Cracking the Code: Unlocking the Power of the Value-Based Exceptions and Safe Harbors

Scott Strickland, Shareholder, Hall Render Killian Heath & Lyman PC, Jim Carr, Co-Founder and Partner, InHealth Advisors, and Rachel Polzin, Assistant General Counsel, SSM Health, discuss the value-based enterprise (VBE) framework and the associated exceptions and safe harbors. They cover why the uptick in the framework has been a bit slower than anticipated, ways for health care organizations to take advantage of the VBE exceptions and safe harbors to mitigate risk, the future of traditional co-management arrangements, integrating new compliance processes, and how the Transforming Episode Accountability Model might promote the adoption of VBE. Scott, Jim, and Rachel spoke about this topic at AHLA’s 2025 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.Watch this episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBfiNQ8_AowLearn more about the AHLA 2025 Annual Meeting that took place in San Diego, CA: https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/annual-meeting-2025Learn more about AHLA’s 2025 Annual Meeting eProgram: https://educate.americanhealthlaw.org/local/catalog/view/product.php?productid=1472 Essential Legal Updates, Now in AudioAHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal EducationLearn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.