California Clinical Laboratory Association 2015 Annual Conference
The Laboratory Balancing Act: Increased Regulation and Oversight with Decreased Reimbursement
The Westin South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, CA - November 4-6, 2015
In Conjunction with and Continued Education Units Provided By: The Los Angeles/Orange County Chapters of Clinical Laboratory Management Association “CLMA is approved
as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCP CLME Program.”
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Coverage and Reimbursement
Summit
Medi-Cal, Medicare…
Reimbursement and Coverage
Landscape for 2016, PAMA, MolDx
Re-Coding
12-2pm Conference Registration
12:30pm Reimbursement Workshop
Begins
Lâle White, CEO, Xifin
12:45pm Medicare – Noridian
Paul O'Donnell, VP JE Programming &
Dr. Gary Oaks, CMO
1:30pm Medicare – Palmetto GBA
Dr. Elaine Jeter, MolDx Medical
Director
2:15pm NIH Genetic Testing
Registry
Wendy Rubinstein, MD, PhD, FACMG,
FACP
Senior Scientist, NIH/NLM/NCBI
Director, NIH Genetic Testing Registry
3:00pm Break- Meet our Sponsors
3:15pm Challenges for New
Technologies: Physician and Payor
Education and a View from the
PAMA Advisory Panel
Carl Morrison, MD DVM
President, CSO & Founder, OmniSeq,
LLC
Executive Director for Personalized
Medicine
Director, Molecular Pathology
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
4:00pm OIG, NGS, PAMA, PGX and
Beyond
Rina Wolf, VP Strategic
Commercialization, Consulting and
Industry Affairs, XIFIN
Kyle Fetter, VP Advanced Diagnostics,
XIFIN
Amy Daniels, MT (ASCP), Senior
Manager, Investigations, College of
American Pathologists
11:30am From Volume to Value:
Strategies for a Changing Laboratory
Landscape
Stephanie Murg, Managing Director,
G2 Intelligence
12:15pm Meet & Greet Lunch
5:30-7:00pm Wine & Cheese
Reception
2:00pm Companion Diagnostics and
Drug Development
Omar Perez, PhD., Director and
Diagnostics Lead Oncology Programs
Worldwide R&D, Pfizer, Inc.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
3:00 Break- Meet our Sponsors
7:30am Registration- Continental
Breakfast- Meet our Sponsors
3:15pm Three Lab Compliance
Policies that Matter Now More than
Ever
David W. Gee, Partner, Davis Wright
Tremaine LLP
5:00pm Workshop Conclusion
8:30am Welcome
Julie Ramage, President, CCLA
8:35am Washington Update for Labs:
Key Reimbursement and Regulatory
Policies & Outlook
Dennis Weissman, President, Dennis
Weissman & Associates, LLC
9:35am Update from Sacramento
Michael J. Arnold, CCLA
Kristian E. Foy, CCLA
10:30am Break- Meet our Sponsors
10:45am CAP Accreditation and
Checklists Update
3:45pm Navigating the Regulatory
Maze, including PAMA, LDTs, LCDs,
MolDx, Medicare, MACs, and More
Thomas Tiffany, Ph.D., Founder and
CEO, Adept Clinical Consultants Team,
LLC
4:30pm Logistical Consolidation, an
Evolutionary Process in Optimization,
Vendor Management and Risk
Management
Paul Chavez, Logistics Manager, Sutter
Shared, Services Center
5:00pm Recess
6:00-7:30pm President’s Networking
Cocktail Reception
Friday, November 6, 2015
8:00am Continental Breakfast- Meet
our Sponsors
8:30am CCLA Annual Membership
Meeting- Elections Report
8:45am PAMA & FDA Oversight
Update
Alan Mertz, President, ACLA
9:15am Consumerism in Healthcare
Francisco R. Velázquez, M.D., S.M.
President and Chief Executive Officer
PAML, LLC and PAML Ventures
10:00am Break- Meet our Sponsors
10:15am Update on Clinical
Laboratory Legal Changes 2015
Patric Hooper, Founding Partner,
Hooper, Lundy & Bookman, PC
11:00am CLIA Hot Topics
Gary Yamamoto, Laboratory
Consultant, US DHHS CMS
11:30am Update from Lab Field
Services
Robert Thomas, Acting Branch Chief,
Lab Field Services, California
Department of Public Health
12:00pm Meeting Conclusion
CLMA Greater Los Angeles is pleased to sponsor the Continuing Education Units. In order to receive your units in a timely manner, at the conference please
sign up daily for the CEU units available that day. Upon course completion, please see website information to download your certificate. I will be on site to assist
you with any questions. Sandy Petering - CLMA
Wednesday- 3 Hours / Thursday- 6 Hours / Friday- 3 Hours
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