2020 Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference

  1. Telehealth and CMS: Bringing Care to the Patient

    2020 Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Dr. Scott H. Lawrence  | December 11, 2020 

    • Understand the flexibilities CMS implemented in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency

    • Examine how CMS allows, manages, and enforces telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries

    • Discuss CMS’s vision for telehealth in the future

  2. Expanding the Use of Telehealth: Business and Legal Implications

    2020 Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Liz Whalley Buono  | December 11, 2020 

    • Assessing key telemedicine compliance issues

    • Identifying when in-person patient care is required

    • Planning for post-PHE Telemedicine practice

  3. Key Compliance Challenges in the Physician Practice Setting

    2020 Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): John M. Poma  | December 11, 2020 

    • Develop an enterprise risk management strategy as a foundation to an organization’s compliance program

    • Foster an organizational culture and articulate shared values to support a robust compliance program

    • Create reporting structures that encourage employees and stakeholders to bring issues forward (related to culture)

    • Educate physicians and obtain buy-in as to why both top down and bottom up compliance is important

  4. Compliance and Clinicians: Infectious Disease Compliance Issues and Related Surveys and Inspections Considerations

    2020 Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Dr. Peter Buckley, Mary Malone  | December 11, 2020 

    • Gain familiarity with the background of infectious diseases and related healthcare issues generally

    • Understand compliance protocols for infection control in hospitals and their application to COVID and other infectious diseases

    • Identify legal triggers related to noncompliance with infection control protocols and how to avoid issues through infection compliance readiness

  5. Emerging Areas of Fraud and Abuse Enforcement

    2020 Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): James Sheehan, Eric Atkinson  | December 11, 2020 

    • Managing conflict of interest and related party transactions in healthcare organizations

    • Compensation issues for physicians and executives: Stark, nonprofit law, Internal Revenue Code

    • Physician and hospital interactions with pharmaceutical assistance programs for patients - compliance learning from recent Corporate Integrity Agreements

  6. Remote Compliance: Maintaining Effectiveness During Crisis

    2020 Richmond Regional Healthcare Compliance Conference  | Presenter(s): Lori Foley, Dristen Davidson  | December 11, 2020 

    • Identifying and prioritizing risk during a crisis

    • Managing compliance programs and people remotely

    • Handling more with less – the effects of furloughs and layoffs on compliance