The Washington Executive Course Overview: The Washington Executive Course is offered to senior compliance professionals of organizations, business units (hospital, health plan, region) or business lines (behavioral health, home care, hospice, commercial health plan,...
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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...
Common Themes Emerge at National Symposium on Quality and Compliance
In collaboration with UPMC Insurance Services Division, the Health Ethics Trust held its second annual National Symposium on Quality and Compliance (NSQC) on June 8-9 in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the two-day event, 11 presentations from an accomplished and diverse faculty...
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 during the...
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...