Fighting Healthcare Fraud and Abuse: The Stakes and Consequences

This webinar will explain the laws that regulate Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) including the Stark law. Attendees will learn how to detect, prevent and report healthcare fraud and abuse.

Why Should You Attend:

Health care fraud is an intentional misrepresentation, deception, or intentional act of deceit for the purpose of receiving greater reimbursement. Health care abuse is reckless disregard or conduct that goes against and is inconsistent with acceptable business and/or medical practices resulting in greater reimbursement.

This webinar will help attendees to identify fraud early, root it out quickly, and protect patients from the harmful consequences of fraud. It will provide a powerful deterrent to would-be perpetrators looking to prey on patients and steal money from taxpayers.

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• Understand Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (FWA) training requirements
• What laws regulate Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
• Describe steps taken to prevent and combat FWA
• Refer suspected FWA to your special investigations unit
• Understand the federal Whistle Blowers Act
• Understand STARK law
• Fraud and abuse case studies
• Increased law enforcement coordination in 2016
• Medicare Part D enforcement
• NPI compromise could lead to fraud charges
• Whistleblower laws

Who Will Benefit:

This webinar will provide valuable assistance to all personnel in medical offices, practice groups, hospitals, academic medical centers, insurers, business associates (shredding, data storage, systems vendors, billing services, etc.). The titles are:

• Compliance Director
• CEO
• CFO
• Insurance Claim Auditors
• Insurance Fraud Examiners
• Privacy Officer
• Security Officer
• Information Systems Manager
• HIPAA Officer
• Chief Information Officer
• Health Information Manager
• Healthcare Counsel/Lawyer
• Office Manager
• Contracts Manager
• Medical Coders
• Medical Billers