The National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NACVA), the organization that establishes, builds, protects, and defends business value, has announced that its Healthcare Consulting Workshop will include at least half a dozen newly updated topics especially relevant to hospitals and physician practices because of new and pending legislation in 2008.

"The healthcare field faces tons of new challenges," said Gregory Reardon, CEO of the Reardon Group, a healthcare financial consultancy, and principal course developer for the NACVA Healthcare Consulting Workshop. "Demographics are forcing hospitals to look harder to find physicians, medical practices forced to think in new and innovative ways about succession planning; and Medicare legislation is changing the way services are billed and fair market value is determined."

The Healthcare Workshop is part of NACVA's Consultants Training Institute. The 5-day workshops will appear in 3 cities throughout the nation during 2008.
Reardon says the 5-day workshop is also being revamped and updated in 2008 to include new information on reasonableness opinions; determining incremental costs in physician recruitment incentives; fair market value determinations for rentals, equipment, personnel employment leasing arrangements, on-call compensation, and medical directorships; profitability analysis; benchmarking resources; normalization how to's; regulatory compliance testing; the impact of SSVS1 and NACVA's new standards on healthcare reporting effective for 2008 and Calculated Value Reports; per click leasing arrangements; independent contractors; regional marketplaces; and Stark law compliance.

About NACVA:
The National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts is a global, professional association that supports the business valuation, financial forensics, and litigation consulting disciplines within the legal and other professional communities. Along with its training and certification programs, NACVA offers a range of support services, reference materials, software, and customized databases to enhance the professional capabilities and capacities of its members. NACVA offers the Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA), the Accredited Valuation Analyst (AVA), and Certified Forensic Financial Analyst (CFFA) designations. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, it has trained more than 16,000 financial professionals to date. Visit www.nacva.com.

About The Reardon Group:
The Reardon Group has over half a century of experience in public accounting and in serving physicians, medical practices, and hospitals we are uniquely positioned to assist you in implementing your strategy. It serves both hospitals and medical practices that need help with accounting, tax, regulatory compliance, new ventures, valuations, reasonableness opinions, dispute mediation and medical mergers and acquisitions. Visit www.thereardongroup.com.