Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Health Law Institute

Health Law Institute Symposium

Hot Topics in Healthcare Compliance: Engage with Leaders

Co-hosted by the Mitchell Hamline Law Review

  • Friday, March 16, 2018
  • 9 am-4 pm
  • Auditorium, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Keynote speaker

Gregory Demske, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services

Mr. Demske leads the 90-person HHS Office of Counsel to the Inspector General (OCIG). OCIG provides all legal services to HHS OIG, including advice on audits, investigations, evaluations, and OIG operations; representation of OIG in civil and administrative fraud enforcement; and issuance of guidance to the health care industry. Mr. Demske oversees all OIG internal legal advice, coordination with the Department of Justice on False Claims Act cases involving HHS, OIG’s civil money penalty and program exclusion enforcement, negotiation and monitoring of corporate integrity agreements, and industry guidance on the anti-kickback statute and other OIG enforcement authorities.

Program

9-10:30 am
Welcome and Introduction
 Panel 1 Effective Business Operations and Compliance

Panelists:
Steve Lokensgard, Partner, Faegre Baker Daniels
Seth Whitelaw, President & CEO, Whitelaw Compliance Consulting Group, LLC.
Ben Wright, Director of Compliance, Sightpath Medical

10:30-10:45 am
Networking Break

10:45-11:45 am
OIG Priorities in 2018

Keynote Speaker:
Gregory Demske, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services

11:45 am-12:45 pm
Lunch

12:45-2:15 pm
Panel 2 Patients and Compliance—Elimination of Bias

Panelists:
Laura Hermer, Professor of Law, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Julie Ralston Aoki, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Public Health Law Center
Maria Christu, General Counsel, Children’s Minnesota

2:15-2:30 pm
Networking Break

2:30-4 pm
Panel 3 Evolution of Healthcare Compliance

Panelists:
Roy Snell, CEO, Health Care Compliance Association and Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics
Jenny O’Brien, Chief Compliance Officer, United HealthCare
Daniel Roach, Chief Compliance Officer, Optum360

Continuing Education Credits

  • Law: 4.5 Standard CLE Credits and 1 Elimination of Bias Credit
  • Nursing: 5.5 CEUs
  • Social Work: TBD
  • Compliance: 6.6 CCB CEUs

Sponsors

  • Mitchell Hamline Health Law Institute
  • Minnesota State Bar Association Food, Drug, and Device Law Section
  • Medica
  • Medtronic

2014 Symposium

The Hamline University Health Law Institute and Hamline Law Review were pleased to present their 2014 Symposium: Health Care Reform Implementation in Minnesota: Mission Advanced But Not Accomplished.

2012 Symposium

The Hamline University Health Law Institute and Hamline Law Review were pleased to present their 2012 Symposium: Legal, Medical, and Ethical Issues in Minnesota End-of-Life Care.