Ethics in Health Care Insolvencies

Ethics in Health Care Insolvencies

This panel explores myriad ethics issues involving health care insolvencies, including the ethical implications in the context of valuing health care companies or providers in the age of COVID-19 (where we were, where we are and where we may be going), the concomitant impact on the valuation of health care companies or providers vis-à-vis increasing the minimum wage and providing the required level of care, capital allocation between patients’ medical needs and fiscal responsibility and management as health care companies or providers face restructuring or liquidity issues, steps that directors and officers of health care companies or providers should consider when they are insolvent (e.g., deciding whether to restructure or file bankruptcy, to whom do the fiduciary duties flow (e.g., to creditors, still to patients), etc.), the duty to transfer patients of a closing health care business and restrictions on transfers, termination of provider agreements or assumption and assignment, and lender issues.

VALCON 2021
2021
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