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n Michelle Wolf, Office of the General
Counsel, Partners Healthcare System, Inc.
Program sponsors: Fresenius, HCCS,
MediRegs, MediTract
Co-Sponsors: Atlantic Information Services’
AIS’s Report on Patient Privacy, Guide to
Audit Health Care Billing Practices, Report
on Medicare Compliance, and HIPAA
Guide on Patient Privacy; and HCPro’s
Health Care Auditing Strategies and Strategies
for Health Care Compliance
Continuing Education Credit: ACHE,
HCCB (6.6 Credits), NASBA-CPE, AAPC n
Upper Midwest Local Conference,
September 15, 2006, Sheraton Bloomington,
Minneapolis, MN
Hot issues to be addressed:
n QIO: The Intersection between Quality
and Compliance
n Enforcement Trends in HealthCare
n Self Disclosure/Overpayments
n The Wave of Change in Government
Enforcement: The DRA and Beyond
n Case Study;: Working Collaboratively
within an Organization to Identify, Investigate,
Analyze, Audit, and Respond to a
Complex Billing Issue
n Electronic Medical Record
Expert faculty includes:
n Julene Brown, CHC, Billing Compliance
Manager, MeritCare Health System,
Fargo, ND
n Shawn DeGroot, CHC, VP, Corporate Compliance,
Regional Health, Rapid City, SD
n Mary Jo Flynn, VP Audit Services (Interim),
Allina Hospitals & Clinics
n Keith Halleland, Program Chair, Shareholder,
Halleland Lewis Niland &
Johnson, PA
n Betsy Jeppesen, Vice President of Program
Integrity, Stratis Health
n Jane McGrath, Program Integrity Analyst,
Stratis Health
n Ron McKinnon, Security Officer, St.
Mary’s/Duluth Clinic Health System
n Kelley Nueske, Director, Regulatory and
Risk Excellian Project, Allina Hospitals
and Clinics
n Jenny O’Brien, Compliance Officer-VP
Compliance and Regulatory Affairs, Allina
Hospitals and Clinics
n Jerry Wilhelm, Assistant United States Attorney,
District of Minnesota
Program Sponsors: Halleland Lewis Nilan
& Johnson, HCCS, MediRegs, MediTract
Co-Sponsors: Atlantic Information Services’
AIS’s Report on Patient Privacy, Guide to
Audit Health Care Billing Practices, Report
on Medicare Compliance, and HIPAA
Guide on Patient Privacy; and HCPro’s
Health Care Auditing Strategies and Strategies
for Health Care Compliance
Continuing Education Credit: ACHE,
HCCB (7.2 Credits), NASBA-CPE, AAPC,
MCLE (MN) n
Northeast Local Conference, September
29, 2006, Hospital Council of Western
Pennsylvania Conference Center,
Warrendale, PA (Pittsburg)
Hot issues to be addressed:
n Perspectives and Insights from the U.S.
Department of Justice
n Pennsylvania’s Response to the Deficit
Reduction Act
n OIG’s Open Letter to Health Care Providers:
Still the Best Open Door for Your
Organization?
n The Future of Compliance Investigations:
Spider Analysis of DR Reimbursed
Inpatient Claims
n Report on a New CMS IT Initiative to
Improve Doctor’s Office Quality – Including
Its Implications for Compliance and
Emerging Public Health Threats
n Compliance Challenges: A Panel Discussion
Expert faculty Includes:
n Eric Balm, Attorney, Sonnenschein Nath
& Rosenthal LLP
n John Beattie, Principal, Director of Healthcare
Operational and Compliance Services,
Parent Randolph, LLC
n Norris Benns, Director, Bureau of Program
Integrity, PA Dept. of Public Welfare
n Deborah Hinton, Healthcare Consultant,
Parente Randolph
n Daniel Jones, Chief Operation Officer,
Quality Insights of Pennsylvania, The
Medicare Quality Im Darice McNelis,
Buchanon Ingersoll & Rooney provement
Organization of PA
n Keith Robbins, Trial Attorney, U.S. Department
of Justice, Washington DC
Program sponsors: MediRegs and Parente
Randolph
Co-Sponsors: Atlantic Information Services’
AIS’s Report on Patient Privacy, Guide to
Audit Health Care Billing Practices, Report
on Medicare Compliance, and HIPAA
Guide on Patient Privacy; and HCPro’s
Health Care Auditing Strategies and Strategies
for Health Care Compliance
Continuing Education Credit: ACHE,
HCCB (7.2 Credits), NASBA-CPE, AAPC,
MCLE (PA) n
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September 2006
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