Healthicity Blog

March 2026 was a busy month of announcement for the OIG’s Work Plan. Compliance officers and auditors should review the recent announcements and adjust their compliance work plans and annual audit plans as necessary.

A recent case out of Washington is a reminder that compliance risk does not stop at billing. It can also show up in how medical devices are handled.

Medicare audit reports are often treated as retrospective summaries, documents that explain what went wrong after the fact. But for organizations focused on strengthening their audit programs, they offer something far more valuable: a forward-looking view of risk.

Hiring the right compliance officer requires more than a list of standard interview questions. The strongest candidates can explain how they approach risk, investigations, education, HIPAA, audits, and cross-functional collaboration in real-world situations. Use this checklist to guide interviews,...

In this episode of Compliance Conversations, CJ Wolf sits down with Lisa Taylor, Chief Compliance Officer at Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, to unpack a new federal initiative that compliance leaders should not ignore: CRUSH, or Comprehensive Regulations to Uncover Suspicious...

Preventing Medicare fraud and abuse requires risk-based planning, auditing, documentation, reporting, investigation, and corrective action tracking. Organizations must maintain consistent oversight, monitor trends, and document compliance activities to demonstrate accountability and reduce...

Healthcare audits are becoming more data-driven, more visible, and more critical to organizational performance. But many audit teams are still relying on spreadsheets, manual processes, and disconnected systems that weren’t built for today’s demands.

Coding updates aren’t confined to annual releases, and the April 2026 changes are a reminder of how quickly risk can evolve.