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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.

1. Tenet Healthcare agrees to plead guilty in Atlanta kickback scheme, will pay $514 million - “Tenet Healthcare Corp. (NYSE: THC) said Monday that it believes it has reached an agreement

Auditing is hard work and requires a special kind of personality and superhuman attention to detail.

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.

On August 4, 2016, the Office of Civil Rights announced a resolution agreement with Advocate Health System, the largest health system in the state of Illinois, which included a $5.5 million civil monetary penalty.

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

1. New York Doctor Convicted of Multimillion-Dollar Healthcare Fraud - “A New York surgeon who practiced at hospitals in Brooklyn and Long Island, New York, was convicted

Since the launch of Compliance Manager we’ve received overwhelmingly positive feedback from many of you about how our software is a total game changer. And here at Healthicity, we take your feedback very seriously. So, when some of you requested more reporting capabilities in Compliance Manager, we...