Mr. Hoffman serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law for the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University. Mr. Hoffman teaches "Regulating Patient Safety", a course focused on systems approaches to protecting patients, research participants and residents of nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
Mr. Hoffman's article titled "Hospice care:
A new compliance frontier" was published in the August 2010 edition of
Compliance Today. Hospice care is an area of increased government enforcement
activities and providers need to be vigilant in complying with the regulations
governing hospice services.
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Mr. Hoffman is a member of the Patient Care Ombudsman team that was appointed
by the United States Trustee for the Central District of California in
the Pacifica Hospital of the Valley, Sun Valley, California case. The
Patient Care Ombudsman team is responsible for monitoring the quality
of care at the hospital while it is in bankruptcy.
Mr. Hoffman’s article, “Failing to Care: How Effective Compliance
Prevents Institutional Elder Neglect” appears in the latest issue
of Marquette University School of Law’s Elder’s Advisor. This
article was authored as part of Mr. Hoffman’s participation in the
Marquette University School of Law’s symposium titled The Kindness
of Strangers: Enhancing Lives Through Long-Term Care.
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Upcoming Events:
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June 6, 2011: Mr. Hoffman will be co-presenting with Deborah Ballantyne, Esq. on the topic "Use of Survey and RUGS Data" at the National Medicaid Fraud Control Units' Resident Abuse Training in Wilmington, Delaware.
May 18, 2011: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at the White and Williams 2011 Health Care Summit: Healthcare Reform and the Future. Mr. Hoffman will be co-presenting with Daniel Feinberg, MD, Chief Medical Officer for Pennsylvania Hospital on the topic "Navigating Never Events."
April 13, 2011: Mr. Hoffman will be moderating a panel
of experts at the Health Care Compliance Association’s 15th Annual
Compliance Institute in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The panel consists
of experts in the area of failure of care cases and a case presentation
will be analyzed from investigation, expert testimony, pre-trial strategies
to dramatic finish.
March 16, 2011: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at the
Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s 17th Annual Health Law Institute in
Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing the role of the Patient
Care Ombudsman (PCO) under the Bankruptcy Code. Mr. Hoffman has served
as a consultant to a PCO in several matters and will be providing case
examples regarding the effectiveness and limitations of the PCO statute.
February 21-23, 2011: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at
the 2011 American Health Lawyers Association Long Term Care and the Law
Program in San Diego, California. Mr. Hoffman will be presenting on the
topic “Developing an Effective Compliance Program for the Small
Provider”. This program will focus on compliance program development
and initiatives for nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
October 21, 2010: Mr. Hoffman will be
teaching a course entitled "Government and Third Party Reimbursement and
Quality of Care Concerns" for Nursing Home Administrators at the University
of the Sciences in Philadelphia. The course focuses on the government's
theories for prosecuting failure of care cases and other care-related
and payment issues.
July 16, 2010: Mr. Hoffman will be attending the invitation-only
South Florida Regional Health Care Fraud Prevention Summit hosted by Attorney
General Eric Holder and Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services in Miami, Florida. This all-day session will
bring together federal, state, and local partners; prosecutors and investigators;
and representatives of both beneficiaries and providers to highlight anti-fraud
efforts, provide information about how patients and companies in the public
and private sector can protect themselves from fraud, and discuss innovative
ways to eliminate fraud in the U.S. health care system.
April 18, 2010: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at the Health Care
Compliance Association’s 14th Annual Compliance Institute in Dallas,
Texas. Mr. Hoffman will be participating in a panel discussion titled
“How to Find and Address the Real Fraud and Abuse in ‘Quality
of Care’”. Mr. Hoffman will be joined on the panel by representatives
from the government and private industry.
March 12, 2010: Mr. Hoffman will be presenting at the
PA Bar Institute’s 16th Annual Health Law Institute in Philadelphia,
PA. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing “Effective Compliance as a Deterrent
to Neglect.”
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