What's up ahead on the compliance horizon?
Health Care Auditing Strategies, February 1, 2005
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Experts focus on hot topics for auditors in 2005 and the years to come
Clinical research, unnecessary medical procedures, and information technology: If you're trying to come up with an auditing plan this year, these might be good places to start.
That's according to experts who discussed what they see as being auditing hot topics in 2005 and beyond.
We solicited opinions from the following experts: James Kopf, president of Healthcare Oversight, Inc., based in New Canaan, CT, and former director of program investigations for the OIG, John A. Beattie, CPA, CFE, a principal of Parente Randolph, LLC, working in their Harrisburg, PA office, and Kenneth Spence, CFE, a healthcare consultant and former director of compliance and internal audit at an academic medical center based in New Hampshire.
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