Welcome and Announcements

Telehealth and CMS:Bringing Care to the Patient Scott Lawrence, Deputy Director, Division of Practitioner Services, CMS

• Understanding the flexibilities CMS implemented in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency
• Examine how CMS allows, manages, and enforces telehealth services for Medicare beneficiaries
• Discuss CMS's vision for telehealth in the future

Break

Expanding the Use of Telehealth: Business and Legal Implications Elizabeth Whalley Buono, Partner, Hancock Daniel and Johnson, P.C.

• Assessing key telemedicine compliance issues
• Identifying when in-person patient care is required
• Planning for post-PHE Telemedicine practice

Break

Emerging Areas of Fraud and Abuse Enforcement James Sheehan, Chief, Charities Bureau, NY Attorney General Joseph "Eric" Atkinson, Director, Hancock Daniel

• Managing conflict of interest and related party transactions in healthcare organizations
• Compensation issues for physicians and executives: Stark, nonprofit law, Internal Revenue Code
• Physician and hospital interactions with pharmaceutical assistance programs for patients - compliance learning from recent Corporate Integrity Agreements

Mid-Conference Break

Compliance and Clinicians: Infectious Disease Compliance Issues and Related Surveys and Inspections Considerations Mary Malone, Attorney/Equity Partner, Hancock Daniel Peter Buckley, Dean, School of Medicine, EVP of Medical Affairs, VCU Health System

• Gain familiarity with the background of infectious diseases and related healthcare issues generally
• Understand compliance protocols for infection control in hospitals and their application to COVID and other infectious diseases
• Identify legal triggers related to noncompliance with infection control protocols and how to avoid issues through infection compliance readiness

Break

Remote Compliance: Maintaining Effectiveness During Crisis Lori Foley, Principal, PYA, P.C. Kristen Lilly-Davidson, Compliance Manager, PYA

• Identifying and prioritizing risk during a crisis
• Managing compliance programs and people remotely
• Handling more with less – the effects of furloughs and layoffs on compliance

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Key Compliance Challenges in the Physician Practice Setting John Poma, Chief Legal Counsel, Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group

• Develop an enterprise risk management strategy as a foundation to an organization’s compliance program
• Foster an organizational culture and articulate shared values to support a robust compliance program
• Create reporting structures that encourage employees and stakeholders to bring issues forward (related to culture)
• Educate physicians and obtain buy-in as to why both top down and bottom up compliance is important

Networking and Discussion Connect with your fellow attendees and enjoy a free-flowing conversation about what stood out during the sessions or a compliance challenge you want feedback on. The objective here is to enable conference participants to network with and learn from each other, and help overcome the isolation of the past months. This optional networking event will be held on Zoom and participants may choose to be on camera.