October 10 - 11, 2019
2019 Hawaii Regional Conference
Honolulu, HI, United StatesAgenda
Thursday, October 10
-
08:00 AM - 08:30 AMRegistration and Continenal Breakfast
-
08:25 AM - 08:30 AMWelcome and Announcements
-
08:30 AM - 09:30 AMUsing a Learning Management System to Improve Your Compliance Program Robert Brown, Director of Compliance, Univ of WA School of Dentistry - Consolidate and track your training completions in a Learning Management System (LMS) - Generate reports and enlist managers to help you police completions - Say goodbye to decentralized paper files and hello to electronic signatures
-
09:30 AM - 09:45 AMBreak
-
09:45 AM - 10:45 AMCompliance Committee Functions Lea Fourkiller, Corporate Compliance Officer, Integris Health - Formation and composition of your compliance committee - Gaining support and commitment for your compliance committee - Compliance professionals role with the compliance committee - The management compliance committee functions
-
10:45 AM - 11:00 AMBreak
-
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMSupporting Compliant Billing in Co-located Physician and Hospital Space - From Stem to Stern Anne Daly, Chief Compliance & Integrity Officer, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago - Providing all services in a convenient location to support patients’ health, convenience, and adherence to their treatment plans - The co-location that makes such care possible comes with rules and regulations that are not intuitive or easily understood
-
12:00 PM - 12:45 PMNetworking Lunch
-
12:45 PM - 01:45 PMEffective Compliance Oversight for Physician Financial Arrangements Robert Wade, Partner, Barnes & Thornburg LLP - Applicable Statutes/Regulations compliance should consider for physician financial arrangements - Pitfalls compliance should consider when evaluating volume/value of referrals prohibition - Fair Market Value vs. Commercial Reasonableness compliance oversight - Best practices during operation of financial arrangements
-
01:45 PM - 02:45 PMExamples of Monitoring Activities Sheryl Vacca, SVP/Chief Risk Officer, Providence St. Joseph Health At the end of this session, the participant will be able to: - Identify how to utilize their risk assessment process for identifying key priority areas for compliance monitoring - Utilize tools provided for two different monitoring examples - Network with the group partifipants on ideas for future compliance monitoring
-
02:45 PM - 03:00 PMBreak
-
03:00 PM - 04:00 PMTop Things a Privacy Officer Needs to Know, But Won't Encounter Everyday Marti Arvin, Executive Advisor, CynergisTek, Inc. - Dealing with the release of information in unique circumstances: minors, law enforcement, etc. - Business associate agreements - Marketing, fundraising, and research - Photos, phones, and privacy
Friday, October 11
-
09:30 AM - 10:30 AMLearning Compliance and Risk Through the Movies Isabella Porter, Director of Compliance, District Medical Group Denise Atwood, Chief Risk Officer, District Medical Group - Define significance of risk and compliance preparation before a crisis event occurs - Provide interactive ethical scenarios to gauge sensitivity readiness in order to plan for crisis aversion - Illustrate the nuances between compliance and ethical operations and considerations
-
10:30 AM - 10:45 AMBreak
-
10:45 AM - 11:45 AMWhat Hospital and Health Care System Compliance Officers Need to Know When Relying on an External Institutional Review Board (IRB) Caroline Miner, Research Compliance Manager & IRB Administrator, Kaiser Permanente Hawaii Region - Overview of the circumstances when hospitals and healthcare systems may need an IRB to review proposed research, uses of investigational drugs, biologics or devices, or the use of PHI for research purposes - Identify and explain the two regulatory changes (effective 1/2019 and 1/2020) designed to move institutions toward greater reliance on a single, external IRB - Outline what compliance officers should understand about selecting an external IRB, documenting the arrangement, and managing the division of responsibilities
-
11:45 AM - 12:45 PMNetworking Lunch
-
12:45 PM - 01:45 PMEnhanced Visibility: How Artificial Intelligence Enables Contracting Compliance Kimberly Hartsfield, Chief Data Officer, MediTract - Analysis and reduction of costs during mergers, acquisitions, or other integration efforts - Identification and mitigation of healthcare-specific compliance risks across the enterprise, such as missing BAAs - Standardization of service-level agreements and consolidation of suppliers - Rapid mining of contracts for specific clauses or language in support of cybersecurity risk evaluation or other regulatory audits
-
01:45 PM - 02:00 PMBreak
-
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMAdvanced Practice Practitioners: Risks and Benefits in the Hospital Setting Marie Wagner, Operations Mgr, Corp Compliance, The Queen's Health Systems Janette Hermosura, Corporate Compliance Coordinator, The Queen's Health Systems - Hospital expense vs independently billable service - Stark Law or the Anti-Kickback Statute concerns - Billing and documentation when working with physicians
-
03:00 PM - 03:15 PMBreak
-
03:15 PM - 04:15 PMIs Your Compliance Program Effective? Debbie Troklus, President, Troklus Compliance Consulting Lea Fourkiller, Corporate Compliance Officer, Integris Health Sheryl Vacca, SVP/Chief Risk Officer, Providence St. Joseph Health - Discussion of measurements to be used to monitor effectiveness - Discussion of the DOJ/HCCA/OIG effectiveness documents - Interactive discuss on conduct compliance effectiveness assessments.
-
04:15 PM - 04:20 PMOverall Evaluation
Agenda subject to change.