OIG Compliance Program Guidance

Program Description:

Were you aware that the OIG is in the process of revamping its compliance program guidance for the health care industry? You will hear a review the new OIG General Compliance Program Guidance, what your organization needs to do to stay in compliance, and what the future holds.

HCSSA Topic(s) Addressed:

• §558.259[d][4] agency responsibilities
• §558.260[a][3] basic principles of management in a licensed health-related setting
• §558.260[a][4]ethics

Education-Training Credits:

• TX HCSSA Administrator/Alternate Continuing Education
  • 1.0 Clock Hr(s)

About the Presenter(s): Heidi Kocher

Ms. Kocher is a partner with Liles Parker and has over 20 years of experience in health care legal and compliance-related issues, representing all kinds of health care providers of all size. Her experience includes serving as a chief privacy officer and interim chief compliance officer at a medical device manufacturer. She also served as an outside compliance expert to a hospital and a clinical laboratory that were under Corporate Integrity Agreements. She has significant reimbursement experience, responding to and defending audits, addressing coverage policy issues, challenging denials, recoupments, and loss of billing privileges, obtaining HCPCS codes, and other reimbursement related issues. Her experience also includes implementing Corporate Integrity Agreements, guiding clients through voluntary self-disclosures and seeking advisory opinions from the OIG. In acknowledgement of her expertise, Ms. Kocher has served as a lecturer in the Biomedical Engineering department at the University of Texas at Dallas. Ms. Kocher is licensed in Texas and Maryland and Certified in Healthcare Compliance.