Events

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.”

December 16, 2009: Mr. Hoffman will be co-presenting a Health Care Compliance Association sponsored webinar session entitled: Under the OIG Microscope: Hospice, Homecare, and LTC Facilities in Close Focus. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing the implications of the 2010 OIG Workplan on long-term care facilities.

October 14, 2009: Mr. Hoffman will be serving as a moderator for a panel discussion entitled “Hospice Care: The New Frontier for Compliance & Enforcement” at The Eastern Pennsylvania Geriatrics Society’s Fall Program. The panelists include Margaret Hutchinson, Assistant United States Attorney and Deborah Way, MD, Medical Director for Hospice of Philadelphia.

September 23, 2009: Mr. Hoffman will be teaching a course entitled “Government and Third Party Reimbursement” for Nursing Home Administrators at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

October 12, 2009: Mr. Hoffman will be lecturing at the Health Care Compliance Association’s Quality of Care Compliance Conference in Philadelphia. Mr. Hoffman’s presentation is entitled “How Effective Compliance Assists in Ensuring Patient Safety”.

October 22, 2009: Mr. Hoffman will be co-presenting with Diane Menio, Executive Director of CARIE, at the 34th National Citizen’s Coalition for Nursing Home Reform (NCCNHR) Annual Meeting and Conference in Washington, D.C. Mr. Hoffman’s presentation is entitled “Care Transition from Hospital to Long Term Care: Why Advocacy is Critical.” Mr. Hoffman will be discussing results emanating from a state grant awarded to his firm by the Pennsylvania Department of Aging that focused on patient advocacy during the hospital discharge planning process.

June 25, 2009: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units’ Resident Abuse Training Program in Baltimore, Maryland. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing Corporate Integrity, Exclusions and License issues.

August 19, 2008: David Hoffman will be teaching a seminar on the Role of Government to nursing home administrators at the Marriott Courtyard in Plymouth Meeting, PA. This seminar is sponsored by The Institute for Continuing Education & Research (ICER) and is intended for licensed nursing home administrators and those intending to become nursing home administrators.

September 5, 2008: David Hoffman will be presenting at the Health Care Compliance Association’s New England Regional Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Hoffman will be speaking about “Quality and Compliance” and how effective compliance by providers can avoid institutional neglect.

September 29, 2008: David Hoffman will be speaking at the Health Care Compliance Association’s Quality of Care conference in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Hoffman’s presentation is titled “Assisted Living: The Next Quality Compliance Frontier”.

June 7, 2008: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at the 2008 Health Law Professors Conference sponsored by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and the Drexel University College of Law. Mr. Hoffman will be speaking about human research participant protection and will be joined by Paul Gelsinger, the father of Jesse Gelsinger, a research participant who died during a clinical study. The conference will be held at the Drexel University College of Law.

May 20, 2008: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at the Current Legal Issues in Long-Term Care: Part II, Risk Management in Light of Enhanced Whistleblower Attention conference in Fort Washington, PA. This conference is co-sponsored by the Widener University School of Law and the Delaware State Bar Association. Mr. Hoffman’s presentation is titled “Risk Management in Hospitals and Long-Term Care: A Pro-Active Approach.”

April 24, 2008: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at the Philadelphia Area Society for HealthCare Risk Management's Spring Conference. The title of the conference is Quality As A Focus of Compliance and will be held at the ECRI Institute in Plymouth Meeting, PA. Mr. Hoffman's presentation is titled "Compliance as a Deterrent to Neglect.".

March 28, 2008: Mr. Hoffman will be lecturing at the Marquette University Law School's Elder's Advisor Symposium on Long Term Care Quality. The lecture is part of an all-day symposium titled "The Kindness of Strangers: Enhancing Lives Through Long Term Care". Mr. Hoffman's presentation is titled "Failing to Care: How Effective Compliance Prevents Institutional Elder Neglect".

December 6, 2007: Mr. Hoffman has been selected to participate in a roundtable discussion on Long-Term Care Boards of Directors and Quality of Care oversight, co-sponsored by the HHS-Office of Inspector General and the Health Care Compliance Association in Washington, DC. The participants will be exploring ways to provide support to boards of directors regarding their quality of care oversight responsibilities.

November 5, 2007: Mr. Hoffman will be a panelist at the 49th Annual National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) meeting in Washington, D.C. The title of the session is: “American Compliance Idol—Vote for the Most Entertaining or Essential Element of a Compliance Program.” Mr. Hoffman will be joined on the panel by representatives from numerous governmental agencies including the National Science Foundation, the HHS-Office of Inspector General and the NIH.

October 30, 2007: Mr. Hoffman will be a panelist at the Current Legal Issues in Long-Term Care: Part II symposium to be held at the Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware. The panelists will be addressing “Risk Management in the Shadow of False Claims…What to Do When the Worst Happens…” The symposium is intended to bring together leading academics, practicing lawyers and government officials to discuss how health care providers should handle issues related to risk management and government enforcement activities.

October 22, 2007: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at the Greater New York Hospital Association in New York City. The Association is hosting a Chief Executive Officers briefing titled: The Intersection of Quality, Governance, and Compliance. Mr. Hoffman will be speaking on strategies to test care delivery systems to avoid government scrutiny, including clinical and regulatory compliance approaches.

October 9, 2007: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at the AHCA/NCAL/MCEF 58th Annual Convention & Exposition in Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing quality of care litigation and compliance strategies to avoid government investigations.

October 1, 2007: Mr. David Hoffman will be speaking at the Health Care Compliance Association’s Quality of Care Compliance Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Hoffman’s session is titled: “Resident Safety: A Legal and Clinical Approach to Assuring Quality Care through Compliance.”

July 25, 2007: Free Live Webcast with David Hoffman
Topic: The Deficit Reduction Act and Compliance in a Noncompliant World
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June 14, 2007: Mr. David Hoffman will be speaking at the 9th Annual Pennsylvania Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators (PANAC) in State College, Pa. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing legal issues and the nurse assessment coordinator.

May 17, 2007: Mr. David Hoffman will be speaking at the 2007 ABA Health Care Fraud Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana. The panel discussion is entitled “Criminal and Civil Enforcement Involving Quality of Care and Medical Necessity and Reasonableness of Health Care Services.” Mr. Hoffman will be joined by defense counsel and federal and state prosecutors for this presentation.

May 10, 2007: David Hoffman will be speaking at the California Attorney General's Elder Abuse Conference in San Francisco, California. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing various criminal and civil enforcement approaches to prosecuting elder abuse cases.

April 18, 2007: David Hoffman will be speaking at the New Directions in Chronic Wound Care Management Interactive Workshop in Harrisburg, PA. The focus will be on “The Art of Documentation” with a workshop on defending documentation at trial.

March 14, 2007: Mr. David Hoffman and Ms. Marie Boltz will be speaking at the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s 13th Annual Health Law Institute in Philadelphia, PA. Their session is titled “Patient Safety: Are We Even Close?” This session will examine regulatory requirements and clinical strategies to assure resident safety for individuals residing in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. We will also be analyzing recent prosecutions and offering legal and clinical approaches to avoiding government enforcement actions.

February 28, 2007: Mr. David Hoffman will be a panelist for an ABA Health Law Section-sponsored teleconference titled “Nursing Home Quality Prosecutions.” This 90-minute program will focus on recent prosecutions that involved patterns of abuse and neglect in nursing homes in an attempt to establish that the quality of care in the homes was so substandard as to constitute a fraud on the Medicare/Medicaid programs.

February 22-23, 2007: Mr. David Hoffman will be speaking at the American Health Lawyers Association, Long Term Care and the Law program in Orlando, Florida. The session is titled, “Compliance in a Non-Compliant World” with the focus of the discussion on assisting long-term care providers and their counsel on assuring quality care through implementation of legal and clinical compliance measures.

December 7-8, 2006: Mr. Hoffman will be speaking at the national Long-Term Care Litigation conference in Tampa, Florida on. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing the federal False Claims Act and its application to quality of care cases.

September 28, 2006: Mr. David Hoffman will be speaking at the annual meeting of the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing how to identify nursing home neglect and appropriate remedies from an enforcement perspective.

September 6 - 7, 2006: Mr. David Hoffman will be presenting at 2 sessions at the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association (NHCAA) Institute for Health Care Fraud Prevention’s 2006 “Legal Issues in Health Care Fraud” Program in Philadelphia, PA. Mr. Hoffman will be discussing quality of care and fraud issues.

June 27, 2006: Mr. David Hoffman will be speaking at a one day seminar for Nursing Home Administrators sponsored by the Institute for Continuing Education & Research. The title of the program is “Issues & Practical Answers on Fraud, Abuse, Medication Diversion and Geriatric Sexuality. The seminar will be held at the Holiday Inn City Line in Philadelphia, PA.

June 15, 2006: Mr. David Hoffman will be presenting a training program on dementia and elder abuse for law enforcement personnel in Allegheny County at the Allegheny County Training Academy in conjunction with the Greater PA Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.

June 13, 2006: Mr. David Hoffman will be presenting a training program on dementia and elder abuse for law enforcement personnel in Montgomery County at the Montgomery County Training Academy in conjunction with the Delaware Valley Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.

May 25, 2006: Mr. David Hoffman will be speaking in Wilmington, Delaware at the Health Law 2006, Regulatory Enforcement Priorities program sponsored by the Health Law Section of the Delaware State Bar Association. Mr. Hoffman’s topic is “Federal Health Law Enforcement Update and Compliance Guidance”.