On June 24, GNYHA hosted an all-day conference, “Enhancing Compliance Programs: Fostering Organizational Excellence,” which examined a range of topics critical to the ongoing State and national movement toward an expanded model and scope of organizational compliance programs. Significantly, the conference also kicked off GNYHA’s  new collaborative effort to implement this new model of compliance expected to be outlined in the forthcoming New York State Office of the Medicaid Inspector General (NYS OMIG) Compliance Guidance. 
     
GNYHA developed the conference in response to member requests, and nearly 120 compliance officers, attorneys, finance officers, quality managers, and other related professionals participated in the program, which included presentations on risk area triage; work plan development; responses to non-compliance and other organizational challenges; integration of quality and compliance; metrics and board reporting; expansion of existing compliance programs; and establishment of goals for organizational excellence.
     
In addition, conference participants had the opportunity to respond to GNYHA’s Compliance and Organizational Excellence Survey, which will allow GNYHA staff to update local benchmarks on the composition and objectives of member compliance programs. Finally, GNYHA members were informed of two developing subject-matter workgroups, one that will explore conflicts of interests and one that will endeavor to generate an effective risk assessment tool. 
     
GNYHA members who were unable to attend the conference may access the conference materials and the Compliance Survey on the Compliance section of the GNYHA Web site. If you have questions about the substance of the Conference or GNYHA’s next steps in this area, please contact Deborah Brown at brown@gnyha.org