Category Archives: Industry Topics

Feedback from the sponsors, speakers, and participants of the 2021 HFMA and NEHIA Compliance & Internal Audit Conference

Thank you to our conference sponsors, speakers, and participants. We are glad you could join us in-person this year! What our conference sponsors are saying: “The variety and depth of the conference speakers provided both concrete takeaways and conceptual challenges that can be used to strengthen any internal audit or compliance program.” – Tully Saunders, Manager, Deloitte &… Read More »

Healthcare Capital Finance: Beyond Operational Needs

Recognizing the changing world of health care capital finance, the MA-RI HFMA Capital Finance Committee has taken a new tack that recognizes the changing nature and disruptive forces that will alter the underpinnings of more traditional relationships.  We began this journey on November 17 with a webinar, “Strategic Affiliations: New Models for Capital Financing”. The expert panel assembled… Read More »

Compliance & Internal Audit Conference – Speaker: Destin Harcus

By | November 23, 2021

Meet the speaker for the HFMA MA-RI Chapter and the New England Healthcare Internal Auditors (NEHIA) 3-day in-person educational conference. Destin Harcus, Executive Director of Internal Audit, AdventHealth Tell us about your compliance career journey In my junior year of college I was pursuing an accounting degree but wasn’t sure how I wanted to use that degree to… Read More »

Considerations for COVID-19 Accelerated and Advance Payment (CAAP) Recoupments

The Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payments (AAP) program assists certain types of providers with advances on future claims to help with funding due to a disruption in claims submission or processing. With the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded the existing AAP program on… Read More »

Compliance & Internal Audit Conference – Speaker: Mary Shirley

By | November 2, 2021

Meet the speaker for the HFMA MA-RI Chapter and the New England Healthcare Internal Auditors (NEHIA) 3-day in-person educational conference Mary Shirley, Head of Culture of Integrity and Compliance Education at Fresenius Medical Care – Presenting on: Compliance Programs in Organizations outside of Healthcare Tell us about your compliance career journey I have been very fortunate that Compliance… Read More »

Compliance & Internal Audit Conference – Speakers: Amy Kelly and Thomas Williams

By | October 26, 2021

The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) MA-RI Chapter and the New England Healthcare Internal Auditors (NEHIA) are excited to jointly present this highly anticipated 3-day in-person educational conference. The conference attracts compliance, internal audit, and healthcare finance professionals from throughout New England to learn from expert presenters in healthcare compliance, privacy, security, and internal auditing. Q&A with the… Read More »

Compliance & Internal Audit Conference – Meet the Speakers: Donna Schneider

By | October 19, 2021

HFMA-NEHIA Compliance & Internal Audit Conference – Speaker Q&A – Donna Schneider, RN, MBA, CPHQ, CPC-P, CHC, CPCO, CHPC, CCEP Vice President, Corporate Compliance & Internal Audit, Lifespan, Providence, RI Tell us about your compliance career journey – I am a registered nurse with a master’s in business administration. After some time in various clinical settings and managed… Read More »

Compliance & Internal Audit Conference – Meet the Speakers – Julie Nee, the Jon Gordon Companies

By | October 12, 2021

The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) MA-RI Chapter and the New England Healthcare Internal Auditors (NEHIA) are excited to jointly present this highly anticipated 3-day in-person educational conference. The conference attracts compliance, internal audit, and healthcare finance professionals from throughout New England to learn from expert presenters in healthcare compliance, privacy, security, and internal auditing. Q&A with the… Read More »

How to Identify Medicaid-Eligible Days for Initial and Amended Cost Reports

In late 2014, a Provider Reimbursement Review Board’s (PRRB) decision highlighted numerous issues supporting the need for hospitals to perform retrospective reviews of initial Medicare Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) calculations. The case of Barberton Citizens Hospital v CGS Administrators, LLC/Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (Barberton) led to a series of changes—including both PRRB actions and Centers for… Read More »