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We're switching things up in our latest episode of Compliance Conversations! This time CJ Wolf is in the hot seat, with Nick Merkin conducting the interview. Nick is a healthcare attorney and the CEO of Compliagent, a nationwide consulting firm specializing in compliance infrastructure.

If you’ve been around the compliance block a time or two, you’ve heard various messages from enforcement agencies about their intentions to hold individuals accountable for their actions related to alleged corporate crime. It makes sense when you stop to think about it. Organizations don’t make...

Staying on top of the latest enforcement actions is not easy – that's why we’re rounding up recent U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) enforcement actions for you.

What do the housing, automotive, technology, and healthcare industries all have in common? Compliance programs and professionals!   

Reporting of Monetary Donations in Research

Over the last several years, the medical research community has seen many high-profile announcements about researchers resigning or being fired over not properly disclosing financial interests, especially those related to foreign influence (see ...

Would you like to save nearly $4 billion dollars? Well, according to the most recent semiannual report to Congress, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) believes that is how much they could save taxpayers.  For those who don’t know, twice per year the...

Happy New Year! It’s a fresh start. You can’t change the past, but you have a great deal of control of what you are going to do in this upcoming year. So, forget the past and make some resolutions. Specifically, make some compliance resolutions!  Will Durant is credited with interpreting Aristotle...

As a compliance officer, do you ever feel like you are making a list, checking it twice, tryin’ to find who’s naughty or nice?

So many compliance activities require checking, double-checking and sometimes triple-checking.  At this festive time of year, let’s reflect on the naughty and nice lists.