Has Your Organization Created a Compliance Work Plan for 2025?

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As we near the end of 2024, organizations should be preparing and planning for 2025. Part of this preparation is developing a 2025 Compliance Work Plan to establish your organization’s focus areas. Your organization’s work plan should include compliance, privacy, security and may even include legal. Some of the elements may include operations, developing policies and procedures, training, and auditing and monitoring. The items included should be areas that need to be improved or developed…

What is the New Nursing Facility ICPG?

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Just last month the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) put out an Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance for Skilled Nursing Facilities and Nursing Facilities (Nursing Facility ICPG). Since 1998, the OIG has been issuing voluntary Compliance Program Guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry. At the center of this CPG modernization effort is the OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG), a reference guide for the health care compliance community…

Not Conducting Exclusion Checks – Is it Worth the Risk?

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Is your organization conducting regular exclusion checks for your vendors and employees? With the repercussions of contracting or employing an excluded individual or vendor, exclusion checks should be an important part of any organization’s compliance program. Organizations can receive a penalty of up to $20,000 for each billable service conducted after February 9, 2018, and up to $10,000 for any billed services before that date. Those fines can be costly for any organization employing or…