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‘I just wish there were more time in the day.’ 

This is a statement many of us have probably said a hundred times.

Are you missing out on an important opportunity to vastly improve your organization’s compliance program and prevent potential fines, legal actions, and bad press?

A review of court records shows that the government alleges that Prime Healthcare implemented practices and procedures that would lead

Being a compliance officer requires us to constantly open our eyes to new information.

In January of 2012, Collen Herren, former clinical nursing director for specialty clinics at Marshall Medical Center (Placerville, CA), filed a lawsuit (Case 2:12 -cv-00098-JAM-KJN) under the False Claims Act

For the first time in 25 years, on July 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published the first major set of proposed changes to the requirements for participation for long-term care facilities.

Healthcare compliance is one of our favorite things to write, talk, or read about. We live for it. And we spend a lot of time searching the web for fantastic content and killer compliance resources.

Medical necessity matters. The concept of medical necessity (or lack thereof) is what drives much of the multi-million dollar whistleblower suits and healthcare provider settlements we see in the healthcare industry today. Corporate integrity agreements often spell out requirements placed on...