Healthcare Compliance and Regulatory Consulting
Who we are
We approach compliance from a practical and business-savvy perspective.
We work with you to understand your healthcare company’s unique compliance and regulatory challenges and create, implement and optimize a program that meets them. Our compliance and regulatory consulting team is led by Ann Ford and Cora Colvin, who have over 30 years of combined real-life, hands-on experience in healthcare compliance and regulatory program development and management.
What we do
Comprehensive healthcare compliance program design, implementation and optimization
We create right-sized, risk-intelligent compliance programs for companies that incorporate all elements of an effective compliance program in a way that is tailored to your company’s unique risks, needs and business model
We apply our decades of hands-on compliance and regulatory experience across the healthcare provider, supplier and Med Tech industries to help companies operationalize the laws and regulations that apply to them
Comprehensive risk assessments and program effectiveness reviews for general or specific compliance programs
We help companies identify and assess their high-risk business units to inform and enable top priorities for their compliance programs
We perform periodic external compliance program reviews for effectiveness
HIPAA Privacy and Security program development, implementation, and assessment
Conflict of interest program development, implementation, and assessment
Billing, coding and reimbursement compliance program development, implementation and assessment for all types of providers (clinical or DME/HME)
Regulatory inspection readiness including development of processes and programs to manage regulatory inspections
Industry-specific accreditation/reaccreditation and licensure program support, including development of new policies, processes and training, or assessing existing programs
Contact
Ann is an attorney who joined HPS Advise after spending 16 years as a legal and compliance executive for large health systems as well as a global medical supply and device manufacturer and distributor. Before that, she was in private practice as a healthcare and litigation attorney working with large health systems.
Cora is a regulatory and compliance professional with over 12 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She spent several years in regulatory, including license and accreditation at a large pharmaceutical retailer. More recently, she served as the Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer and Chief Privacy Officer for a large medical supply and device company.