, and the experience of practicing as an attorney in the specialized field of Medicare law.

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This special quarterly series of the Governing Health podcast with SullivanCotter highlights developments in and offers support to the board’s executive compensation committee in light of the many complex operational, technical, and strategic issues that the committee confronts.

In this episode, Michael Peregrine, Tim Cotter, Bruce Greenblatt, Kathy Hastings, and Jeff Holdvogt offer recommendations for the committee to focus on in 2025, including:

• Establishing appropriate incentive goals in an evolving health system
• Prioritizing executive succession planning/leadership development
• Keeping appraised of regulatory and market trends
• Ensuring flexibility and defensibility in committee approval processes
• Aligning key governance documents to fulfill committee fiduciary duties
• Evaluating committee reporting and coordination with other board committees
• Overseeing executive compensation in for-profit and not-for-profit ventures subsidiaries
• Considering board compensation trends in not-for-profit health systems
• Determining the need to evolve committee composition
• Addressing executive compensation scrutiny

McDermott Partner and head of the Sports Law practice Tom Conaghan and Theresia Gouw, co-founder and managing partner of the venture capital firm Acrew, joined Bloomberg Business of Sports hosts Scarlet Fu and Damian Sassower for a podcast episode discussing Gouw’s recent investment in the Buffalo Bills and what’s next for private equity in the National Football League (NFL).

Listen to the full episode, “Bloomberg Business of Sports: Super Bowl Special,” below.