Western Maryland Health System Signs Contract for YouCompli Regulatory Change System

August 13, 2018

YouCompli announced today that Western Maryland Health System (WMHS)has selected the companies regulatory change management system to help increase the efficiency and productivity of WMHS’s entire regulatory change management process.

YouCompli is the 1st if-its-kind healthcare focused, regulatory change management platform.

When a regulation changes, YouCompli tells its subscribers the specific activities they must complete to comply. Additionally, YouCompli provides detailed policies and procedures all designed to make the process of complying easier and more efficient.

After review by a nationally recognized law firm, the requirements are delivered in a software that helps them ensure the regulatory requirements are completed.

YouCompli’s approach to solving this problem is unlike anything else available in the market today”, said Scott Borsuk, Chief Compliance Officer, WMHS.  “Previously, we were using a mix of commercial products to manage regulatory changes.  Changing to YouCompli reminded me of when my family got our 1st color TV…it is that profound!”

Jerry Shafran, president and founder of YouCompli stated. “We appreciate the opportunity to drive down healthcare costs in Maryland through our relationship with WMHS.”

About WMHS

Western Maryland Health System provides healthcare services for residents in Allegany and Garrett Counties in Maryland and surrounding counties in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. State-of-the-art medical equipment and an experienced staff ensure community members have access to serious medicine close to home.

About YouCompli

YouCompli is the 1st if-its-kind healthcare focused, regulatory knowledge sharing platform. The platform allows hospitals to streamline their compliance processes, mitigate their regulatory risk, and same time and money in the process. YouCompli’s compliance experts translate new healthcare regulations into business requirement. After review by a nationally recognized law firm, the requirements are delivered to the healthcare provider in a software that helps them ensure the regulatory requirements are completed.

For more Information contact Heather Becinski   at 412-248-1200 or hbecinski@youcompli.com or visit youcompli.com

Avita Health System Chooses YouCompli Regulatory Change System

August 13, 2018

YouCompli announced today that Avita Health System has selected the company’s regulatory change management system to help increase the efficiency and productivity of Avita’s regulatory change management process.

YouCompli is a first-of-its-kind healthcare-focused, regulatory change management platform.

When a regulation changes, YouCompli tells its subscribers the specific activities they must complete to comply.  Additionally, YouCompli provides detailed policies and procedures all designed to make the process of complying easier and more efficient.

After review by a nationally recognized law firm, the requirements are delivered in a software that helps clients ensure the regulatory requirements are completed.  “Our plan is to utilize YouCompli to streamline our regulatory change processes, including notification, determining relevancy to Avita, writing requirements to comply, and communicating the work,” said Cinda Kropka, Avita’s Chief Compliance Officer.

Jerry Shafran, president and founder of YouCompli stated. “We are thrilled Avita selected YouCompli to manage their compliance challenges. We focus on providing a value proposition that streamlines operations and provides transparency into regulatory operations.”

About Avita

Avita Health System is a locally governed, patient centered, integrated health care system that is committed to providing superior medical services to North Central Ohio. Avita Health System will be the health care system and employer of choice, strategically use its resources to maximize the mission, and strive for continual quality improvements.

About YouCompli

YouCompli is the 1st if-its-kind healthcare focused, regulatory knowledge sharing platform. The platform allows hospitals to streamline their compliance processes, mitigate their regulatory risk, and same time and money in the process. YouCompli’s compliance experts translate new healthcare regulations into business requirement. After review by a nationally recognized law firm, the requirements are delivered to the healthcare provider in a software that helps them ensure the regulatory requirements are completed.

For more Information contact Heather Becinski   at 412-248-1200 or hbecinski@youcompli.com or visit youcompli.com

Georgia Hospital Health Services Identifies Regulatory Change Management as Area of Concern for Membership

Atlanta Georgia, June 4, 2018 — Compliance Roundtable Members Discuss Need For More Efficient Methods Of Managing Regulatory Changes

Recently, a compliance roundtable focus group was assembled to discuss challenges associated with managing regulatory changes. In response to the needs identified by our hospital members, Georgia Hospital Health Services (GHHS), a Georgia Hospital Association subsidiary, is pleased to announce it has entered into a strategic partnership with YouCompli. The YouCompli software platform streamlines and simplifies the process of managing regulatory changes.

The YouCompli system helps ensure GHA members won’t waste time on regulations that don’t matter to them. The regulations that are important to them are translated into business requirements (the specific activities that are required to comply).  After validation by Horty Springer (a nationally recognized law firm), the requirements are delivered in a workflow software GHA members will use to ensure the requirements are completed.

GHA Senior Vice President of Business Operations Bill Wylie said, “Our industry is one of the most highly regulated and our members are managing more regulatory complexity every day.” Wylie added, “We believe the YouCompli system will be a valuable resource they can use to simplify their regulatory burden.”

YouCompli Founder & CEO Jerry Shafran said, “GHA understands the tremendous drain on resources hospitals encounter from managing regulatory risk.” He continued, “Compliance professionals are always being asked to do more with less. YouCompli’s value proposition and business model provides a much more effective way to manage today’s challenging regulatory landscape.   

About GHA

Founded in 1929, GHA serves more than 170 hospitals in Georgia and promotes the health and welfare of the public through the development of better hospital care for all Georgia’s citizens. The mission of GHA is to advance the health of individuals and communities by serving as the leading advocate for all Georgia hospitals and healthcare systems. GHA represents its members before the General Assembly and Congress, as well as state and federal regulatory agencies, and is an allied member of the American Hospital Association. For more information, please call 770-249-4500 or visit gha.org.

GHHS, Inc. is a for-profit subsidiary of the Georgia Hospital Association.  Founded in 1989, GHHS serves member hospitals by offering various types of programs.  GHHS may either create a program to serve a membership need; exclusively market a program for GHA members; endorse services and assist in creating awareness plans.   Programs may also be placed in product lines.   All programs typically offer a discounted rate and/or additional benefits not readily available to non-member hospitals.  GHHS subjects each potential program to a rigorous due diligence process and partners only with companies and programs that are of high quality, provide a benefit to our members, and fit within GHA’s strategic plan.

About YouCompli

YouCompli is the 1st if-its-kind healthcare focused, regulatory knowledge sharing platform. The platform allows hospitals to streamline their compliance processes, mitigate their regulatory risk, and same time and money in the process. YouCompli’s compliance experts translate new healthcare regulations into business requirement. After review by a nationally recognized law firm, the requirements are delivered to the healthcare provider in a software that helps them ensure the regulatory requirements are completed.

For more Information contact Heather Becinski   at 412-248-1200 or hbecinski@youcompli.com or visit youcompli.com

YouCompli Partners with Horty Springer To Create Alternative Legal Service Delivery Model

PARTNERSHIP WILL DRAMATICALLY SIMPLIFY

HEALTHCARE COMPLIANCE AND TRANSFORM

REGULATORY KNOWLEDGE INTO A RESALABLE PRODUCT

YouCompli is pleased to announce a partnership with Horty, Springer & Mattern, P. C.

YouCompli’s healthcare-focused regulatory compliance software platform is powered by Regulatory Intelligence reviewed by Horty Springer. The result is a highly trusted healthcare-focused software system which makes regulatory compliance, easier, faster, and less expensive.

Henry Casale, Partner at Horty Springer, said, “We are always looking for new innovative ways of creating value for healthcare providers” He continued; “The business model allows regulatory knowledge to be reused to the benefit of Providers. In my opinion, this unique approach is a giant step forward in the process of changing the law firm model”.

Jerry Shafran, CEO & Founder of YouCompli stated; “Healthcare providers are struggling with managing a complex regulatory environment”. “This partnership continues to solidify YouCompli’s position as a leader in the delivery of healthcare-focused compliance solutions”.

About YouCompli
YouCompli is the 1st if-its-kind healthcare focused, regulatory knowledge sharing platform. The platform allows hospitals to streamline their compliance processes, mitigate their regulatory risk, and save time and money in the process. YouCompli’s compliance experts translate new healthcare regulations into business requirements. After review by a nationally recognized law firm, the requirements are delivered to the healthcare provider in a software that helps them ensure the regulatory requirements are completed.

About Horty Springer
Horty Springer is the first law firm to devote its practice exclusively to health care law. From its offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the firm’s 17 attorneys serve hospital and health system clients in all 50 states in association with their local counsel. The firm advises health system physician leaders, executives, boards and legal counsel on a wide variety of matters including medical staff bylaws, credentialing, privileging and peer review, corporate governance issues, regulatory compliance, payor relationships, mergers and acquisitions and all manner of policies and contracts, as well as representing health care clients in contract, antitrust, fraud and abuse and medical staff-related litigation.

Contacts:
YouCompli
Heather Becinski
Hbecinski@youcompli.com

YouCompli Hires Seasoned Healthcare Compliance Professional as New Director of Content Generation

youCompli Hires Seasoned Healthcare Compliance Professional as New Director of Content Generation

PREVIOUSLY SERVED AS CHIEF COMPLIANCE OFFICER AT

UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER AND HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL

Pittsburgh, Pa, February 28, 2018 – YouCompli today announced that Sharon Parsley has been named Director of Content Generation.  Ms. Parsley will lead the team responsible for the generation of YouCompli’s highly-valued regulatory analysis.

” Sharon brings operational excellence and decisive leadership experience to YouCompli, her regulatory knowledge will help us ensure we are meeting the compliance needs of our client’s more effectively”, said Jerry Shafran, CEO, and Founder of YouCompli.  “Sharon will help us tackle the critical challenges we face working as a fast-growing software firm”.

Ms. Parsley brings considerable executive experience in leading technology-driven organizations to the role, having served as President of a Denver-based software development firm.  Post law school, Ms. Parsley practiced as a health care regulatory and transactional attorney.  More recently, she served as Chief Compliance Officer for a faith-based Florida hospital system and a prominent academic medical center in Texas.

Ms. Parsley holds a BA in Accounting, an MBA in Finance (both from Xavier University) as well as a JD from Northern Kentucky University, additionally, she holds both the CHC (Certification in Healthcare Compliance) and CHRC (Certification in Healthcare Research Compliance) credentials.

About YouCompli

YouCompli is the 1st if-its-kind healthcare focused, regulatory knowledge sharing platform. The platform allows hospitals to streamline their compliance processes, mitigate their regulatory risk, and same time and money in the process. YouCompli’s compliance experts translate new healthcare regulations into business requirements. After review by a nationally recognized law firm, the requirements are delivered to the healthcare provider in a software that helps them ensure the regulatory requirements are completed.

YouCompli Adds NCD/LCDs To Its Content Offering

SYSTEM WILL TRANSFORM NCD/LCD INTO EASY-TO-USE BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, March 28, 2018 – YouCompli is pleased to announce the addition of National and Local Coverage Determinations to their list of regulatory content distributed through their platform. The offering will begin with NCD issuances from CMS and LCDs issued from Novitas Solutions in the JL jurisdiction, and will include both Part A and Part B.  This service will expand to cover all Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) as resources permit.

Sharon Parsley, Director of Content Development at YouCompli said, “my focus is on providing content which our clients will use to save time and money and enable them to more readily demonstrate compliance with applicable regulation”.  She continued; “as a former Chief Compliance Officer, I am acutely aware of how difficult managing policy and process changes associated with NCD and LCDs can be. This new offering will be very helpful”.

Jerry Shafran, CEO & Founder of YouCompli stated; “Our clients have made it clear, they need more help with these kinds of regulatory challenges. Our plans call for continuing to expand our content offerings”.

About YouCompli

YouCompli is the 1st of-its-kind healthcare focused, regulatory knowledge sharing platform. The platform allows healthcare providers to streamline their compliance processes, mitigate their regulatory risk, and same time and money in the process. youCompli’s compliance experts translate new healthcare regulations (now including NCDs/LCDs) into business requirements. After review by a nationally recognized law firm, the requirements are delivered to the healthcare provider in a software that helps them ensure the regulatory requirements are completed.

Contacts

YouCompli

Heather Becinski

Hbecinski@youcompli.com

YouCompli and Capstone Health Alliance Announce Landmark Partnership Agreement

REGULATORY KNOWLEDGE SHARING PLATFORM MARKS CAPSTONE’S 1ST OFFERING INTO LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE AREA’S OF HEALTHCARE

Asheville, North Carolina, January 5, 2018 — Capstone Health Alliance is pleased to announce a new agreement with YouCompli, the 1st-of-its-kind regulatory knowledge sharing software platform. YouCompli provides access to an almost unlimited supply of compliance professionals all focused on making compliance more efficient and less expensive. Their system helps ensure Capstone members don’t waste time on regulations that don’t matter to them. The ones that do, are translated into business requirements (the specific activities that are required to comply).  After validation by a nationally recognized law firm, the requirements are delivered in a workflow software Capstone members will then use to ensure the requirements are completed.

Capstone Vice President, Planning and Strategy, Jackie Dula, said, “Capstone is always searching for ways to drive more value to our members. YouCompli not only solves a complex problem all our members have (regulatory compliance), but their business model is very unique, focusing on high value at very competitive cost.” Ms. Dula added, “we are excited to broadening the types of purchased services (to include compliance software) we provide to our members. Additionally, Capstone members that sign up before March 31st 2018 will benefit from significant early adopter discounts.”

YouCompli Founder & CEO, Jerry Shafran, said, “Like all healthcare providers, Capstone members’ operating budgets are under pressure.  Compliance departments are all being asked to do more with less”, he continued, “compliance professionals leveraging our platform will be able to much more effectively manage the challenges todays’ regulatory landscape offers, while decreasing their operating costs”.

About Capstone Health Alliance

Capstone Health Alliance is a regional group purchasing alliance of healthcare members that delivers real cost savings through the power of aggregation and collaboration. Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Capstone represents over $7 billion in acute care supply chain spend. To create the best savings opportunities for our members, we pair Premier’s national portfolio with our local aggregation model – blending the best of national and regional contracting – to continually expand our extensive portfolio of more than 600 preferred pricing agreements. Capstone delivers quantifiable savings and actionable data that enable better supply chain decisions for our member facilities. In addition to cost savings initiatives, Capstone members collaborate to share best practices and pursue resource utilization initiatives, all with the intent of improving cost, quality, and outcomes in patient care.

About YouCompli

YouCompli is the 1st of-its-kind healthcare focused, regulatory knowledge sharing platform. The platform allows hospitals to streamline their compliance processes, mitigate their regulatory risk, and same time and money in the process. YouCompli’s compliance experts translate new healthcare regulations into business requirement. After review by a nationally recognized law firm, the requirements are delivered to the healthcare provider in a software that helps them ensure the regulatory requirements are completed.

For more Information contact Heather Becinski at 412-248-1200 or hbecinski@youcompli.com or visit www.youcompli.com

Ohio Valley Hospital Selects 1st Of-Its -Kind Healthcare Focused, Regulatory Knowledge Sharing Platfrom

Ohio Valley Selects youCompli 

Healthcare Focused Regulatory Knowledge 

Sharing Platform

Pittsburgh, November 27, 2017 – Ohio Valley Hospital (OVH) formerly Ohio Valley General Hospital (OVGH) – a 124-bed independent not-for-profit hospital in the western suburbs of Pittsburgh, has selected the YouCompli regulatory knowledge sharing platform for regulatory change management services.

Under terms of the agreement, OVH will utilize YouCompli’s Regulatory Intelligence and their automated workflow management software. In doing so, OVH joins a growing list of healthcare providers taking advantage of the unique value proposition offered by YouCompli. OVH will begin receiving easy-to-read regulatory compliance guidance delivered inside of YouCompli’s workflow software before year-end.

“We are always searching for more efficient ways to manage all aspects of our hospital” stated Peg Spisak RN, MPM Director, Medical Staff & Regulatory Affairs. Ms. Spisak continued, “YouCompli’s business model is very compelling, we are excited to begin to taking advantage of this new compliance tool”.

Jerry Shafran, president and founder of YouCompli stated. “We are thrilled that Peg and her team have selected YouCompli to manage their compliance challenges”, he continued “we focus on providing a value proposition that frankly blows people away, adding OVH to our growing list of clients is awesome”.

About Ohio Valley Hospital

Ohio Valley Hospital, located in Kennedy Township, is a 124-bed, not-for-profit community hospital with a medical staff of 250 physicians in 26 medical specialties. OVH has been providing specialized diagnostic services, advanced technologies, comprehensive treatments and truly personalized care to the residents of Pittsburgh’s western suburbs for more than 100 years. For more information, please visit www.ohiovalleyhospital.org.

About YouCompli

YouCompli is the 1st if-its-kind healthcare focused, regulatory knowledge sharing platform. YouCompli’s compliance experts translate new healthcare regulations into business requirement. After review by a nationally recognized law firm, the requirements are delivered to the healthcare provider in a software that helps them ensure the regulatory requirements are completed.

For  more Information contact Heather Becinski   at 412-248-1200 or hbecinski@youcompli.com or visit youcompli.com.

YouCompli and Buchanan Ingersoll – Not Just Another OIG Work Plan Webinar

Join YouCompli and Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney for a special webinar on:

 Not Just Another OIG Work Plan Webinar

The OIG work plan was just released. Providers should be evaluating its impact on their plans for next year. Knowledge of the work plan allows your organization to prepare and ensure that you are meeting the main areas of compliance. This reduces your risk from poor outcomes when an oversight authority audits your organization.

This Session will focus on the following:

  • Practical down to earth insight into the purpose structure and development of the work-plan;
  • Reading between the lines in the projects; and
  • Practical points on how to read and respond to a work plan (who, what and why).

Substantive topics to be discussed specific to this year’s work-plan:

  • Disproportionate share payment;
  • Provider based vs. free standing status; and
  • CMS validation of hospital submitted quality reporting data.

Speakers:


Bob Ramsey, Esq.: Mr. Ramsey, III is a shareholder in Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney’s Healthcare Section and represents healthcare providers in a variety of regulatory, transactional and reimbursement matters. In the transactional area, Bob has represented clients in an array of innovative projects, including the formation of accountable care organizations (ACOs) and the structuring of bundled payment arrangements that qualify for payment under various CMS demonstration projects. He also has represented clients in the formation and operation of numerous joint ventures. In addition, Bob counsels clients regarding regulatory and compliance matters, including issues related to the Stark law, the Anti-Kickback Statue and the False Claims Act. His clients include healthcare systems, hospitals, post-acute providers, dialysis facilities and specialty pharmacies.


John Steiner, Esq.: Mr. Steiner has over 30 years of practical healthcare-focused compliance and legal experience. As a Senior Counsel for the American Hospital Association, he served as an advocate for the national trade organization. Mr. Steiner has held senior compliance roles with The Cleveland Clinic, UK Healthcare in the University of Kentucky and Cancer Treatment Centers of America. He is a national speaker on health law and compliance topics. He also is a nationally recognized author and editor of a variety of health care and compliance publications.If looking for OIG Work plan information provided in an interesting and timely fashion, don’t miss this FREE event.Date: Monday, December 12, 2016Time: 12:00-1:00 P.M. ESTRegistration:URL: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/987170505688234754Webinar ID: 697-704-027