Staff
Members of the professional staff for Compliance & Risk Dynamics
(C & RD) have years of experience and exposure to issues surrounding
the life science and healthcare industries. This experience comes
from their roles in healthcare oversight for federal agencies charged with
investigations, audits, policy development and surveys of medical
practices and organizations.
Staff associates keep current with active memberships in the Healthcare Compliance
Association, American Health Lawyers Association, the Society of Corporate
Compliance and Ethics, American College of Healthcare Executives, and the
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
Other staff associates bring years of experience to C & RD, as investigative managers, nurse reviewers, auditors, certified coders, former compliance officers, and healthcare administrators.
Our team can assist in compliance reviews, chart audit, interim Compliance Professionals, internal inquiry guidance and oversight, policy development, and assessing potential self-disclosures.
Staff associates have extensive experience in practice management, coding and chart review, compliance oversight in major hospitals and healthcare systems, internal inquiries, policy development and representation before administrative law judges.
Other Associates
Compliance & Risk Dynamics staff associates are ready to assist your organization in preventing or minimizing issues through review and suggestions for the improvement of record-keeping, business process and patient interactions.
Each of the staff associates for Compliance & Risk Dynamics have a wide range of experience and expertise. These professionals are capable and discrete in their approach to matters they are engaged in. For example the staf associates have:
· served as a government attorney, a financial compliance officer for a major hospital, and experience as a registered nurse.
· served as an executive of a suburban hospital, handling medical and regulatory affairs and provides consulting services for coding and billing, chart reviews and has had success in appearing on behalf of clients in Administrative hearing at the state and federal levels.
· served as the chief executive of a hospital and has had clinical experience, oversight in practice management.
· served as healthcare criminal investigators, having recently retired, and have substantial experience in
investigations and government procedures. These seasoned professionals have been instrumental in matters involving kickback schemes, pharmaceutical fraud, pharmaceutical marketing fraud (PDMA violations), quality of care, research fraud, provider fraud, falsification of documents and other attempts to defraud the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Our principal, Stephen A. Morreale, D.P.A., CHC, retired as Assistant Special Agent in Charge for the Office of Inspector General, Investigations, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Morreale supervised investigations throughout the U.S., which focused on quality of care, contactor fraud, health transportation fraud, provider fraud, pharmaceutical fraud, and research fraud. Prior to this, he served as the Chief of Financial Investigations and Asset Forfeiture for the New England Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Department of Justice.
Steve serves as an Assistant Editor for Compliance and Ethics and has published in numerous scholarly and trade journals including the Journal of Healthcare Compliance. He received a Certification in Healthcare Compliance from the Health Care Certification Board. Steve is an active member of the Health Care Compliance Association, American Healthcare Lawyers Association, American College of Healthcare Executives, Academy of Management, American Society of Public Administration, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics.
As an active member, Dr. Morreale has taught, facilitated, and presented on healthcare fraud, compliance issues, ethics, management, leadership and decision-making, strategic thinking, risk management, internal investigations, interviewing and drug diversion, throughout the United States. He served on staff at the Compliance Institute for HCCA in New Haven, CT and at the 2004 and 2005 HCCA Compliance Institute, serving as a faculty member for Compliance 202.
Dr. Morreale is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Roger Williams University, Walden University and Worcester State College. At Worcester State College, he teaches courses related to healthcare management and business management. His area of research interests focus on leadership and management, strategic planning, healthcare fraud, compliance and ethics.