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As we discussed in our previous incident management posts, your compliance program doesn’t need to be perfect, but rather, it needs to be “generally effective” in preventing non-compliance.

Tenet Health announced on Aug. 1, 2016 that it believes it has come to an agreement with the U.S. government for a $514 million settlement associated with a lawsuit alleging it paid for maternity patient referrals.

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.