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 Mac Thornton
Sonnenschein Nath Rosenthal LLP, Washington, DC
As OIG Chief Counsel, Thornton was responsible for developing and issuing OIG safe harbors, advisory opinions, fraud alerts, special advisory bulletins and compliance guidance. He is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on health care fraud and abuse and compliance.
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2. You get a toll-free
number to call on the day of the conference. There
is no limit to the number of staff from your office who can listen
to the seminar via speakerphone!*
3.You receive dialing instructions and a link to the audio seminar’s course materials via email, so you can follow along during the presentation.
4. Listen in, follow along with the course materials you’ve printed out, ask questions and get answers that will help you address OIG’s priority enforcement targets in 2005.
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A DecisionHealth Audio Conference
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The government is looking at a new kind of fraud, calling into question the decisions that lead to delivery of care. This means more inquiries into quality of care and unnecessary services. Also ramping up: Kickbacks and Stark violations involving physician relationships with hospitals and device manufacturers. Mac Thornton, Chief Counsel to the HHS Inspector General from 1990 to 2002, tells you how the government is investigating these priority areas. Now a defense attorney, he shares with you his knowledge of OIG strategies and offers practical tactics to help you address this new wave in fraud enforcement. Specifically, he will discuss:
- A new wave of government investigations and
prosecutions challenging medical decisionmaking and alleging unnecessary services by physicians and hospitals.
- False claims cases alleging that patients did not get the quality of care paid for by government and private payers. The government is increasingly characterizing failed or low-quality care as false claims.
- Kickbacks – The government will challenge joint ventures, medical directorships, consultancies, and other physician deals with hospitals and device manufacturers. It’s asking whether decisions about care were driven by the needs of the patient or by commercial affiliations.
- What the government is doing to enforce the Stark prohibitions on physician self-referral and how you can defend your referrals and medical decision-making from being viewed as influenced by profits.
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Approved for 4 CEUs |
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