Course Description:
Healthcare organizations have a myriad of regulatory, compliance and governance obligations. Your compliance and Internal audit professionals can play a vital role in governance and strategic risk management, helping you assess risk, address and monitor compliance, improve processes, identify new opportunities, verify operational arrangements and related controls are effective and efficient, and ultimately decrease worry.

Learning Objectives:

• Outline key business risks and compliance considerations
• Review how your compliance and internal audit functions can benefit your health system
• Discuss how to know if internal audit processes or procedures are right for your organization

Discussion Questions:

1. What key issues and risk exist or are emerging post-pandemic?


2. On which areas should your risk-based plans be focused?


3. What questions should we be asking leadership to ensure key risks are being addressed and how does internal audit and compliance function support risk management?

Presenters:
Scott Sisel, CPA, Partner-in-Charge of Health Systems and Internal Audit Services
Scott leads the firm’s Internal Audit services practice. He has served a variety of industries with a focus on the healthcare industry. More specifically, Scott has advised public and private health care organizations, including health systems, health insurers and accountable care and related organizations. He assists organizations in various industries on risk management, internal controls and audit, operational improvement analysis, business restructuring and other regulatory and compliance matters. Scott's expertise also includes risk assessment, risk management, and the development of industry best control practices.

Rachel Pugliano, RHIT, CHC | Senior Manager, Healthcare Consulting
Rachel has over 20 years of experience focusing on revenue cycle risks, which include telehealth emerging risks, coding, documentation improvement and charge capture. Rachel assists our clients with the improvement of their revenue cycle functions as well as maintaining compliance with government regulations. Rachel assesses the overall health and capabilities of an organization's revenue cycle functions, develops coding compliance and documentation improvement strategies for both hospitals and medical group practices and provides internal coding compliance and charge capture assistance to improve coding and charge accuracy. Rachel is a member of AHIMA, HCCA and is on the board for the South Texas HFMA chapter serving as Programs Chair.

CPE Information
CPE Credit: 1
Field of Study: Auditing (Governmental)
Level of Knowledge: Basic
Delivery Method: Group-Internet Based

Additional Information: This is a Group-Internet Based Webinar. No prerequisites or advanced preparation required. For information regarding refund, complaint and program cancellation policies, please contact Amy DeGeorge.