Fraud And Compliance Year In Review ( 2023): Looking Back, Planning Ahead
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Speaker : WILLIAM MACK COPELAND
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When : Wednesday, September 17, 2025
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Time : 01 : 00 PM EST
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William Mack Copeland, MS, JD, PhD, LFACHE, practices health care law in Harrison, Ohio at the firm of Copeland Law, LLC. A graduate of Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Bill is a frequent author and speaker on health law topics. Copeland is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, American, Ohio and Cincinnati Bar Associations and is a life fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives. A former hospital chief executive officer, he was awarded the American College of Health Care Executives Senior-Level Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award in 2007.
In this webinar, our panel discusses critical trends and developments in healthcare fraud and abuse, compliance, and enforcement in 2023. Topics covered include recent government enforcement initiatives, Stark and Anti-Kickback developments, self-disclosures and settlements, trends, and changes in the industry that will impact healthcare organizations and their contracting and compliance efforts in 2024.
Learning Objectives
- The audience will learn about key case law trends from 2023 to prepare them for risk assessment and analyses in the new year
- The audience will learn about trends in DOJ/OIG compliance guidance to prepare for 2024
- The audience will learn about developments impacting enforcement under the physician self-referral law, Anti-Kickback Statute, and beneficiary inducement
Areas Covered
- Federal False Claims Act
- Federal Anti-Referral Act (Also known as Stark Law)
- Exceptions to Stark Law
- Federal Anti-Kickback Statute
- Safe Harbors providing protection under the AKS
- Enforcement activities
- The OIG’s Advisory Opinions
- The anti-fraud provisions of the Affordable Care Act, and
- What to expect in 2024 and beyond.
Who Should Attend
- Hospital executives, particularly CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CNOs, and CMOs
- Nursing home executives
- Physicians
- Physician practice managers; and
- Other healthcare provider executives
Why Should Attend
This program is designed for healthcare executives, physicians and other healthcare providers and their managers who participate in and receive remuneration from Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal healthcare programs such as TriCare. Recent enforcement actions by the OIG bring home the realization that many activities that are common in other industries are crimes under federal healthcare fraud and abuse laws.
Hospital executives, as well as physicians and/or other health care providers, should be very concerned about the potential for the government to use the AKS as one of the prime methods for enforcing federal fraud and abuse laws. In this webinar, you will learn about the elements of the AKS, along with any new safe harbors that you can rely on for protection against enforcement under these laws. This is important because healthcare fraud and abuse if becoming the focus of these enforcement efforts.
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$160.00
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