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Handouts - 2018 - Regional - Kansas City

Kansas City Regional Conference
September 21, 2018
Kansas City, KS

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Discussion of OIG Work Plan Priorities

Patrick J. Cogley, CPA, Regional Inspector General for Audit Services, HHS OIG-OAS, Region VII

  • Describe major ongoing OIG audits and evaluations
  • Discuss focus areas for the OIG in the upcoming years
  • Discuss changes to the OIG work planning process

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A Strategic Approach to Physician Financial Arrangements

Susan Thomas, Consulting Manager, PYA
Shannon Sumner, CPA, CHC, Principal, PYA

  • Identify physician arrangement review goals and discuss importance of reviews.
  • Present critical components of physician contract compliance reviews.
  • Identify key contracting, documentation and compensation-related issues including specific “real world” examples.
  • Describe corrective actions and detail ongoing physician contract monitoring and “best practice” processes.

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Current Trends in Data Privacy and Security Enforcement

Steve Mitchell, Regional Manager, HHS OCR Midwest Region
Iliana Peters, Shareholder, Polsinelli

  • Current trends in HIPAA enforcement, including lessons learned from settlement agreement cases and civil money penalties
  • Recent important guidance from OCR
  • Latest statistics on breaches reported to OCR
  • Phase 2 audit results

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Denials Management and Revenue Integrity—Where Does Compliance Fall?

Diana Adams, RHIA, Independent Healthcare Auditor, RRA, Inc
​​​​​​​Kim Enriquez, RHIA, CCS, CHC, DRG Validation Specialist, OmniClaim

  • Defining denials management and revenue integrity
  • Identify and correct root causes of denials to keep the claims “clean”
  • Compliance- helping to reduce regulatory risk

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CAHPS Compliance and Requirements in 2018

Kelsi Remmert, MHSA, Regional Patient Experience Advisor, Press Ganey Associates-Advisory Services

  • Current CAHPS survey requirements and a look at what’s to come
  • Dos and Don’ts when it comes to official CMS surveying
  • Patient anonymity for surveys: should it be honored?

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Achieving Internal Efficiencies by Aligning Compliance, IT and Audit

Sam Abadir, Vice President, Industry Solutions

  • Internal Audit’s role as a third line of defense in an organization requires the highest level of independence and objectivity within the organization
  • Operationally, this often results in Audit working in silos from the rest of the organization and a misunderstanding of the relationship between Audit and other business functions
  • Technology and process improvements can now integrate and streamline the interactions between audit and the business functions making the internal audit less costly and more efficient while delivering higher value

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