Healthicity Blog

Our job as compliance officers is not to expect perfection, but rather to be “generally effective” in preventing non-compliance.

Most of the time, whistleblowers are employees or someone internal to an organization. In the recent guilty verdict of Dr. Syed Ahmed, a surgeon in New York, it appears from court documents that patient complaints triggered the HHS-OIG and FBI investigations which led to the doctor’s trial.

‘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.