Can? Should? Must? What’s New from the OIG

Includes a Live Web Event on 02/11/2025 at 2:00 PM (EST)

The Nursing Facility ICPG together with the OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG), which applies to all individuals and entities involved in the health care industry, serves as OIG’s updated and centralized source of “voluntary” compliance program guidance for nursing facilities. Nursing facilities can use the ICPG to help identify their own risks and to assist in ensuring they are implementing an effective compliance and quality program to reduce those risks.

These resources are not one-size-fits-all, comprehensive, or all-inclusive of compliance and quality considerations or risks for nursing facilities. While OIG uses the word “should” in the Nursing Facility ICPG and GCPG to present their guidance, the OIG does make clear the areas of focus they believe need to be covered in an effective Compliance Program.

Please join us as we walk through the latest and greatest publication from the OIG, remember, you can never be too sure!

Objectives:

Define the Nursing Facility Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program
Discuss options for expanding and auditing to ensure your program meets the recommendations
Identify tools in the OIG program that may enhance your current program

Attendees will be awarded 1.00 ANCC contact hours for completing the course/webinar.
Program Start Date: 02/11/2025 | Program Review Date 02/10/2028

This program has been submitted for Continuing Education for 1.00 total participant hours from NAB/NCERS.
NAB Approval #20260210-1-A109272-DL

Call the HealthCap Education Coordinator at 734-996-2700 for further information.

Angie Szumlinski, LNHA, RN, GERO-BC, RAC-CT, BS

Director of Risk Management

HealthCap Risk Management Services

Ms. Szumlinski is a nationally-recognized leader in long-term care, with a wealth of experience in virtually every operational and clinical aspect of the industry. She has experience as an Owner/Provider, Administrator, Director of Nursing, Corporate Quality Assurance Coordinator, and independent consultant. In the last 8 years, she has personally conducted over 1,000 on-site risk management visits at facilities across the country, touching every acuity level within the long-term care spectrum. As aA nationally recognized presenter for health care associations on current trends and best practices in the long-term care industry, Ms. Szumlinski is the author of hundreds of best-practice bulletins, in-service modules, and has hosted hundreds of risk management seminars across the country. Respected for success in assisting facilities in achieving and maintaining regulatory compliance, Ms. Szumlinski served two terms as an Associate Board Member for NCAL, is a member of the AHCA Survey/Regulatory Committee and served as a team leader for the AHCA/NCAL Quality Award program for 8 years. Ms. Szumlinski is the Nurse Planner for HealthCap Risk Management’s American Nursing Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) accredited education program.

John P. Hessburg, JD

Principal, Kitch Attorneys & Counselors

Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook

John Hessburg leads the Senior Living Practice Group at Kitch Attorneys & Counselors. He began his career with the Kitch firm as a law clerk in 1984. His experience extends to all aspects of state and federal regulation of Senior Living Providers, national coordination of medical device liability cases and medical malpractice defense litigation. Since establishing the firm’s senior living practice, he has built a multidisciplinary practice that focuses on the myriad of challenges his clients face on a daily basis, which include general healthcare and regulatory compliance, corporate compliance, federal and state administrative law, defense of state and federal false claim actions, as well as professional negligence claims.

Mr. Hessburg received his J.D. from Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, where he was the Managing Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy. He also received a Bachelor of Arts in Business and Economics from St. John University, where he was a four-year All American swimmer and an NCAA Merit Scholarship recipient.

He has been working with HealthCap® since it wrote its first policy over 20 years ago.