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When Trent Stechschulte joined Equitas Health as their Compliance Officer, he discovered a compliance program that wasn’t living up to its potential. Like many compliance programs there were a slew of manual processes, incidents going unreported and trainings that were conducted few and far between.

The DOJ recently published this document, which provides additional insight into their practices of evaluating compliance programs.

Back in the 1980’s, Larry Plutko started his career in Healthcare and by the 90’s found himself fascinated by compliance. In 2008, he accepted a position of compliance officer in Austin, Texas, where he became an important career mentor to me.

Most of us by now have heard of the Yates’ Memo that directs the Department of Justice attorneys to hold individuals accountable for inappropriate actions associated with corporate wrongdoing. Since the memo, there’s been an increase of corporate accountability in the headlines, which demonstrates...

For the last month or so I’ve been posting about various CIA compliance program requirements from the OIG in one of their most recently published CIA.

The OIG has stated, “every Board is responsible for ensuring that its organization complies with relevant Federal, State, and local laws.”

Every compliance officer knows that effective compliance requires the participation of “an entire village.” While some organizations might think that hiring a compliance officer is all an organization needs to maintain compliance, that assumption could not be further from the truth.

This week, let’s dive deeper into the requirements of a recent corporate integrity agreement and what your organization can learn from it.