On June 27, 2014, Draffin & Tucker partner Cindy DuPree and manager Sarah Dekutowski presented a 60-minute session for a HELP webinar for the Rural Health Performance Improvement project. The presentation shared information learned at the January 2014 340B University and February 2014 340B Coalition meetings. The presentation also included discussion of the external audits [...]
Draffin & Tucker partners Steve Bedsole and Cindy DuPree traveled to Louisiana to present at the Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health’s Workshop for Boards of Trustees of Critical Access Hospitals. The three-hour presentation, entitled “Critical Access Hospital University – What Every CAH Trustee Should Understand,” included discussion of the answers to the following [...]
Partner Cindy DuPree authored an article entitled, “340B Program Group Purchasing Prohibition – Changes in Patient Status,” for VHA Georgia, Inc.’s Spring 2014 newsletter. Under the 340B program, disproportionate share hospitals (DSH), children’s hospitals, and free-standing cancer hospitals that are registered on the Office of Pharmacy Affairs (OPA) database as participating in the program, are [...]
On April 16, 2014, Draffin & Tucker partner Cindy DuPree presented a 60-minute webinar to Georgia HFMA focusing on the 340B Drug Pricing Program. The presentation shared lessons learned at the January 2014 340B University and February 2014 340B Coalition meetings. The presentation also included discussion of the following topics: External audits of 340B program [...]
Eddie Phillips, tax principal, and Cindy DuPree, partner, discussed “Financial Assistance Policy Changes” at the March 18, 2014, and April 8, 2014, HFMA Revenue Cycle Summits in Peachtree City and Tifton, Ga., respectively. The presentation overviewed the current and proposed regulatory guidance of IRC Section 501(r), including: Section 501(r)(4)A – Financial Assistance Policy, Section 501(r)(4)B [...]
On April 8, 2014, Draffin & Tucker partner Cindy DuPree spoke to participants of the Georgia HFMA Revenue Cycle and Accounting and Auditing Summit in Tifton, Ga., on “Helping Your Finance Committee with an Internal Risk Assessment.” She advised seminar participants that managing risk is everyone’s job, but to “keep it simple” by using a [...]
Cindy DuPree, partner at Draffin & Tucker, LLP, was quoted in the article, "Tax-Exempt Hospitals Expected to Focus on Community," that appeared in the April 2012 issue of Healthcare Finance News. In the article, Cindy says that in order for charitable hospitals and health systems to help improve their communities' healthcare needs while also retaining [...]
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