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Telehealth and CMS: Bringing Care to the Patient

Dr. Scott H. Lawrence Acting Deputy Director, Division of Practitioner Services, CMS

• Understand 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


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Expanding the Use of Telehealth: Business and Legal Implications

Liz Whalley Buono Partner Hancock Daniel

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

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Emerging Areas of Fraud and Abuse Enforcement

James Sheehan Chief, Charities Bureau NY Attorney General
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

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Compliance and Clinicians: Infectious Disease Compliance Issues and Related Surveys and Inspections Considerations

Dr. Peter Buckley Dean, School of Medicine, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs VCU Health System
Mary Malone Partner Hancock Daniel

• 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

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Remote Compliance: Maintaining Effectiveness During Crisis

Lori Foley Managing Principal of Compliance PYA, P.C.
Kristen Davidson Manager PYA, P.C.

• 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 M. 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

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