Who Has the Best Compliance Practices?

The Annual Best Compliance Practices Forum is upon us (October 15-16; DC Metro) and it will be an exciting Forum. Ten to twelve Best Practices will be selected from all submissions nationally with five Best Practices already approved. Best Practices are selected by a...

Best Practices Deadline Extended

While submissions are coming in, many potential submitters have asked for more time to assemble their submissions. With this in mind, we are extending the submission deadline for the Annual Healthcare Best Compliance Practices Forum until August 15 provided that the...

OIG Releases Work Plan Mid-Year Update

The HHS Office of Inspector General today released its Work Plan Mid-Year Update for Fiscal Year 2015 which according to the OIG website, “summarizes new and ongoing reviews and activities that OIG plans to pursue with respect to HHS programs and operations...

Compliance Officer Hurdles

You may enjoy this article from the Report on Medicare Compliance in which Mark Pastin discusses hurdles that compliance officers often face. Click this link to view the article: Report on Medicare Compliance  

Be careful, an ethical mistake can be fatal to your career

HET President Mark Pastin discusses the potential impact of making an ethical mistakes in the workplace as part of the Leadership Lab series in The Globe and Mail newspaper. It is often far harder to recover from an ethics mistake than an ordinary mistake. While an...

4 Myths about Compliance Program Assessment

This time of year executives think about year-end measures of performance.  So what do you provide them to measure the performance of the compliance program? Even if you assess a program annually, you come up far short of a measure, where a measure is something you...