Healthicity Blog

As we discussed in our previous incident management posts, your compliance program doesn’t need to be perfect, but rather, it needs to be “generally effective” in preventing non-compliance.

Last year two doctors in Long Island, Dr. Vikas Desai, and Dr. Robert Maccone, entered into separate civil settlement agreements where they agreed to pay the United States a total of $1,120,299 dollars to resolve allegations

"A Code of Conduct is fundamental to a successful compliance program because it articulates the organization’s commitment to ethical behavior.”

Having an effective compliance program is absolutely crucial but measuring the success of any compliance program can be difficult. Available measures of success are not always industry-specific.