New HHS Grant and Contract Oversight: Fraud and Mismanagement Risks, Enforcement Action, Best Practices for Compliance
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
This CLE webinar will guide practitioners through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General's (HHS-OIG) recently published strategic plan to more closely monitor agency grants and contracts for fraud and mismanagement. The panel will provide an overview of the grants and contracts lifecycle along with the inherent risks of abuse in each. The panel will also offer best practices for compliance to mitigate the risk of enforcement action for contractor clients.
Outline
- Introduction
- Purpose of HHS' new initiative
- Grants and contracts lifecycle and fraud/mismanagement risks inherent to each
- Pre-award
- Award
- Post-award
- Closeout
- Strategic plan: safeguarding the integrity of HHS grants and contracts
- Goals and objectives
- Strengthen compliance with requirements throughout the grants and contracts lifecycle
- Promote award practices that achieve program outcomes
- Enhance public trust in HHS awards by mitigating fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement
- Contractor compliance considerations
- Enforcement
- Goals and objectives
- Lessons learned from recent high profile enforcement fraud actions
- Practitioner takeaways
Benefits
The panel will review these and other important considerations:
- What is the purpose of HHS-OIG's strategic plan for increasing oversight of agency grants and contracts?
- What vulnerabilities in the grants and contracts lifecycle increase the risk of fraud and mismanagement?
- What are the agency's objectives in reducing the risk of fraud and mismanagement in the grants and contracts lifecycle? And what types of enforcement action may it use to reach those objectives?
Faculty
Andrea Castronova
Principal
Athena Compliance Partners
Ms. Castronova has over 25 years of experience in healthcare compliance and internal audit. She provides various... | Read More
Ms. Castronova has over 25 years of experience in healthcare compliance and internal audit. She provides various compliance and HIPAA consulting services for various organizations. Ms. Castronova has presented for many professional organizations in the area of compliance effectiveness, compliance investigations, and statistical sampling and auditing. She is Certified in Healthcare Compliance through HCCA, a Certified HIPAA Compliance Officer through AIHC, and is a Certified Internal Auditor.
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Dennis Sapien-Pangindian
Senior Counsel
Epstein Becker & Green
As a litigation and regulatory attorney, Mr. Sapien-Pangindian draws on his enforcement experience at the U.S. HHS OIG... | Read More
As a litigation and regulatory attorney, Mr. Sapien-Pangindian draws on his enforcement experience at the U.S. HHS OIG to represent clients in a range of complex controversies. His practice focuses on government investigations, civil litigation, administrative law challenges, and regulatory compliance matters, with a particular emphasis on health care fraud and abuse, information blocking, grant fraud (e.g., research misconduct) issues, health care business disputes, and FOIA challenges. Mr. Sapien-Pangindian has substantial experience managing internal investigations concerning alleged violations of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and the False Claims Act. He is also well-versed in the information blocking law and regulations that were promulgated under the 21st Century Cures Act. Mr. Sapien-Pangindian helps clients respond to U.S. DOJ and Medicaid Fraud Control Unit subpoenas and demands, develops investigation work plans, and designs and conducts compliance reviews tailored to clients’ needs.
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