COVID-19 Resources

1. Balancing the E, S & G in ESG

   11th Annual ECEI  | March 2023 

2. T201-Crossing the Borders with Your Risk Assessment & Profiles: Integrating U.S. to International Risk Profiles and Vice Versa

   11th Annual ECEI  | March 2023 

   • Discuss how to adjust/change/adapt risk assessment when your organization moves to a new geography
     

   • Learn approaches for mitigating risks that come from foreign regulations
     

   • Apply global risk assessment processes to your own geography
     

3. M302-The Battle for Risk Assessment: E&C, ERM and ESG (or How Best to Coordinate Risk Assessment)

   11th Annual ECEI  | March 2023 

4. Navigating the Risk Landscape in Times of COVID-19

   2020 Asia Regional Compliance & Ethics Virtual Conference  | Presenter(s): Simrat Sohal  | July 2020 

   • Explore past pandemics and incorporate lessons learned to mitigate today’s risks

   • List 10 emergent issues in the new risk landscape

   • Receive practical guidance for building a new normal compliance culture

5. Covid-19 Compliance Panel Discussion Session II

   2020 Boston Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Jim Bryant, Beth Gutoff, Rick King, Lawrence Vernaglia  | September 2020 

   • Key compliance risks, e.g. HIPAA Privacy & Security, Telehealth, EMTALA, Alternate Care Sites, Federal and State grants

   • Impacts to compliance programs, e.g. changing roles and responsibilities, staffing and budget reductions, compliance workplans

   • Post pandemic planning, e.g. pandemic-specific workplan

6. Covid-19 Compliance Panel Discussion Session I: Patient and Employee Privacy

   2020 Boston Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Beth Gutoff, Rick King, Todd Torres  | September 2020 

   • Patient privacy considerations

   • Employee privacy considerations

   • Telehealth privacy considerations

7. Hot Revenue Cycle Compliance Topics

   2020 Boston Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Steve Gillis, Daniel Esquibel  | September 2020 

   • Provide an overview of price transparency rules for hospitals, including definition of standard charges and requirements for machine-readable and customer-friendly files

   • Highlight strategic considerations for health systems of the Transparency in Coverage rule for payers, including employers offering self-funded coverage

   • Highlight strategic considerations for health systems of the Transparency in Coverage rule for payers, including employers offering self-funded coverage

   • Addresses interaction of price transparency regulatory initiative with other federal rulemaking activities

   • Identify new billing compliance risk areas that should be evaluated based on industry changes and recent OIG and other government agency reports

   • Discuss methods for evaluating and monitoring new billing compliance risk areas

8. ERM in the Post-COVID Healthcare Compliance World

   2020 Chicago Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Brian Annulis, Sarah Couture  | October 2020 

   • Gain an understanding of the basics of ERM

   • Understand how is ERM different than compliance

   • Identify decision points to help you decide is ERM right for your organization

9. Managing FMV for Physician Compensation in the Time of COVID

   2020 Chicago Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Mark Behl, Adam Klein  | October 2020 

   • Gain an understanding of different strategies used to stabilize the physician workforce during COVID

   • Plan for new physician transaction risks as operations normalize

   • Anticipate barriers to implementing necessary changes to how physicians will be paid

10. Role of Compliance Officer in Managing Risks Associated with Government COVID "Provider Relief" Funds

    2020 Chicago Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Heather Fields, Darrell Sandeen, Shameka Smith  | October 2020 

    • Gain an understanding of legal and compliance risks associated with acceptance of funds

    • Learn various different strategies for oversight

    • Anticipate challenges to implementing oversight and managing ongoing compliance

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

21. What Compliance Professionals Need to Know about Employment Law

    2020 Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI)  | Presenter(s): Louis Sapirman, James Oh  | September 2020 

    • Provide a general overview of the various employment laws that may impact ethics and compliance

    • Discuss trending compliance-related employment issues, including #MeToo, Cannabis legalization, and government agency initiatives focusing on the workplace, such as the NLRB’s position that social media can be used to engage in protected concerted activity and the EEOC’s Equal Pay Act focus, including the requirement that employers submit pay data to the EEOC

    • Provide guidance regarding how to leverage HR to drive success in your ethics and compliance program

22. How to Promote and Reinforce Your Company's Values Through an Ambassador Program

    2020 Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI)  | Presenter(s): James Shotwell, Michael Chinn, Toni-Lynne Langeveld  | September 2020 

    • Want to start an ambassador program at your company, but don't know where to start? In this session, learn how to garner leadership support for your program, select the right ambassadors, and engage them through meaningful dialogue, tools and resources

    • How can you promote an ethical and compliant culture? Start an ambassador program! In this session, learn what it takes to start a program from the ground up and sustain it with the right people to reinforce behaviors you want your employees to embody

    • Want to reinvent your ambassador program to promote a values-based culture? Learn how SCE transformed its Ethics Ambassador Program to its current Values Ambassador Program and the impact its ambassadors have had on fostering a positive work environment

23. Managing Investigations Before They Start: Organizing an Effective Investigation Process through Thoughtful Preparation

    2020 Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI)  | Presenter(s): Michael Ortwein, Marianne Ibrahim, Danield Wendt  | September 2020 

    • Key investments to make when starting or revamping an investigation process for multinational companies

    • Improving investigation policies and procedures during quiet times, including guidelines for preparing reports, reviewing findings across functions, and deciding on remediation and discipline

    • Managing external counsel, forensic accountants, ediscovery vendors, and other providers across multiple jurisdictions before issues arise

24. Effective Partnership Strategies with Your Board of Directors

    2020 Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI)  | Presenter(s): John Fons, Michael Volkov  | September 2020 

    • Chief Compliance Officers must develop an effective working relationship with its Board of Directors to ensure that the company's compliance program has adequate authority, resources and independence

    • Recent court decisions -- Marchand v. Barnhill and Clovis Oncology, Inc. Derivative Litigation -- have increased risks for individual Board member liability; as a result, CCOs must train board members on proper oversight and monitoring functions

    • Given this new environment, this session will identify positive strategies to increase board engagement, ensure effective reporting, and increase overall board support of the compliance function

25. Crisis and Compliance: Maintaining Oversight and Corporate Culture During the Pandemic

    2020 Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI)  | Presenter(s): Eric Feldman  | September 2020 

    • Identify current challenges and practical responses to help organizations maintain the effectiveness of their ethics and compliance programs during the current pandemic crisis

    • Explore the challenges and risks facing companies as they try to maintain a strong corporate culture in a remote working environment

    • Discover some of the key compliance program elements described in the revised DOJ program evaluation guidance that require additional attention as we navigate through "the new normal"