Health Care Compliance Certification Program

Sample Schedule

All sessions and breakfast will be held in Room 273, and lunches will be in the Atrium.

 

Day 1: Introduction and Overview


8:30 Registration Opens/Continental Breakfast

9:15 – 10:15 Introduction and Dramatization
Seton Hall Law School Faculty

10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 11:15 Payment Overview
Kathleen Boozang, Seton Hall Law School

11:15 – 12:00 Overview of State Law Compliance

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 2:15 An Integral Approach to Healthcare Compliance Programs – Dealing with the Gray Areas and Ethical Issues
Thomas Goddard, PhD, JD, Booz Allen Hamilton

2:15 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 4:00 Overview of Federal Health Care Programs for Drug and Device Manufacturers
Lynn Shapiro Snyder, Epstein Becker & Green

4:00 – 4:15 Break

4:15 – 5:15 Sarbanes-Oxley and Healthcare Compliance
John Pennett, Amper, Politziner & Mattia

5:15 – 6:30 Cocktail party in Atrium
sponsored by Gibbons PC

 

 

Day 2: Understanding Drug and Device Development and Promotion

 

8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00 Overview of Approval Process for New Drugs
Peter Safir, Covington & Burling

10:00 – 10:10 Break

10:10 – 11:00 Overview of the Approval Process for New Devices
Eugene Lambert, Covington & Burling

11:00 – 11:15 Break

11:15 -12:00 Clinical Research Issues
Eugene Lambert & Peter Safir

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 1:50 Scientific and educational activities -- CME, Promotional Speaker Programs,
Off-label promotion, Phase IV studies
Peter Safir, Covington & Burling

1:50 - 2:50 FDA Requirements for Advertising and Labeling
Stuart Portnoy, M.D., Biologics Consulting Group, Inc.
Chris Zalesky, Johnson & Johnson

2:50 – 3:00 Break

3:00 – 3:30 Promotional Material Review Processes
Chris Zalesky, Johnson & Johnson

3:30 – 3:45 Break

3:45 – 5:15 Introduction to the False Claims Act and the Perspective of Qui Tam Relators’ Counsel
Lesley Ann Skillen, Getnick & Getnick

 

 

Day 3: The Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, and Privacy Laws as Applied to
           the Pharmaceutical and Device Industries

 

8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 11:00 The Anti-kickback Statute and the Safe Harbors
Bruce Levy Gibbons, PC
Mike Bell, Mintz Levin


11:00 – 11:15 Break

11:15 – 12:30 Case studies
Bruce Levy & Mike Bell

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Gary Giampetruzzi, Pfizer

2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45 – 3:45 Federal and State Privacy Laws
Simone Handler-Hutchinson, Seton Hall Law School

3:45 – 4:00 Break

4:00 – 5:15 Understanding Industry Guidance(s)
Kevin McAnaney, Law Office of Kevin G. McAnaney
Katie McDermott, Blank Rome LLP


5:30 – 6:45 Mandatory Working Dinner – Fraud & Abuse Quiz Show (at Newark Club)
All available speakers

 

 

Day 4: Investigations & Enforcement

 

8:30 Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 10:15 Federal and State Enforcement
Jim Sheehan, New York State Medicaid Inspector General
John Krayniak, New Jersey Medicaid Fraud Control Unit


10:15 – 10:30 Break

10:30 – 12:30 Being the Focus of a Government Investigation – Panel Discussion
Robert Hanna, John Krayniak, Jack Hartwig

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

1:30 – 2:30 Medicaid/Medicare Pricing and Other Data Submitted to the Government
Carolyn McElroy, Pacific Pulmonary Services

2:30 – 2:45 Break

2:45 – 3:45 Actions, Penalties, Sentencing
Jack Hartwig, Deloitte

3:45 Concluding remarks
 

If you are interested in shipping your Resource Book, this afternoon a table will be staffed outside of room 273 where you can leave your binder, payment, and shipping information. This table will be staffed through the end of the Program until all attendees have departed.