Roy Snell Health Care Regulatory and Compliance Writing Competition

 

 

The Roy Snell Health Care Regulatory & Compliance Writing Competition competition recognizes law students for innovative, strategic, and sound approaches to tackling complex contemporary health care regulatory and compliance issues. The first-place winner receives a $5000 cash award, paid registration for the 2022 HCCA Annual Compliance Institute (valued at over $1,500), and up to $1500 in travel and conference-related expenses. The second-place winner receives a $3000 cash award, paid registration for the 2022 HCCA Annual Compliance Institute, and up to $1500 in travel and conference-related expenses. The third-place winner receives a $1500 cash award, paid registration for the 2022 HCCA Annual Compliance Institute, and up to $1500 in travel and conference-related expenses.

About the Competition

In keeping with Roy Snell’s keen interest in practical, realistic, and user-centered communication, as well as a commitment to efficiency and clarity in writing, this demanding competition requires students to analyze a hypothetical fact pattern (the Competition Problem) involving an organization facing multifaceted health care regulatory/compliance matters and draft two separate internal memoranda to two different recipients within the organization. Students must analyze the facts presented, identify any and all regulatory/compliance concerns, and advise the recipient of the memorandum. While these two internal memoranda address the same hypothetical situation and subject matter, they are to be drafted with a specific audience/reader in mind. Content must be customized to a particular audience/reader to optimize understanding, engagement, and responsiveness.

The competition honors Roy Snell, the distinguished and highly regarded former CEO of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE), for his visionary leadership and extraordinary contributions to the field of Health Care Compliance. Roy Snell lends his name to the competition to support new and emerging leaders in health care compliance.

Previous Competition Details 

2020 Winners and Problem 

Judging Panel

Shirley Qual
VP of Compliance Operations & Chief Compliance Audit Officer, Retired

Michael Loucks
Partner, Health Care and Life Sciences, Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates

Kristin Rand JD, MA
Head, Corporate Compliance & Global Risk Officer
Moderna

Mark Gardner, MBA, JD
Managing Attorney
Gardner Law

Gabriel Imperato, JD
Managing Partner
Nelson Mullins

About the Competition Sponsor

 

The Roy Snell Health Care Regulatory & Compliance Writing Competition is made possible in part by generous support from the Health Care Compliance Association.

Who May Enter

The Roy Snell Health Care Regulatory & Compliance Writing Competition is open to all full and part-time law students in J.D. programs who have completed their 1L year.   The Competition is also open to students currently enrolled in a Compliance Certification Board (CCB) accredited Health Care Compliance Certificate Program.

Prizes

• 1st Place:        $5000 cash prize
  Paid registration for the 2022 HCCA Annual Compliance Institute (valued at over $1,500)
  Up to $1500 in travel and conference-related expenses.
• 2nd Place:      $3000 cash prize
  Paid registration for the 2022 HCCA Annual Compliance Institute
  Up to $1500 in travel and conference-related expenses.
• 3rd Place:      $1500 cash prize
  Paid registration for the 2022 HCCA Annual Compliance Institute
  Up to $1500 in travel and conference-related expenses.

FAQs

• Will there be 1 submission, or 2?
  • For the 2021 problem, there will be 2 submissions. There should be a spot for each on the submission form.
• How will submissions be anonymous?
  • When a submission is made, the Program Administrator will assign each submission a number and give them to the judges.  Once the judges have scored all submissions, names will be reviled.