COVID-19 Resources

11. Enforcement Trends Update (2020 Clinical Practice Compliance Conference)

    2020 Chicago Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Linda Wawzenski  | October 2020 

    • Master health care fraud case law developments arising from both criminal prosecutions and civil suits

    • Hear statistics about what the Department of Justice and U.S. Attorney’s Offices have recovered in health care fraud cases and settlements over the past year

    • Learn about and understand recent Department of Justice policies and their impact on providers

12. HIPAA and Social Media

    2020 Clinical Practice Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Cathy Jefferson  | October 2020 

    • HIPAA and social media are very challenging for our physician offices; this presentation will define this new era of communication

    • This presentation will help physician offices to make sure they are not violating HIPAA regulations as they relate to social media and what to do if you find yourself sitting in front of OCR

    • This presentation will provide tips and tricks to help educate your providers on how to participate in social media without violating HIPAA regulations

13. General Session: Short of Ventilators -- How We Wound Up Here Again, and Probably Will in the Future

    2020 Clinical Practice Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): David N. Hoffman  | October 2020 

    • When the COVID-19 pandemic passes, numerous task forces, workgroups, and blue-ribbon panels will be formed to draw lessons from the successes and failures of our current response efforts. But why were we so unprepared this time?

    • We know how we will respond after the pandemic passes because in each earlier public health emergency, we fell into the same scripted response

    • In this session, the presenter will describe his involvement in hospital planning in response to the SARS, MERS, H1N1, and Ebola events, and how compliance officers must make sure that lessons learned are implemented and not forgotten

14. General Session: OIG Update - Advancing Oversight with Data and Analytics

    2020 Clinical Practice Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Renata Maziarz Miskell  | October 2020 

    • Overview of HHS OIG

    • COVID-19 Oversight

    • Advancing Oversight with Data and Analytics

15. Mitigating the Risks from Opioid Prescribing: A Legal and Medical Perspective

    2020 Clinical Practice Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Amy G. Fogelman, Jesse Caplan  | October 2020 

    • Healthcare providers who engage in inappropriate opioid prescribing are increasingly subject to discipline by professional medical and nursing boards, civil medical malpractice liability, and, in the most egregious cases, criminal prosecution

    • Healthcare organizations should be proactive in ensuring they have effective opioid prescribing compliance programs that incorporate all relevant laws, regulations, CDC guidelines, and applicable standards of practice

    • This program provides detailed information on the risks of opioid prescribing and the associated elements of an effective compliance program from a former healthcare regulator and a physician with expertise in opioid prescribing practices

16. Risk Matters That Merit Attention Amid a Crisis

    2020 Clinical Practice Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Valerie T. Cloud  | October 2020 

    • Learn how to swiftly identify, track, and mitigate emerging risk

    • Learn how monitoring questionnaires and self-reporting tools can drive better internal controls and risk management

    • Learn how to manage and monitor your risk responses

17. Current Pressures in Whistleblower Retaliation, and the Effect on Compliance Program Effectiveness

    2020 Columbus Regional Compliance & Ethics Conference  | Presenter(s): Lisa Fine, Matt Kelly  | November 2020 

    • Review of recent whistleblower cases, both in corporate and government proceedings and how they may impact reporting and implications of these cases on day-to-day reporters

    • Hear about best practices for encouraging reporting of wrongdoing and for protecting reporters from retaliation from a practitioner with experience in two different industries, and bring your experiences, questions and pressure points to the discussion

    • We will also discuss situations where compliance officers have raised concerns and must escalate them to leadership, the board or externally

18. Conducting Thorough Corporate Investigations: Don't Get Lost in the Data

    2020 Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI)  | Presenter(s): Brian Mich  | September 2020 

    • What does a strategic investigative framework look like? We'll discuss key considerations for establishing a strong investigation and right-sizing your response to maximize effort and resources

    • How to focus your resources on what matters most: Navigating privacy considerations, preserving evidence and accounting for regional nuance

    • Leverage data analytics to help focus and streamline your investigation - eliminate irrelevant documents and false positives while clustering and visualizing evidence of interest

19. Bringing Effective Ethics and Compliance Training to a Multi-Generational Workforce

    2020 Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI)  | Presenter(s): Lea Williams  | September 2020 

    • How to share a consistent message with a diverse multi-generational workforce. Adult learners require training that is tailored to the adult learner

    • Why utilizing multiple training platforms is more effective than trying to shoehorn your workforce into a one size fits all training. Different generations require an approach that reaches out to them

    • Learn from my mistakes and successes. There is no perfect solution but follow along and avoid reinventing the wheel

20. Europe, Balkans and the Americas: Dealing with Compliance in Our New Reality - Why Should You Care?

    2020 Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI)  | Presenter(s): Susan DuBecker, Maria Lancri, Yulia Eliseeva  | September 2020 

    • Using the law as an excuse; emergency laws, Brexit, Europe and the Balkans. Do they exist, what are they and, how do we work together?

    • Using the economy as an excuse; Now we have new laws, Force Majeure and our new reality. What is the cause and effect with our Compliance Programs, Anti-Trust, Privacy and Corruption. How do we steer and guide our people?

    • Relationships between you, me and others and the necessity of ethical relationships in the aftermath of Covid 19; New bonds, new opportunities, new behaviors, new ways of thinking in our new world