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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.

1. Healthcare Service Provider to Pay $60 Million to Settle Medicare and Medicaid False Claims Act Allegations - A major U.S. hospital service provider, TeamHealth Holdings, as successor in interest to IPC Healthcare Inc., f/k/a IPC The Hospitalists Inc. (IPC), has agreed to resolve allegations

President Trump’s words might lead us to believe we’re heading towards an “anti-regulation” future. But I think the foundations of compliance programs will remain intact.

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

When we hear of doctors, hospitals and other healthcare providers settling False Claims Act allegations with the government, we frequently learn that the accusations were first raised by a current or former employee or another healthcare provider such as a physician.

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...

“Although compliance program design is not a “one size fits all” issue, Boards are expected to put forth a meaningful effort....”.

We all know the value of getting your board on board with compliance.

A couple weeks ago, Medstar Ambulance Inc. settled False Claims Act allegations with the government for $12.7 million. The allegations were first brought to the attention of the government through a former billing office employee who filed a qui tam (i.e., whistleblower) lawsuit under the False...