Compliance Focus Group Chair Bios

Chris Anderson
CFG Chair - Home Care

Gentiva Health Services
Chief Compliance Officer
3 Huntington Quadrangle, 2S
Melville, NY 11747
631-501-7390
Chris.Anderson@gentiva.com

Chris Anderson is responsible for compliance. He oversees regulatory affairs, HIPAA management, privacy, billing compliance review, real estate, state-specific policy development, and internal audit. His goals for Gentiva include setting the standard for compliance programs in the health-care industry. He strives to create efficient processes throughout the company that result in increased profitability, productivity, compliance, and consistency. He is widely recognized as having developed one of the first comprehensive compliance programs in the home care industry.

Prior to working for Gentiva, Chris worked in compliance for Selig Chemical Industries, Atlanta, GA. Later, as enforcement activity came center stage in the health-care industry in the early 1990s, Chris was asked to assist a health-care company with its compliance issues. He was named Corporate Director of Compliance for Home Care Affiliates, Inc., Kentucky. Subsequently, he joined the Olsten Corporation as Chief Compliance Officer and became Chief Compliance Officer and Vice President of Audit Services and Quality Assurance for Gentiva, Melville, NY.

Happy to apply his expertise to Gentiva, Chris sees the company as providing a compassionate service with talented caregivers. His focus is on continuing to oversee Gentiva's strong foundation in integrity, values, and business discipline. He concentrates on maintaining Gentiva's strict principles of quality, efficiency, and good business practices as the company is poised to be the standard bearer for the industry.

Chris is also Chairman of the Home Care Section of the Health Care Compliance Association. He is on the editorial board of the BNA Health Care Compliance Guide. He is a member of the Health Care Compliance Association, the American College of Forensic Examiners, and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. He has been published and interviewed frequently by numerous trade and professional publications, most recently the Journal of Health Care Compliance. Chris received his BA in history with studies in law from Georgetown College.

"Years with the company: 3.5. "Responsibilities: compliance, regulatory affairs, HIPAA management, privacy, billing compliance review, real estate, state-specific policy development, and internal audit.

"Previous positions at Gentiva: Chief Compliance Officer, Olsten Corporation; Chief Compliance Officer, Vice President of Audit Services and Quality Assurance.

"Previous employment: Vice President, Compliance and Government Affairs, Housecall Medical Resources, Inc.; Corporate Director, Compliance, Home Care Affiliates, Inc.; Environmental Compliance Specialist, Selig Chemical Industries, Inc.

Associate Director, Office of Compliance
University of Florida College of Medicine.
Office  (352) 265-8359     NWT@ufl.edu

Nina Tarnuzzer has been a CPA for 30 years, with a wide variety of public and governmental experience, including federal and state audits. She moved to healthcare in 1994 and has been working in Physician Billing Compliance for six years. In addition, she teaches performance improvement in the Masters in Health Administration and is a certified procedural coder.

Chief Compliance Officer
UC Davis Health System
Sherman 3980
2300 Stockton Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95817
rsjaffe@ucdavis.edu

Rory Jaffe is the Chief Compliance Officer at the University of California Davis Health System and is responsible for overseeing and monitoring the implementation of the compliance program. In addition, Rory serves as UC Davis School of Medicine Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, as UC Davis Medical Group Associate Medical Director of Professional Billing Compliance, as UC Davis Medical Group PATH Audit Representative. He received a BS in Biology from Stanford University, a MD from UC Davis, and an MBA in Health Care Management from UC Davis. He is a frequent lecturer and author of numerous medical and compliance articles. He is licensed to practice medicine in California and Georgia, Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners, and Diplomate, American Board of Anesthesiology. He has received numerous awards including Alpha Omega Alpha, California State Merit Scholarship, and UC Davis Medical Center Medical Staff Award for Outstanding Service.

Privacy Officer
Universityof Louisville
Louisville, KY
Marti.arvin@louisville.edu

Marti Arvin has been working in compliance for over five years. Her primary area of focus has been academic medicine. In her current position as the Privacy Officer for the University of Louisville, she is responsible for the privacy compliance program at the university level.  The program has oversight for privacy compliance for the School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, School of Nursing, the university group health plan and various other programs.

Prior to her position with the University of Louisville, Ms. Arvin was the Privacy and Compliance Officer for the University of Pittsburgh Physicians.  Before that she held the same position at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Ms. Arvin is an attorney. Before establishing herself in compliance and privacy, she practiced law with the Indiana Attorney General’s Office.

She has written and lectured extensively on physician compliance and privacy issues. She is a board member to the Health Care Certification Board and chair of the Health Care Compliance Association’s Compliance Focus Group on Academic Medicine.

John Ciavardone, BS, CHC
CFG Chair - Behavioral Health

Northwestern Human Services
Chief Compliance Officer
620 Germantown Pike
Lafayette Hill, PA 19444
610-260-4616
jciavardone@nhsonline.org

John M. Ciavardone, Northwestern Human Services' (NHS) Vice President for Quality Improvement and Program Compliance, has more than 20 years experience in behavioral healthcare administration. He created, and is responsible for the on-going management of NHS' Compliance Program, as well as the development of the first corporate quality improvement program. He has served as Vice President for Administration and the Executive Director of a NHS subsidiary community mental health center and also created and developed a system of children's behavioral healthcare services across a significant portion of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Before joining NHS, John was the Fiscal Administrator of the Philadelphia Office of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, where he established a contracting process for over 60 private organizations providing behavioral health services in Philadelphia as well as the budgeting process still in use today. He later served as Acting and Deputy Director of the Philadelphia Office of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.

John played a pivotal role in the closing of Philadelphia State Hospital (PSH), and chaired the Community Resources Subcommittee of the State's organized Closing Committee. He authored the sub-committee's report that ultimately served as the blueprint for the public behavioral health system without access to a state hospital. John was a founding member of the Coalition for the Responsible Closing of PSH, which advocated successfully for a strong community based system of care, and a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Consumer Satisfaction Team, Inc. He currently serves as Treasurer. John also helped design the model and was responsible for opening the state's first Long Term Structured Residence (LTSR).

The Philadelphia Coalition of Community Mental Health and Mental Retardation Centers, The Philadelphia Alliance of Specialized Agencies and advocacy groups, including the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and the Alliance for the Mentally Ill have recognized his efforts and contributions in the behavioral healthcare field.

John is certified in healthcare compliance, Chair of the Behavioral Healthcare Special Interest Group of the Health Care Compliance Association, a lecturer and provides consulting services. He is a graduate of Kenyon College with a BA in political science.

James Speros
CFG Chair - Government

Manager
CBI Evaluation and Assessment Service
VHA CBIO
Brecksville, Ohio
440 746-2131

James M. Speros is the Manager of the Evaluation and Assessment Service of the Veterans Health Administration’s national Office of Compliance and Business Integrity.   In that role, he is accountable for evaluating the effectiveness of VHA’s field-based compliance programs at its 160 Medical Centers and approximately 850 community-based clinics.  VHA is one of the largest integrated health systems in the country: in FY2004, its 200,000 employees delivered nearly 55 million professional encounters and approximately 750,000 inpatient discharges.  Mr. Speros’ VA service also includes positions as Compliance and Business Integrity Officer at the VHA networks in Upstate New York and in Ohio. 

Prior to joining VA, Mr. Speros served as General Counsel or equivalent to insurance holding companies in Ohio and Illinois, where he also had accountability for operations of a Medicare Part C plan and a Worker’s Compensation benefits administrator. Prior public service includes tours of duty in city and county prosecutor’s offices, as Assistant Director of the Ohio Department of Insurance, as a Trustee of a multi-hospital county health care system, and as President of the Ohio Association of Managed Care Organizations.

Mr. Speros is a Fellow of the Ethics Resource Center and is a member of the Health Care Compliance Association, the Health Care Anti-Fraud Association and the Executive Committee of the Health Care Anti-Fraud Task Force of the HHS Office of National Health Information Technology. He is a regular speaker at HCCA national institutes, and chairs the HCCA Government Focus Group.  He holds degrees from Boston University and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, and is a licensed pilot.

CFG Co-Chairs - Long Term Care

Chauncey Hunker
Sun Healthcare Group, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
866-468-2512 x6853
Chauncey.hunker@sunh.com

Patricia Kolling
Beverly Corporation
Fort Smith, AR
479-201-5181
patricia.kolling@bevelycorp.com

CFG Chair - Large Health Care Systems & Hospitals

Linda Wolverton
Triad Hospitals
5800 Tennyson Parkway
Plano, Texas 75024
214-473-3827
Fax: 866-947-2144

linda.wolverton@triadhospitals.com
 

Director, Corporate Learning and Organizational Development
Tufts Health Plan
(781) 768-9323

Anne Doyle has worked in health care since 1983. She has worked for Tufts Associated Health Plans, Inc., since 1998 and is Director, Corporate Learning and Organizational Development. Previously, Anne served as Tufts Health Plan’s Compliance and Privacy Officer, where she managed strategy and daily operations of all aspects of the corporate compliance program, including the corporate privacy program. She also oversaw the implementation of the HIPAA privacy rule, which involved 13 project teams and nearly 100 individuals.

Ms. Doyle earned a Masters in Business Administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1990, was a Fulbright Scholar in Sweden from 1986-1987, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1983.

Ms. Doyle has presented at HCCA's HIPAA Forum, has written several compliance related articles published in Compliance Today and the Journal of Health Care Compliance, serves as a member of the HCCA Northeast Region Planning Committee, and served for three years as Co-Chair of the Mass Health Data Consortium Privacy Forum, a statewide organization of health care Privacy Officers. In 2004, Ms. Doyle was selected to participate in the America's Health Insurance Plans Executive Leadership Program.

CFG Co-Chairs – Physician Group Practice

Dale A. Hammer, MA, MHSA
Team Health Anesthesia Management Services, Inc.
Director of Compliance and Quality
San Diego, California 
dale_hammer@teamhealth.com

Kathleen Boice
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Compliance Officer
Palo Alto, California
kboice@pamf.org  

HCCA Board; CFG Chair - Pharmaceutical

Sheryl Vacca, CHC
Director National Health Care Compliance Practice
Deloitte & Touche
Costa Mesa, CA
svacca@deloitte.com

Sheryl Vacca is Immediate Past President of the Health Care Compliance Association and a Director in the Health Care Regulatory and Dispute Consulting Practice at Deloitte & Touche.  Her primary focus is Health Care Compliance on the West Coast.  She was formerly the Vice President, Corporate Compliance Officer for Sutter Health, a large system in Northern California consisting of 36,000 employees, 5,000 aligned physicians and a full continuum of healthcare services. She directed the development and implementation of a system-wide compliance program. Involvement with state and national agencies in identifying standards for best practice for compliance programs has been an area of involvement for Ms. Vacca. Recent achievements in this area include being certified by the Health Care Compliance Borad and receiving an award by Health Care Compliance Association to Sutter Health for Best Practices in the development of their Standards for Business Conduct.Ms. Vacca has over 20 years experience in acute care hospitals and outpatient settings that include clinical and administrative positions. She holds a master’s degree in administration and is a registered nurse