Tip: Retention of records
Compliance Monitor, October 22, 2008
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- All records and documentation, including clinical and medical records and claims documentation, required either by federal or by state law for participation in healthcare programs
- All records necessary to protect the integrity of the hospital’s compliance process and to confirm the effectiveness of the program, including documentation that employees were adequately trained, reports from the hospital’s hotline (including the nature and results of any investigation conducted), modifications to the compliance program, self-disclosure, and the results of the hospital auditing and monitoring efforts.
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