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Course Details

This CLE course will review the latest developments related to healthcare fraud, drawing lessons from recent government investigations and settlements. The panel will prepare healthcare counsel to take proactive steps for compliance.

Description

Federal and state enforcement authorities are vigorously pursuing cases involving healthcare fraud and abuse. Legal counsel and compliance professionals to healthcare providers must develop, implement, and monitor effective compliance programs to minimize risk, mitigate potential claims, and whistleblower actions.

Listen as our authoritative panel of healthcare counsel reviews noteworthy settlements and recent enforcement activity, discusses the significant false claims and healthcare fraud court decisions, and provides proactive compliance measures to take going forward.

Outline

  1. Fraud enforcement trends
    1. Noteworthy settlements
    2. Court decisions
    3. Advisory opinions
    4. CMS enforcement
  2. Strategies for implementing and maintaining compliance programs
    1. Designing a program: Policies and procedures for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse
    2. Implementing a program
    3. Training
    4. Monitoring
    5. Response to violations

Benefits

The panel will discuss the following key issues:

  • Recent fraud and abuse enforcement actions and settlements, including lessons learned.
  • Top government enforcement trends and priorities.
  • Best practices to mitigate risk and limit exposure to claims and whistleblower actions.
  • Key elements of an effective compliance program strategy.