Carolyn Fitzhugh McNiven, Partner, DLA Piper to Speak at KC’s Understanding the New System: Final Rule on Fraud Prevention in Medicaid, Medicare and CHIP Live Webcast
New York, NY, June 29, 2011 --(PR.com)-- The Knowledge Group/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series, the leading producer of regulatory focused webcasts, has announced that Carolyn Fitzhugh McNiven, Partner (Former Federal Prosecutor), DLA Piper will speak at the Knowledge Congress’ webcast entitled: “Understanding the New System: Final Rule on Fraud Prevention in Medicaid, Medicare and CHIP Live Webcast.” This event is scheduled on October 3, 2011 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM ET. (For more details, please visit: http://www.knowledgecongress.org/event_2011_Fraud_Prevention.html)
Event Synopsis:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule effective March 25, 2011, which enacts a number of program integrity provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). These provisions aim to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
The guidance focuses primarily on the new & technically complicated enrollment processes for Healthcare providers and suppliers and CMS’s expanded authority to impose payment suspensions.
Healthcare providers and suppliers will need to work closely with their compliance and corporate counsel/officers to ensure that an effective process is in place.
The Knowledge Group is assembling a panel of key thought leaders and experts to give insights of the most important issues. This 2-hour webcast will discuss the following key provisions:
- New Medicare provider and supplier screening procedures
- Screening methods performed under the Medicare program
- Who are affected?
- Application fees on Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP
- CMS amendment to 42 C.F.R. §§ 405.370 through 405.372
- Withholding payments
- Future of payment suspensions and compliance plans
- Other Provisions
About Carolyn Fitzhugh McNiven
Carolyn McNiven, a former federal prosecutor, handles white collar criminal defense and related administrative, regulatory and compliance matters for individuals and companies and has particular expertise in the areas of health care, food and drug, and FCPA compliance counseling, risk assessment and litigation.
She has experience handling fraud, antitrust, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), public corruption, tax, Dodd-Frank whistleblower investigations and securities matters and providing compliance counseling to public and private entities. For health care sector clients, she provides anti-kickback and Stark Act advice, risk assessments, False Claims Act (FCA) defense and loss computations, fraud and FCA due diligence, qui tam defense, and defense of misbranding and other food and drug offenses. She also has extensive experience in provider-side health care fraud enforcement and serves as DLA Piper's point person on food safety issues.
From 1997 to 2010, Ms. McNiven worked for the US Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago and, from 2004 to 2010, as Deputy Chief of the Financial Frauds and Special Prosecutions Section.
During her distinguished career as an AUSA, Ms. McNiven handled numerous high-profile investigations and prosecutions. These included actions concerning sitting government officials, corporate executives, medical professionals, health care systems, manufacturers, providers and large multinational corporations. She handled FCPA investigations, bank fraud prosecutions, criminal tax prosecutions, and investigation and prosecution of kickbacks, Ponzi schemes and other financial fraud matters. She successfully prosecuted the first United States Foreign Service Officer convicted of bribery and corruption – obtaining the district's then highest sentence ever for a white collar defendant – and received numerous law enforcement commendations for her outstanding anti-fraud and anti-corruption work.
Since joining DLA Piper as a partner, Ms. McNiven has handled a variety of sensitive anti-trust, public corruption, health care and tax matters as well as provided compliance and white collar counseling for clients. In January 2011, she was an invited guest lecturer at the Association of Corporate Counsel, SF Bay Area Chapter, speaking on "Hot Topics 2011: Ethics for the General Counsel Facing the Brave New World of Government Investigations."
About DLA Piper
In the US, DLA Piper represents many of the world’s leading companies across industries, as well as emerging businesses, financial institutions and professional firms. It offers legal counsel on a wide range of issues in every major business, financial and technology center in the US, where its lawyers have both local and national experience. Globally, it has 4,200 lawyers in 30 countries, enabling it to offer its clients comprehensive cross-border counsel wherever they need it.
For more information about Carolyn Fitzhugh McNiven and DLA Piper, please visit: www.dlapiper.com.
About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series
The Knowledge Congress was established with the mission to produce unbiased, objective, and educational live webinars that examine industry trends and regulatory changes from a variety of different perspectives. The goal is to deliver a unique multilevel analysis of an important issue affecting business in a highly focused format. To contact or register to an event, please visit: www.knowledgecongress.org.
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Event Synopsis:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final rule effective March 25, 2011, which enacts a number of program integrity provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). These provisions aim to reduce fraud, waste and abuse in Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
The guidance focuses primarily on the new & technically complicated enrollment processes for Healthcare providers and suppliers and CMS’s expanded authority to impose payment suspensions.
Healthcare providers and suppliers will need to work closely with their compliance and corporate counsel/officers to ensure that an effective process is in place.
The Knowledge Group is assembling a panel of key thought leaders and experts to give insights of the most important issues. This 2-hour webcast will discuss the following key provisions:
- New Medicare provider and supplier screening procedures
- Screening methods performed under the Medicare program
- Who are affected?
- Application fees on Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP
- CMS amendment to 42 C.F.R. §§ 405.370 through 405.372
- Withholding payments
- Future of payment suspensions and compliance plans
- Other Provisions
About Carolyn Fitzhugh McNiven
Carolyn McNiven, a former federal prosecutor, handles white collar criminal defense and related administrative, regulatory and compliance matters for individuals and companies and has particular expertise in the areas of health care, food and drug, and FCPA compliance counseling, risk assessment and litigation.
She has experience handling fraud, antitrust, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), public corruption, tax, Dodd-Frank whistleblower investigations and securities matters and providing compliance counseling to public and private entities. For health care sector clients, she provides anti-kickback and Stark Act advice, risk assessments, False Claims Act (FCA) defense and loss computations, fraud and FCA due diligence, qui tam defense, and defense of misbranding and other food and drug offenses. She also has extensive experience in provider-side health care fraud enforcement and serves as DLA Piper's point person on food safety issues.
From 1997 to 2010, Ms. McNiven worked for the US Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago and, from 2004 to 2010, as Deputy Chief of the Financial Frauds and Special Prosecutions Section.
During her distinguished career as an AUSA, Ms. McNiven handled numerous high-profile investigations and prosecutions. These included actions concerning sitting government officials, corporate executives, medical professionals, health care systems, manufacturers, providers and large multinational corporations. She handled FCPA investigations, bank fraud prosecutions, criminal tax prosecutions, and investigation and prosecution of kickbacks, Ponzi schemes and other financial fraud matters. She successfully prosecuted the first United States Foreign Service Officer convicted of bribery and corruption – obtaining the district's then highest sentence ever for a white collar defendant – and received numerous law enforcement commendations for her outstanding anti-fraud and anti-corruption work.
Since joining DLA Piper as a partner, Ms. McNiven has handled a variety of sensitive anti-trust, public corruption, health care and tax matters as well as provided compliance and white collar counseling for clients. In January 2011, she was an invited guest lecturer at the Association of Corporate Counsel, SF Bay Area Chapter, speaking on "Hot Topics 2011: Ethics for the General Counsel Facing the Brave New World of Government Investigations."
About DLA Piper
In the US, DLA Piper represents many of the world’s leading companies across industries, as well as emerging businesses, financial institutions and professional firms. It offers legal counsel on a wide range of issues in every major business, financial and technology center in the US, where its lawyers have both local and national experience. Globally, it has 4,200 lawyers in 30 countries, enabling it to offer its clients comprehensive cross-border counsel wherever they need it.
For more information about Carolyn Fitzhugh McNiven and DLA Piper, please visit: www.dlapiper.com.
About The Knowledge Group, LLC/The Knowledge Congress Live Webcast Series
The Knowledge Congress was established with the mission to produce unbiased, objective, and educational live webinars that examine industry trends and regulatory changes from a variety of different perspectives. The goal is to deliver a unique multilevel analysis of an important issue affecting business in a highly focused format. To contact or register to an event, please visit: www.knowledgecongress.org.
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