2020 Virtual New Orleans Regional Conference

  1. OCR Update (2020 New Orleans Regional)

    2020 Virtual New Orleans Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): Valerie Montoya  | April 24, 2020 

    • HIPAA Privacy and Novel Coronavirus Updates

    • Breach Notification Compliance Requirements and Trends

    • Recent Enforcement Action and Best Practices

  2. Compliance Hot Topics

    2020 Virtual New Orleans Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): Tim Barret, Henry Overton  | April 24, 2020 

    • The new “Work From Home” Compliance threats

    • The old compliance standards few are doing correctly

    • Hard times & hard decisions

  3. Compliance and Patient Experience

    2020 Virtual New Orleans Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): Ann Koppel, Dr. Chantal Lorio  | April 24, 2020 

    • How can an effective compliance program augment the patient experience and prevent or identify gaps

    • A discussion of the ways in which training the workforce on improved communication improves care and trust with patients

    • A discussion of strategies for communicating the culture of compliance to patients

  4. Successfully Navigating Today's World of CMS Audits

    2020 Virtual New Orleans Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): Diane Weiss  | April 24, 2020 

    • Understand CMS's different audit programs such as SMRC, TPE, RAC as well as MAC probe audits

    • Understand the documentation requirements for the services being reviewed

    • How to properly prepare the documentation reply and timeliness requirements for audit success

    • Enjoy your audit success

  5. HHS Basics of Cybersecurity: Top 5 threats and 10 best practices

    2020 Virtual New Orleans Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): Ty Greenhalgh  | April 24, 2020 

    • Learn the primary cybersecurity threat vectors and most impactful defenses in easy to understand terms

    • Participants are provided best practices, templates and toolkits by hospital size

    • Ensure your organization focuses on the highest risk threats with appropriate control techniques

  6. Tips for Conducting Interviews During Internal Investigations (New Orleans Regional)

    2020 Virtual New Orleans Regional Conference  | Presenter(s): David Glaser  | April 24, 2020 

    • Strategies for gathering information: Should you use the carrot or stick?

    • Recognize how some unconventional strategies, including telephone interviews, can be surprisingly effective.

    • Learn how to educate witnesses while avoiding acts that may be considered obstruction of justice.