Dispatches From HCCA Conference

The Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) held its annual conference this week in Las Vegas, drawing throngs of healthcare compliance professionals to hear from industry regulators, exchange ideas on how to manage compliance challenges, and of course network and schmooze while sponsors foot the bill.

Alas, Radical Compliance could not attend this year’s conference because of a conflicting event. As always, however, we scraped together a collection of posts from social media to give a sense of the conference and its happenings anyway. Without further delay…

What was the overall mood like? Funny you should ask.

 

Not sure whether this is an excellent point about whistleblowers or a depressing observation about marriage in the United States, but…

 

Some compliance-famous people talking about compliance things—

 

Obviously attending conferences in person is best, but even for those who can’t travel the HCCA provides.

 

Ryan Meade, currently partner at the healthcare law firm Meade, Roach & Annulis and a long-time healthcare compliance professional, won an award from HCCA for his distinguished service.

 

Let’s not forget the sponsors; the marketing ingenuity of compliance vendors really knows no bounds.

 

There are two types of compliance conference attendees in this world: boring nerds who wear their name badge lanyards without adornment (like me), and people like this:

This is just a small sample of the discussion online; you can see plenty more posts on LinkedIn using the #HCCAci hashtag. Congratulations to HCCA for another successful event, and don’t forget to attend (in Orlando) next year!