HCCA adds Internal Audit track to 2015 Compliance Institute agenda

MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new educational track – Internal Audit – has been added to the 2015 Compliance Institute agenda, the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) announced today. The Compliance Institute is the largest and most comprehensive compliance conference developed for and by compliance professionals working in the health care industry. It will be held April 19, 2015 - April 22, 2015, Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin, Lake Buena Vista, FL.

"Internal audit is one of the compliance team's greatest allies in its work, with many of the best in our profession coming from this discipline. This track will help strengthen the compliance-internal audit relationship by addressing essential audit issues the compliance profession needs to master," said HCCA Chief Executive Officer Roy Snell.

The CI Internal Audit track will provide conference goers with tools and techniques to aide in compliance audits. It is loaded with useful information to jump-start audit efforts.  HCCA has assembled well regarded internal audit experts to present the following 11 sessions offered over 4 days April 19-22, 2015, that make up the Compliance Institute Internal Audit track:

Sunday:
-How and When to Conduct a Compliance Internal Audit –Speakers: Pali Lipoma, manager, Compliance, MultiCare Health System, and Lori Laubach, principal, Moss Adams LLP
-How and When to Utilize IT Internal Auditors in Compliance – Speaker: Glen Mueller, vice president, Audit, Compliance Information Security, Scripps Health
Monday:
-Effective Monitoring and Auditing Programs – Speaker: Daniel R. Roach, general counsel and chief compliance officer, Optum 360
-What is an Internal Auditor? Speaker: Mark P. Ruppert, director, Internal Audit, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
-Coding, Billing, and Documentation Regarding Inpatient, Outpatient, Ambulatory Surgery, and Physician Patient Accounts – Speaker: Mark Eddy, vice president, Internal Audit, HCA
-Healthcare Technology Audit Basics – Speaker: Jennifer McGill, IT audit director, Carolinas Healthcare System
Tuesday:
-Third-Party Vendors: Are Your Controls Effective? – Speakers: Debi Weatherford, executive director, Internal Audit, Piedmont Healthcare, John Weiss, founder/chief executive officer, The Audit Group, and Michael Paris, vice president, Supply Chain Solutions, Vendormate, Inc.
-Devil in the Details: Compliance Auditing in Quality Indicators – Speaker: Paul Belton, vice president, Corporate Compliance, Sharp HeatlhCare
-Auditing Pharma and Healthcare Providers – Speakers: Mary Riordan, senior counsel, Office of Counsel to the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Sheryl Vacca, senior vice president/chief compliance and audit officer, University of California
Wednesday:
-340B: Part 1 and 340B: Part 2 – Speakers: Debra Muscio, senior vice president, chief audit, ethics and compliance officer, Community Medical Centers, and Karolyn Woo-Miles, senior manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP

More about the 2015 Compliance Institute
The Compliance Institute is the primary education and networking event for professionals working in the healthcare compliance profession. Over the course of four days, conference goers have the opportunity to attend 148 sessions, covering topics such as Physician Payment Sunshine Act, healthcare reform and compliance, internal fraud investigations, hospital physician alignment, compliance effectiveness, and HIPAA privacy/data breach.

2015 Compliance Institute attendees learn the latest methods and strategies for developing and improving their compliance programs in this fast changing health care industry. It offers ten learning tracks: Internal Audit, General Compliance and Hot Topics, Long-Term Care, Privacy & Security, Physician Compliance, Compliance Lawyer, Auditing & Monitoring, Quality of Care, How to Succeed as a Compliance Professional, and Advanced Discussion Groups.

Use this link to access the Compliance Institute website http://www.compliance-institute.org/

About HCCA
The HCCA, established in 1996 and headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, is a non-profit professional membership organization with more than 9,500 members. It is dedicated to improving the quality of compliance. Visit HCCA's website at www.hcca-info.org. Tel: 888/580-8373. 

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