November 8, 2019
2019 Scottsdale Regional Conference
Scottsdale, AZ, United StatesAgenda
Friday, November 8
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08:00 AM - 08:20 AMContinental Breakfast
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08:25 AM - 08:30 AMWelcome and Announcements Welcome to our Scottsdale Regional Conference. All session will take place in the same room. 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.
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08:30 AM - 09:30 AMCommunicating With Regulators & Enforcement: Avoiding Pitfalls James Rough, President, SunHawk Consulting LLC Lon Leavitt, Partner, Halunen Law Christian Schrank, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services OIG James Schwegel, Special Projects Coordinator, Arizona Attorney General's Office Vanessa Templeman, Deputy Inspector General, AHCCCS-OIG - Management know all too well the consequences of receiving regulatory inquiries, or worst, a subpoena can have on their reputation, bottom line, and their time - Learn the importance of building a good working relationship with government representatives - Learn the importance of accurate, timely, and complete disclosure when reporting or selfdisclosing to government representatives
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09:30 AM - 09:45 AMNetworking Break Be sure to visit and network with the conference exhibitors: - American Messaging - Moss Adams, LLP - SunHawk Consulting LLC
- True Office Learning - 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. -
09:45 AM - 10:45 AMProsecution and Defense: Points of Collaboration and Contention Frank Sheeder, Partner, Alston & Bird LLP Lon Leavitt, Partner, Halunen Law - Common divergent viewpoints - Establishing collaboration and cooperation - Practical approaches in government investigations
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10:45 AM - 10:55 AMNetworking Break Be sure to visit and network with the conference exhibitors
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10:55 AM - 11:55 AMHIPAA Updates Alicia Brown, Supervisory Equal Opportunity Specialist, DHHS/OCR Pacific Region - Policy development - Breach notification - Enforcement and audit
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12:00 PM - 01:00 PMNetworking Lunch
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12:45 PM - 01:45 PMKickback Enforcement Update Katherine Lauer, Partner, Latham & Watkins, LLP - New private payor anti-kickback provisions of EKRA - Recent DOJ criminal and civil enforcement - New areas of focus
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01:45 PM - 02:00 PMNetworking Break Be sure to visit and network with the conference exhibitors
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02:00 PM - 03:00 PMSetting Up a Compliance Program for ACOs Kathy Harris, Sr. Director Government Operations, Banner Health Network - Overview of CMS ACO programs - ACO program requirements - How compliance can support their ACO
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03:00 PM - 03:15 PMNetworking Break Be sure to visit and network with the conference exhibitors
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03:15 PM - 04:15 PMImplementing and Operating an Effective Physician Arrangements Compliance Program Steven Ortquist, Founder & Principal, Arete Compliance Solutions, LLC - What do Stark and AKS require? - What causes organizations physician arrangements problems? - How to implement and operate an effective arrangements compliance program
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04:15 PM - 04:20 PMOverall Evaluation
Agenda subject to change.