Compliance Surveys: Objectives, Topics, and Questions
Surveys are a cost-effective way to gather information, opinions, suggestions and insight from large numbers of employees. Employee surveys are…
GSA Sanction Screening Security Problems
The General Services Administration (GSA) maintains debarment data in the well known Excluded Parties List System (EPLS). They recently migrated this…
Measuring and Benchmarking Compliance Program Effectiveness
One of the best, but least utilized, tools for evaluating compliance program effectiveness is the use of employee surveys; not just any surveys but…
Outsourcing Sanction Screening
One of the most significant trends in business over the last decade has been the movement to outsourcing as many functions…
Critical Factors in Differentiating Hotline Services
Hotline Clients Should Be Held by Service, Not Contract Look at vendor contracts carefully. There are many tricks to “lock in”…
What is the Purpose of the GSA Debarment Database?
What is the Purpose of the GSA Debarment Database? I served as the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)…
Auditing Hotline Effectiveness
More and more legal and regulatory requirements call for having an employee hotline, including the U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines for…
A New Compliance Challenge: Appealing Medicare Claims Denials
Compliance with all the legal, regulatory, and program requirements relating to provider/supplier participation in the Medicare program is an ongoing…
Outsourcing Your Hotline
By definition, all effective compliance programs should have a hotline. It is an important avenue of communication between employees and…
Hotline Effectiveness Tips
Monitor the Hotline In order to ensure the effectiveness of the hotline function, the Compliance Officer must closely monitor it.…
How to Select a Hotline Vendor
There are a variety of services offered by compliance hotline vendors, with many whistles and bells to differentiate them. Each…
Advisory Bulletin: General Services Administration’s EPLS/SAM System Failure
As you may be aware, the General Services Administration’s (GSA) debarment list, previously known as the Excluded Parties List System…