Healthicity Blog

Hello, folks!

I’ve got a new Compliance Conversations podcast episode for you, hosted by yours truly, to use in your continuous education efforts–or to rock out to during your commute.

1. Overlooking risks leads to breach, $400,000 settlement - If you’re a compliance officer like me, you already know that overlooking risks will probably lead to a breach.

1. Administrator of Miami - Area Home Health Agency Sentenced to 126 Months in Prison for Involvement in $2.5 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme -

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.