February 28, 2020
2020 St Louis Regional Conference
St Louis, MO, United StatesAgenda
Friday, February 28
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07:30 AM - 08:25 AMRegistration and Continental BreakfastSt LouisMO
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08:25 AM - 08:30 AMWelcome and Announcements Welcome to the HCCA St. Louis Regional Conference! All conference sessions will be held in the Renaissance Ballroom. You will have a few short breaks to visit with exhibitors and a networking lunch. Continuing Education can be obtained by filling out the CEU application form after you have attended the event. Please take some time to fill out the evaluation survey for each session, located at the bottom of the session descriptions in the mobile app. If you are choosing to take notes in the mobile app on the presentations you can email those notes to yourself after the conference by click on the "My Notes" Button at the bottom of the app and then click on the "Email Notes" Button at the top right.St LouisMO
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AMHIPAA Privacy and TCPA as it Relates to Unsecure Text Messages Paul Hales, Attorney at Law, Hales Law Group
- Healthcare Email and Text Message Laws - Simple Steps to Avoid Danger
- HIPAA Privacy, Security Rules and 3 Step Safe Harbor
- CMS Conditions of Participation/Coverage
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
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09:30 AM - 09:45 AMBreak Please take some time to visit with our exhibitors: DMD Systems Recovery, Inc. HealthStream, Inc. Maize Analytics, Inc. Protenus ProviderTrust, Inc. RadarFirst The HIPAA E-Tool Wolters Kluwer For each exhibitor you connect with during conference, you will be given a ticket. Print your name on your tickets collected and drop them off at HCCAs Registration Desk during the last break of the day. The more tickets you collect and enter, the better your chances of winning! Winners will be announced at the beginning of the last session. You must be present to win. No purchase necessary.St LouisMO
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09:45 AM - 10:45 AMTips for Conducting Interviews During Internal Investigations David Glaser, Shareholder, Fredrikson & Byron PA
- Strategies for gathering information: Should you use the carrot or stick?
- Recognize how some unconventional strategies, including telephone interviews, can be surprisingly effective.
- Learn how to educate witnesses while avoiding acts that may be considered obstruction of justice.
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10:45 AM - 10:55 AMBreakSt LouisMO
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10:55 AM - 11:55 AMClinical Trials Billing Compliance: Auditing and Monitoring Tactics Allison Ritchie, Manager, Protiviti Andrew Smith, Director, Protiviti, Inc.
- Clinical Trials: A regulatory overview
- Clinical Trials Billing: Auditing monitoring tactics
- Clinical Trials Billing Compliance Audit: A case study
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11:55 AM - 12:45 PMLunch (provided)St LouisMO
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12:45 PM - 01:45 PMOIG Enforcement Trends William Young, Ass't Special Agent in Charge, U.S. DHHS Suzanne Moore, Assistant US Attorney, US Attorney's Office E District of MOSt LouisMO
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01:45 PM - 02:00 PMBreakSt LouisMO
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PMThe Art of Benchmarking for Risk. How to Target Your Outliers Without Needing a Math Degree. Jared Krawczyk, Director of Analytics, Nektar Analytics
- Explore benchmarking techniques needed to assess the risk of a physician’s coding patterns (E/Ms, Modifiers, Productivity, Procedural Billing)
- Demonstrate how to organize the analysis results into one comprehensive physician compliance scorecard
- Discuss how to apply the benchmarking results for the entire medical group into a singular prioritized audit plan. (Providing actual example audit plans)
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03:00 PM - 03:10 PMBreakSt LouisMO
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03:10 PM - 04:10 PMMedical Marijuana Panel Steve Levine, Partner, Husch Blackwell Sunil Sinha, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, BJC Medical Group Jane Drummond, General Counsel and Vice President of Legal Affairs, Missouri Hospital AssociationSt LouisMO
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04:10 PM - 04:15 PMOverall EvaluationSt LouisMO