Patient Gifts, Discounts and Freebies: What You Can and Can't Do Under the Health Care Laws in 2024

Gifts, discounts and freebies for patients can raise problems under health care laws. This 60-minute patient inducements webinar explains how to analyze them and decide what your organization can and can't offer.

You'll look at whether an offer provides a real patient benefit and whether exceptions may apply, such as those for financial hardship, transportation, preventive care and patient engagement. The session starts with an overview of the law, then sets out key ways to comply, examples of compliant patient support and best practices.

The focus is on practical guidance health care organizations can use when designing patient incentives and discounts.

• Explain how health care laws apply to patient gifts, discounts and freebies
• Assess whether a patient inducement provides a patient benefit
• Identify exceptions for hardship, transportation, preventive care and patient engagement
• Apply key compliance steps and best practices to patient support programs

• An overview of the law
• Analyzing patient inducements and whether there is a patient benefit
• Exceptions for hardship, transportation, preventive care and patient engagement
• Key ways to comply
• Examples of compliant patient support
• Best practices

Health care organizations want to support patients, but incentives and discounts need to fit within the law. This session gives practical guidance for assessing patient inducements and structuring support that complies.

It suits in-house counsel, health care compliance officers, health care HR, CFOs and executives.

• In-House Counsel
• Health Care Compliance Officers
• Health Care Human Resources
• Health Care CFO's
• Health Care Executives

Joseph Wolfe is an attorney with Hall Render, the largest healthcare-focused law firm in the country. Mr. Wolfe supports high-performing hospitals, health systems, medical groups, and other healthcare organizations nationwide on complex financial, legal, regulatory, and strategic issues both as a consultant and attorney, depending on the scope of support, client preference, and need. He is a frequent speaker for most of the national healthcare trade associations and has given over 200 in-person, web-based, and podcast presentations in recent years. He is the leader of Hall Render’s healthcare regulatory practice group and currently serves as the vice chair of educational programming for the American Health Law Association’s Fraud & Abuse Practice Group. He is licensed as an attorney in both Florida and Wisconsin.