06 May Compliance Conference Session 4
COMPLIANCE IN 2025 – HOT TOPICS AND STUMP THE CHUMPS
The Barclay Damon team will cover the top ten mistakes most identified by compliance officers, hot topics in compliance reviews and best practices, surviving as a Compliance Officer in 2025 and will take questions from the audience to tailor the presentation.
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Presenters
Melissa Zambri, Partner, Barclay Damon
Melissa is the co-team leader of the Health Care and Health & Human Services Providers Teams.
In her practice, Melissa focuses on enterprise development and regulatory guidance for the health care industry. She provides counsel to individual practitioners, owners, administrators, executives, and employees of health care practices and health care-related facilities, including physicians, licensed medical personnel, providers of services to the developmentally disabled, hospitals, clinics, home-health agencies, senior residences and assisted-living facilities, laboratories, health care trade associations, durable medical-equipment providers, alcohol- and substance-use-disorder treatment facilities, physician practice management companies, mental-health programs, and medical transportation companies.
Melissa assists health care clients with certificate-of-need applications, compliance programs, audits, investigations and self-disclosures, HIPAA compliance, and licensure issues. She also helps clients obtain approvals to operate health care facilities and to complete significant transactions. She counsels providers on federal anti-kickback and self-referral requirements, regulations governing federal- and state-funded health care programs, including Medicare and Medicaid, and other regulatory requirements applicable to health care providers.
In addition to her practice, Melissa is an adjunct professor for Albany Law School’s Online Graduate Programs, where she teaches Health Care Compliance and HIPAA Compliance. She is also an adjunct professor at Clarkson University, where she teaches Legal Aspects of Health Care.
Melissa is a member of Barclay Damon’s Management Committee and managing director of the Albany office.
Bob Hussar, Of Counsel, Barclay Damon
The former first deputy for the NYS Office of the Medicaid Inspector General, Bob has over 25 years of experience providing public and private clients with strategic advice and guidance on Medicare, Medicaid, and other payor regulatory, compliance, licensure, and reimbursement issues.
Bob is widely recognized for his extensive experience counseling providers, payors, boards of directors, and other health care industry stakeholders with regard to the development, assessment, and implementation of compliance programs; the performance of compliance due diligence and effectiveness reviews; the provision of interim compliance services; internal investigations; and the full range of regulatory matters, including self-disclosures, audit defense, settlement negotiations, and Justice Center matters. Bob is certified in health care compliance through, and is a past board member of, the Health Care Compliance Association.
In addition to his practice, Bob is the founder and managing partner of Healthcare Compliance Connections, a boutique executive search firm that assists providers in identifying and recruiting qualified health care compliance professionals.
Margaret Surowka, Partner, Barclay Damon
Margaret serves as co-team leader of Barclay Damon’s Health Care and Health & Human Services Providers Teams. A former general counsel at the New York State Dental Association with over 30 years of legal experience, Margaret has unique experience in health care and labor and employment. Her health care practice includes representing agencies, facilities, and individual providers in compliance matters, licensure, disciplinary, and ethics proceedings. She routinely counsels clients facing Medicaid, Medicare, and other governmental investigations and audits as well as assists with employment and contract matters. She assists clients with compliance programs and has successfully
represented health care entities with significant disclosures to the federal and state government.
Margaret also defends clients facing license revocation and represents them in disciplinary matters before the Office of Professional Medical Conduct and the Office of Professional Discipline. She also has defended daycare centers in proceedings brought by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services.
Margaret has decades of experience practicing labor and employment law. She counsels and represents employers on employment compliance issues and defends employers before the NYS Division of Human Rights. Margaret has conducted several internal investigations relating to sexual harassment allegations, discrimination complaints, and diversity and equity
initiatives. She trains governing boards with respect to not-for-profit law and governance issues.