New NBA Hotline. A Good Start With A Few Questions
This is a guest article written by David Dodge, CEO of Sports Officiating Consulting, LLC. NBA Commissioner, Adam Silver, announced…
How Outsourcing the Sanctions Screening Process Can Increase Efficiency
Challenges of Conducting Effective Sanction Screening While they may be rare, instances of fraud, waste, abuse and other illegal or…
IRO Claims Reviews Revisited
Healthcare entities that enter into corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) or integrity agreements (IAs) with the U.S. Department of Health and…
IRO Claims Reviews Revisited
Healthcare entities that enter into corporate integrity agreements (CIAs) or integrity agreements (IAs) with the U.S. Department of Health and…
How to Ensure Your Hotline is Effective
The growth of hotlines over the last decade has been nothing short of phenomenal. Beginning as a Defense Industry initiative,…
Kusserow on Compliance: Human Resources Management Compliance Jurisdiction
By Richard Kusserow, former HHS Inspector General and CEO of Compliance Resource Center. Reprinted from Wolters Kluwer‘s Kusserow on Compliance…
OIG and U.S. Sentencing Commission: Effective Compliance Programs Depend on the Culture of the Organization
A Professionally Developed, Independently Administered Survey Can Provide Useful Data on Compliance Effectiveness Federal government compliance guidelines and guidance emphasize the…
Four Out of Five Organizations Under 1,000 Employees Overpay for Their Hotline
By Richard Kusserow, former HHS Inspector General and CEO of Compliance Resource Center. Reprinted from Wolters Kluwer‘s Kusserow on Compliance…
Using Culture Surveys to Measure Compliance Program Effectiveness
By Richard Kusserow, former HHS Inspector General and CEO of Compliance Resource Center. Reprinted from Wolters Kluwer‘s Kusserow on Compliance…
OCR Reports On Continuing Complaint Issues
At the 2017 HCCA Compliance Institute, OCR reported that it is expecting about 17,000 HIPAA complaints this year. To date,…
Ineffective Compliance Programs
There are eight common compliance program failures that the government would view as evidence of an “ineffective compliance program,” which…
Human Resource Management and the Compliance Office
Both the Compliance Office and Human Resources Management (HRM) play critical roles in any organization’s compliance program, and every compliance officer…