Risk assessments are not new in healthcare, and in specific regulatory areas are required. But, that doesn’t mean things aren’t changing. More and more organizations are embracing enterprise risk assessments (ERM) as a way...more
Oh, Artificial Intelligence. So much promise, and so much risk. What’s a compliance and ethics professional to do? Start by listening to this podcast about the chapter “Managing the Ethics and Compliance Risks of Artificial...more
Who are you talking to? When you think about all the employees in your organization, who do you see in your mind? You probably, and should, think of several people: the person in the plant, the R&D people, the sales team....more
The Health Care Compliance Association just published the 4th edition of the Research Compliance Professional’s Handbook, and to see what’s new in it we sat down with the editor, Kelly Willenberg of Kelly Willenberg &...more
Governments don’t only want to prosecute companies for paying bribes. Increasingly, they are looking for companies to join with them to reduce the global challenge of corruption.
To learn more we spoke with Shruti Shah,...more
Governments don’t only want to prosecute companies for paying bribes. Increasingly, they are looking for companies to join with them to reduce the global challenge of corruption.
To learn more we spoke with Shruti Shah,...more
Yes or no: Do you do investigations? Do you prepare questions in advance? Are those questions yes or no in nature? Did you know that may not be the best way to do it?
In this podcast, Michael Johnson (LinkedIn), Chief...more
In 2023 the US Securities and Exchange Commission adopted rules “requiring registrants to disclose material cybersecurity incidents they experience and to disclose on an annual basis material information regarding their...more
It’s not for nothing that there’s a year in the title of this blog post and podcast. Social media risks change frequently, explains Kortney Nordrum, VP, Regulatory Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at Deluxe. She is the...more
Jessica Zeff loves government audits. It’s hard to believe, given the dread they inspire. But, the founder and lead consultant of Simply Compliance makes a very good case in this podcast that audits can be much better than...more
In late 2023, The Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the Department of Health and Human Services issued its new General Compliance Program Guidance. In this podcast, David Schumacher, Partner and Co-Chair of the Fraud &...more
Imagine you are at a large company with thousands of suppliers. As a part of the compliance team you need to understand the risk of working with each and every one of them. To do that you may need to understand the ownership...more
Behavioral health shares many of the same compliance challenges as the rest of healthcare, but it also has several of its own.
To understand the risks, we sat down with Community Counseling Solutions’ Executive Director...more
Julie Janeway, General Counsel and principal owner, Principled Healthcare Consulting will be speaking about internal and parallel investigations at the 2024 HCCA Compliance Institute. In this podcast she slices off a bit of...more
To quote CMS, “The Open Payments program is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. Open Payments houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting...more
Steve Forman, Senior Vice President at Strategic Management Services, had an eye-opening experience years ago when interviewing for the job of Vice President of Audit and Compliance for New York Presbyterian Hospital. The...more
Currently there is a patchwork of anticorruption laws across the EU. What has been lacking, though, is a EU-wide approach. That is likely to change soon, reports Vera Cherepanova, founding partner of Studio Etica.
Change is...more
Much of the day to day of compliance isn’t about understanding laws. It’s about influencing human behavior and steering people in the right direction.
In this podcast, Scott Young, Principal Advisor and Head of Private...more
So, you’ve got a global compliance program. But, what do you do when a local team says, “That doesn’t really work here” or “We think it would be better if it were changed to something else for us”?
Kristy Grant-Hart, CEO of...more
For a time monitorships were, if not endangered, out of favor. After many years of embracing them, the US Department of Justice had begun calling for cost benefit analyses and looking for alternatives.
Then in 2021 Deputy...more
At the 2022 HCCA Compliance Institute, Tonja Wise, Corporate Director of Compliance, Sharp HealthCare will be leading a session “Your Audit Plan is on Point…but How is Your Moderating Game?” It’s a very good question, and in...more
There are a lot of good reasons to do a periodic review of your healthcare compliance program, not the least of which is that the government expects it.
But when’s the right time? How do you get the management support? ...more
Perhaps the most intriguing title for a session at the 2021 SCCE Compliance & Ethics Institute was “Re-Thinking Employee ‘Engagement’: What’s on Your Compliance Program’s Dating Profile.” Not often you see references to...more
The calls keep coming in to the helpline, which is great, unless you miss that all important, high risk one amidst all the minor issues. How do you avoid that problem? In this podcast, Mia Reini, Senior Manager-Corporate...more