Augie Curtis
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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So a hospital that's buying a Medicare...
agreement.
I hate using those words because that's not what the government thinks the statute says anyway.
But a hospital is going to acquire one of those.
Whether it's the selling hospital or the buying hospital can sort of put into escrow an amount that represents what we think is going to be the potential liability.
And those numbers have tended to be rather small, at least in the cases that have been dealt with so far.
And the result of that has been that
we were able to put together an agreement which was more or less consistent with our understanding of the statute and regulations, i.e.
it followed the CHOW process, change in ownership process, but at the same time specified the maximum risk that a buyer could face.
And most of those buyers say,
Okay, we can deal with that.
$100,000 or $50,000, or it could be more than that, but at least it's quantifiable.
And that's it.
That's the extent of the risk that they can face through that ESPER arrangement.
It's not a perfect mechanism.
There are going to be a lot of things, I'm sure, that have to be dealt with to figure out whether it really works, but that's the idea, the pragmatic idea.
As far as those other liabilities are concerned, those bad-ass liabilities,
That's always an area of ambiguity, but it's one that
I think it's traversed mostly because those kind of liabilities really don't flow contractually.
They're tort liabilities.
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