Internal Policy Development

Internal policy development is key to operations, compliance, and the quality of healthcare provided to patients.  Athene Law provides counsel to healthcare providers from start to finish in developing internal policy development.  We routinely structure and develop compliance plans that meet expectations of the Office of the Inspector General and the Department of Justice, while being tailored for each provider.

We develop important policies for healthcare providers to remain compliant on important issues, including billing, privacy, patients rights, ethics issues, and informed consent. We monitor developments in state and federal policy to provide effective advice.

Capabilities

Clients in the healthcare industry, including physicians and groups, facilities, for-profit and non-profit entities, hospitals, and hospital systems need guidance and representation for a variety of needs.

Athene Law’s diverse experience within the healthcare industry has prepared the team to represent practices and professionals in a highly-regulated environment.

Internal policy development capabilities include:

• Financial assistance policies
• Incident to billing
• Patient cost sharing collection
• Overpayment audits, investigations, and corrective actions
• Responding to subpoenas
• Medicare bad debt
• Medicare intensive outpatient rules
• 340B compliance
• Scope of practice
• Medical records documentation
• Risk management
• Emergency protocols
• Patient care policies