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National Medical Banking Institute
Date: October 2002
Event: 5th National HIPAA Summit
Location: Baltimore, MD
Synopsis:
This educational event was held at the 5th National
HIPAA Summit in Baltimore, MD, on October, 2002 as a
special preconference symposium (IV). It was the first
cross-industry event that focused totally on medical
banking topics and included a number of government regulators
speaking and in the audience, commercial banks, IT firms,
attorneys, press correspondents and others. The forum
encouraged an open and frank discussion between commerce
and the regulators present.
Final Agenda:
8:00 – 9:00: HIPAA Fundamentals for Medical Bankers
Presented by:
Alan
Goldberg, Partner, Goulston & Storrs, Washington, DC;
Chair, National HIPAA Summit Conference Series
9:00 – 9:30: CMS HIPAA Update
Presented by: Stanley
Nachimson,
Senior Technical Advisor for the HIPAA Project Team,
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Washington,
DC
9:30 - 10:30: The Clearinghouse Debate
in Medical Banking: What is its significance and how
will it be
resolved?
Panelists and Presenters:
John Casillas, Founder, Medical Banking Project; Chair,
Medical Banking Institute
Stanley Nachimson, Senior Technical Advisor for the
HIPAA Project Team, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, Washington, DC
Tom Gilligan,
Executive Director, Association for Electronic Health
Care Transactions, Washington,
DC
10:30 – 11:00: BREAK
11:00 – 12:00: HIPAA and Healthcare
Credit Practices: Congressional Action Needed?
Presenters:
John Casillas, Chair,
Medical Banking Institute; then Panel Discussion
Richard Marks (Moderator), Partner,
Davis Wright Tremaine, LLC., and Chair, Computer Law
Division Science & Technology
section for American Bar Association, Washington,
DC
Tom Hanks, Director
HIPAA Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Co-chair, WEDi
Privacy Policy Advisory Group, Chicago,
IL
Debbie Larios,
Healthcare Attorney, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis,
Nashville, TN
Bob McCarrick, Senior Vice
President, GE Capital Healthcare Financial Services,
Chevy Chase, MD
12:00 – 1:00: LUNCH
1:00 – 2:15: 7th HIPAA POLICY
ROUNDTABLE WEBCAST| HIPAA Certification for Banks
John
Casillas (Moderator),
Chair, Medical Banking Institute
The HIPAA
Gang
Special Guest: Larry Watkins, VP/COO
Claredi Corporation; Co-chair of ANSI X12N Healthcare
Task Group; Co-Chair
of WEDI SNIP, Kaysville, UT
2:15 – 3:15: HIPAA & Lockbox Processing
Compliance Strategies Presentation & Panel:
Anthony Higgins (Moderator), Esq., Shaw
Pittman, LLC.; co-author: "E-Commerce: The Financial Services
Sector in the US"; contributing author: "21st
Century Money, Banking & Commerce" (NACHA
1998), Washington, DC
George Rees, National Product Manager,
Advanced Financial Solutions, Inc, Oklahoma City,
OK
Gail Sausser, JD., Rose Health Law Group; Chair of
HFMA HIPAA@Work Task Force, Seattle, WA
3:15 - 4:15: HIPAA & The ACH Network
Compliance
Issues Presentation & Panel:
Rick Morrison, President, Medical Banking
Institute; CEO, Remettra, Inc.; Member of the Banking
Industry HIPAA Task Force, Little Rock, AR
Oliver Ireland, Esq., Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster,
LLP and former Associate General Counsel, Federal Reserve
System, Washington, DC
Tom Hanks, Director HIPAA Practice, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Co-chair, WEDi
Privacy Policy Advisory Group, Chicago, IL
John Casillas (Moderator), Chair, Medical
Banking Institute
4:15 – 5:15: Managing Business Associate
Contracts in Medical Banking
Presented by: Debbie Larios,
JD, Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, Nashville,
TN
5:15-: Blending eHealth and eFinance | New
HIPAA-Derived Cash Management Strategies Presentation/Moderation/Q&A
Presenters:
John Casillas, Chair,
Medical Banking Institute
Gail Hoffman, Principal, Hoffman Business Advisors,
New York
Don Post, Partner & General Manager,
IMERGE Consulting, Inc.; Chair of TAWPI-IMERGE Technical
Workgroup for
Medical Banking Issues and cross-industry Webinar series,
Cary, IL
Penny
Weinhold, Executive Director of Practice Management
Systems, Dimensions Healthcare System, Burtonsville,
MD
Adjourn
