Agenda

Friday, February 7

  • 07:30 AM - 08:25 AM
    Registration and Continental Breakfast
  • 08:25 AM - 08:30 AM
    Welcome and Announcements Welcome to the HCCA Portland Regional Conference. All conference sessions will be held in the Washington/Clark ballrooms.
  • 08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
    Coordinated Care Organization (CCO 2.0) Dave Inbody, CCO Operations Manager, Oregon Health Authority
    • How metrics affect compliance
    • How compliance can help affect metrics
  • 09:30 AM - 09:45 AM
    Break
  • 09:45 AM - 10:45 AM
    ACP - Attorney-Client Privilege Ellen Hampton, Director, Corporate Integrity, Safety & Risk Management, Salem Health John Bauer, Attorney, Parks Bauer Sime Winkler & Fernety, LLP
    • What is Attorney/Client privilege: how it should be used, by whom, and the consequences when it is not used
    • How Compliance and Legal can work together
    • Separation of Legal and Compliance
  • 10:45 AM - 10:55 AM
    Break
  • 10:55 AM - 11:55 AM
    Medicaid Fraud Unit Updates Jodie Bureta, Sr. Assistant Attorney General, Oregon Department of Justice - Overview of the Oregon Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, including authority, jurisdiction and organization
    - Highlights of recently prosecuted cases around the State of Oregon demonstrating the types of fact patterns and trends we are seeing and some investigative strategies
    - What to expect if Oregon MFU gets involved investigating one of your clients/providers, including what the agencies obligations might be
  • 11:55 AM - 12:45 PM
    Lunch (provided)
  • 12:45 PM - 01:45 PM
    Record Retention Best Practices Aurae Beidler, Compliance/ Privacy Officer, Linn County Health Services Lynne Shoemaker, Consultant, Owner, Willamette Consulting Group, LLC Glenn Odell, President, SIS NW Inc
    • How to deal with conflicting state rules (OARs)
    • Where does the 10 year rule come from?
    • How to approach retention/destruction when your EHR system does not/will not "destroy" records (we are years from this but it’s still a question)
    • Scanning, archiving best practices
  • 01:45 PM - 02:00 PM
    Break
  • 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
    Resolving Conflicts of Interest: Finding and Evaluating Financial Relationships David Glaser, Shareholder, Fredrikson & Byron PA
    • Recognize which financial relationships are allowed, which are clearly illegal, and which are grey
    • Tips for finding and avoiding problematic payments
    • Practical strategies for educating medical professions about conflicts, including why the phrase "conflicts of interest" can confuse people
  • 03:00 PM - 03:10 PM
    Break
  • 03:10 PM - 04:10 PM
    HIPAA Privacy, Breach and Audit Updates Eric Press, Equal Opportunity Specialist, HHS/OCR
    • HIPAA Updates
    • Civil Rights Updates
    • Enforcement Examples

Agenda subject to change.

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