Cathy Karpowicz, LMSW

• Ensures compliance with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards
• Develops and maintains policies and procedures to support compliance and privacy efforts
• Conducts regular compliance and privacy assessments, and audits to identify and address potential risks.
• Collaborates with various departments to implement and integrate compliance and privacy measures into daily operations.
• Conducts regular risk assessments to identify potential areas of compliance, privacy vulnerability, and risk.
• Develops strategies to mitigate identified risks and ensure that proactive compliance measures are in place.
• Provides employee training to raise awareness of compliance issues, and promote a culture of ethics and integrity.
• Conducts internal audits to identify and rectify non-compliance issues, and recommend improvements.
• Prepares regular reports for the Executive Team and the Board of Directors, detailing the status of compliance within the organization
• Conducts investigations in response to alleged violations of rules, regulations, policies, or procedures.
• Collaborates with legal counsel and other departments during the investigation, if needed.
• Fosters a culture of compliance and ethics awareness across the organization.
• Works closely with various departments, including finance, human resources, and operations, to ensure a comprehensive approach to compliance. and privacy
• Fosters open communication channels to address compliance concerns, and provide guidance.
• Stays abreast of changes in laws and regulations in the industry.

• Monitored federal and state laws for necessary updates to organization policies and procedures
• Monitored, and, as necessary, coordinated compliance activities of other departments to remain abreast of the status of all compliance activities and to identify trends
• Provided strategic level input to Corporate Compliance Officer for use in decision making
• Managed all credentialing of providers and sites
• Liaison to agency attorney, insurance company, MCOs and regulatory bodies
• Developed, initiated, maintained and revised policies and procedures for the general operation of the compliance program and its related activities to prevent illegal, unethical, or improper conduct
• Collaborated with Human Resources and Training Department to support the development of effective health care compliance, education and training
• Updated and reviewed Notice of Privacy Practices, Release of Information forms, HIPAA Breach and Notification & Reporting, FWA Investigation & Reporting, Subpoena/Testimony Requests
• Developed and oversaw medical requests and and releases including tracking and managing subpoena requests
• Tracked, investigated, and closed privacy, fraud, waste or abuse incidents
• Provided relevant and regular internal and external compliance and integrity reporting
• Led Clinical Utilization Review Team
• Led Incident Management Team

Program Coordinator

• Supervised staff and program services
• Identified Westchester County foster care cases due for Service Plan Reviews, reviewed and submitted compliance documents, data collection and statistical entry
• Identified on-going staff training needs, coordination of guest speakers and other training opportunities
• Attended quarterly meetings with Department of Social Service administration to discuss trends
• Managed fiscal responsibilities of the program, including monthly, quarterly and annual narrative and budget reporting

Independent Third Party Reviewer

• Audited Westchester County Department of Social Service files for children in the county's foster care system
• Monitored casework contacts, progress note documentation and paperwork compliance for the White Plains, New York, Peekskill, New York and Child Welfare Training Division offices
• Facilitated and mediated Service Plan Reviews for children and adolescents in foster care by bringing together children, foster parents, biological parents and treatment providers in a safe and productive meeting space
• Reviewed permanency goals and assess progress towards those goals for each child in foster care
• Compiled written reports documenting issues of compliance, treatment plans and permanency goals

• Conducted weekly home visits to therapeutic foster parents and seriously emotionally disturbed therapeutic foster children
• Testified at court hearings concerning extensions of foster care placements and terminations of parental rights
• Maintained accurate and detailed records on each child/adolescent
• Provided the Department of Social Services with quarterly risk assessments for each child, which detailed his or her treatment plan and goals
• Provided support, guidance and counseling to therapeutic foster families, therapeutic foster children and biological families
• Coordinated services for children and families by linking them with appropriate community agencies and programs

• Supervised staff of 11 Family Advocates, Intake Officer and Parent Involvement Coordinator
• Provided crisis intervention to pre-school children and their families through home visits and referrals
• Prepared and implemented annual recruitment plan
• Continuously collaborated with community agencies to provide the most appropriate services for families
• Prepared monthly reports summarizing community needs and demographics
• Prepared and conducted intakes for new families
• Co-facilitated the 'Active Parenting Now' curriculum that focused on effective parenting techniques

• Was 'right-hand' of center director; supervised approximately 15 tutors
• Tested children and analyzed their academic strengths and weaknesses
• Conducted intakes for new students and parents after developing a tutoring plan for students
• Provided tutoring in SAT preparation and all levels of K-12 education
• Managed fiscal reports and tuition for the center