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If you’ve been around the compliance block a time or two, you’ve heard various messages from enforcement agencies about their intentions to hold individuals accountable for their actions related to alleged corporate crime. It makes sense when you stop to think about it. Organizations don’t make...

What do the housing, automotive, technology, and healthcare industries all have in common? Compliance programs and professionals! 

It’s a question that must come at some point in every compliance professional’s career, and today it came for Carl.

It seems simple enough – you send out company-wide annual compliance training and before it even has a chance to hit every inbox, your phone rings. Your chat notification dings.

Would you like to save nearly $4 billion dollars? Well, according to the most recent semiannual report to Congress, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) believes that is how much they could save taxpayers. For those who don’t know, twice per year the...

Happy New Year! It’s a fresh start. You can’t change the past, but you have a great deal of control of what you are going to do in this upcoming year. So, forget the past and make some resolutions. Specifically, make some compliance resolutions! Will Durant is credited with interpreting Aristotle...

As public health efforts try to slow the U.S. opioid epidemic and federal law agencies fight on the enforcement front, it’s important that your healthcare organization’s compliance program addresses risks associated with this devastating issue.

It’s easy to get carried away with holiday spirit, so Carl thought a small reminder might help compliance stay top-of-mind. Just a tiny, festive hint that compliance is here to help his team members and the organization steer clear of actions that could result in much more than a lump of coal.

Today’s episode of Compliance Conversations features a conversation between CJ Wolf, MD, and his longtime colleague and medical compliance expert, Jay McVean. Jay has over two decades of experience in medical billing and coding, and he currently serves as the Director of Medical School Billing...