Quality of care plays an important role in compliance
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, May 11, 2004
Quality care is the cornerstone of an effective compliance program. To ensure quality care for patients, ask the following the questions:
- Is your organization's staff aware of the Department of Justice's new focus on standards of care that, if not met, could lead to a false claim?
- Are clinicians properly documenting medical necessity and compliance? Have you trained them to do so?
- Are you meeting Joint Commission standards?
This excerpt was adapted from the manual, "Hospital Auditing and Monitoring: Sample programs for key risk areas." This is a step-by-step, practical manual that offers sample audit programs for the most troublesome areas a hospital must audit. The binder and CD/ROM are filled with actual audit programs used by auditors and compliance officers in the field. Click here here for more information or to order.
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