Tip: A four-step planning process for rapid compliance program development
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, June 10, 2008
- Develop compliance program infrastructure – Focus on building a “top-down” structure for the compliance program beginning at the board of directors level and continuing through the chief executive/president, chief compliance officer, and other executives and senior managers.
- Develop standards of conduct – The code of conduct is the written embodiment of the compliance program and the most tangible evidence of its quality.
- Establish an employee compliance hotline – This provides a reporting mechanism through which employees can report criminal conduct or any type of wrongdoing by others in the organization without fear of retribution.
- Communicate the compliance program to employees – Decide on what the organization is willing to commit itself to in terms of compliance education and training, then render that in the form of a compliance training and education policy and document.
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