2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference
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Don't Freak Out! You Can Survive Multiple CMS Audits at the Same Time-?Here's How
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Ryan Hayden, Rohit Gupta, Rezarta Molla | January 29, 2020
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Payers can gain value from being better prepared and more productive, and can uncover greater operational insights when multiple audits occur at the same time
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Payers can lower their risks by understanding how the same set(s) of data may impact multiple audits; scenario planning these impacts is a valuable activity
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Payers can improve their performance by understanding how overlapping audits impact one another under the Medicare program
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Stress is Stressful
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Cathy Bodnar, Lauren Tockey | January 29, 2020
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Recognize and acknowledge that working in Compliance is incredibly challenging
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Key strategies to identify and interpret work-tasks, the work environment, and the impact on self
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Revitalize your compliance “mission” to strengthen your health plan’s compliance program
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The State of Play for Mental Health Parity
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Tricia Beckmann, Amy Finley | January 29, 2020
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Discerning the state of Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act enforcement under the Trump Administration and avoiding traps for the unwary
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The 21st Century Cures Act of 2016 called for stepped up enforcement and additional guidance; taking stock of what has been done to date, what’s missing, and what might be to come in terms of both state and federal responses
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The intersections between mental health parity law and other coverage mandates and federal nondiscrimination rules
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The WHO, WHY, and HOW of Delegation Oversight
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Christian Puff, Hayley Ellington-Buckles | January 29, 2020
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WHO qualifies as an FDR and how to tell
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WHY perform oversight; rules and regulations
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HOW to do it; steps and best practices
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GENERAL SESSION: The Parity Challenge - Compliance with a Complex Law
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Tim Clement | January 29, 2020
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A family story about the impacts of mental health
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Mental Health Parity and its impact on health plans
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Parity risk areas and how to focus your compliance resources
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Are You Just Checking the Box or Creating Effective Compliance Training?
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): S. Leah Yoder, Shelley Segal | January 29, 2020
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CMS’s expectations of effective training
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Components of effective training
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Catalysts for caring about training
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How to Prepare for 2019 CMS Rule Change to Marketing Materials: ANOCs, EOCs, Summary of Benefits?-?Issues, Impact, Disclosures, and Audits
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Debbie Mabari, Hannah LaMere, Mike Turrell | January 29, 2020
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CMS Expectations: Plans must verify that accurate and complete data is represented on materials; identify benefit changes year-to-year; reduce/eliminate erratas
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Regulatory Changes: Allowing for e-materials means that plans need to be diligent on data presented to members; CMS’s distinguishing between e-communication and e-marketing materials may lead to more focus and scrutiny on these required materials
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Audits and Best Practices: Audit issues; disclosed issues to CMS tied to CPE audit and pre-audit issue summary; beneficiary impact; tracer sample
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Regulators Mount Up: How an Insurance Department Ensures Compliance with Managed Care Plans
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Rachel Chandler | January 29, 2020
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What a Network Adequacy review for a Managed Care Plan entails
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DOs and DON’Ts and PROs and CONs when submitting a Network Adequacy plan for review
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Managed Care Compliance from the perspective of a State agency regulator
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The Importance of Automating Your Monitoring and Auditing
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Pamela Cleveland, Megan Grifa | January 29, 2020
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Do you know where your compliance risk is hiding?
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How do you move your organization to complete risk identification without adding staff?
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Why is a central compliance management solution critical for managing and mitigating risk?
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The Rise of the Virtual Workforce: Compliance Role in Robotic Automation Governance
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Deana Rhoades, John Wells, Sherrie Ryder | January 29, 2020
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With Operations and IT teams collaborating on an automation strategy, the role of Compliance in governance cannot be ignored
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Robotic Process Automation is creating a team of virtual workers — and an additional layer of oversight requirements
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How Compliance can join Business and IT in development of a proper governance strategy
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Understanding Recent Legislative Changes to Coordination of Benefits Practices for Medicaid and CHIP Programs
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Kristen Ballantine, Deborah Grier | January 29, 2020
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An overview of recent and upcoming changes — due to legislative and regulatory activity at the federal and state levels — which will impact coordination of benefits function for Medicaid and CHIP programs and plans
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Plan requirements, with a focus on operational compliance and impact on stakeholders
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Targeted for Medicaid and CHIP plans
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Are You Ready for a Department of Labor Audit?
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Amy Christen | January 28, 2020
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Tips for health insurance issuers on how to prepare for a DOL audit of a group health plan
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Tips for a health insurance issuer on how to work with the DOL and the group health plan sponsor to ensure the completeness of audit responses
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Trends in DOL audits, including areas of focus under PPACA; HIPAA privacy issues that arise in the context of DOL audits; a checklist to track responses
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Hot Topics in Managed Care Compliance
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Ann Beimdiek Kinsella, Sarah J. Lorance, Ann Greenberg | January 28, 2020
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What’s on the priority list for compliance officers
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Program strategies in a time of transformation in the industry
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Sharing best practices and lessons learned
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Detecting and Preventing Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Christina Matsiga | January 28, 2020
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Review of requirements for providers participating in federal and/or state-funded health care programs to detect and prevent fraud, waste, and abuse
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Examples of what constitutes fraud, waste, and abuse; and a look at some case studies
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Possible strategies to identify— as well as prevent— fraud, waste, and abuse
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GENERAL SESSION: CMS Compliance and Enforcement Update
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Kimberly Brandt | January 28, 2020
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Patients Over Paperwork
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Addressing the Opioid Epidemic
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Program Integrity
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A Phish Tale: Lessons Learned from a Successful Phishing Attack in a Managed Care Organization
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Jessica Vander Zanden, Angela Keenan | January 28, 2020
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A Medicare Advantage Plan’s incident-response approach to a phishing attack that resulted in a HIPAA breach of over 500 individuals; lessons learned during and after the investigation
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The obligations and complexities of the overall investigation; reporting to other entities such as the media, OCR, and CMS; the facets of an OCR breach investigation
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Creative and effective post-breach training and communication strategies used by the plan, designed to reduce the likelihood of future breaches
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Crisis Management for Really Busy People: Learn How to Implement an Efficient and Effective Crisis Management Program in Six Easy Steps
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Lee Painter, Ahmed Salim | January 28, 2020
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Putting a crisis management plan in place doesn’t have to be difficult
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Six straightforward steps to prepare for crisis events
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Specific implementation and execution recommendations, including how to overcome obstacles and potential risks to success
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Risk Adjustment Compliance and Operations: Building Meaningful Communications
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Nicole Martin, Dorothy DeAngelis | January 28, 2020
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Bridging the gap between organizational compliance and risk adjustment compliance
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Understanding and collaborating with risk adjustment operations in your organization; an example using PPO member to PCP attribution
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Physician risk adjustment education compliance, internal planning vs external sharing, where do we draw the line?
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Engaging Members through Advocacy and Outreach: Addressing Social and Clinical Needs to Minimize Health Disparities
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Joynicole Martinez | January 28, 2020
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The unique programmatic structure for effective advocacy and outreach to hard-to-reach and hard-to-engage populations
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Methods to connect members to culturally-relevant and socially-constructive resources and assist them as they navigate the system
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Staff and multidisciplinary resources that are the most efficient
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Not for the Faint of Heart: Preparing CMS Tracer Case Summaries
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Anne Crawford, Thomas Wilson, Mary Ann McLean | January 28, 2020
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Key considerations when developing a tracer case summary, including a model template
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Successful strategies for engaging business owners in presenting tracers
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How to incorporate lessons learned from Plans that have been through a CMS CPE Program Audit
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Federally Facilitated Exchange (FFE) Audits: Do You Know the Risk Areas?
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Steve Bunde, Dawn Guzik Stocker | January 28, 2020
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Understand the FFE audit process and areas of focus
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Learn about the FFE audit process
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Identify FFE risk areas and remediation strategies
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GENERAL SESSION: Combating Fraud, Waste, and Abuse in Managed Care
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Megan Tinker | January 28, 2020
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Current trends, vulnerabilities, and developments
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Update on recent FCA cases
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Update on recent and planned OIG Audits and Evaluations
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How Adequate Is Your Provider Network? Applying and Measuring Managed Care Provider Network Compliance Against the New 2018 Requirements
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Jennifer Tryder, Michael Walsh, Kimberly Hornik | January 28, 2020
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Key transition strategies; moving forward from the 2002 Network Access Rule
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Understanding CMS protocols, EQR requirements, and state exceptions for evaluating Network Adequacy standards
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Best practice recommendations for evaluating and following network adequacy requirements under government-approved auditing standards
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Managed Care Expansion in Medicaid and Medicare: Benefits, Challenges, and Compliance
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Denise Leard, Pam Felkins Colbert, Angela Brice-Smith | January 28, 2020
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Understanding managed care private insurance plans vs. Medicare/Medicaid government plans
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Challenges and benefits for beneficiaries and providers in managed care plans for Medicare/Medicaid
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The culture clashes of government programs and private insurers
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Managed Models: The Future of FDR Delegation-?Service Delivery, Service Responsibility, and Service Ability
2019 Managed Care Compliance Conference | Presenter(s): Richard Golfin III | January 28, 2020
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Managed care in California, the nation’s largest Medicaid population
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In California, health plans delegate clinical delivery and clinical services to non-administrative entities
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Large Medicaid populations require innovative approaches to integrated delivery and population management
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