Monitor restraint abuses to avoid false claims accusations
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, June 21, 2005
Monitor restraint abuses to avoid false claims accusations
Patients have the right to be free from medically unnecessary restraints, or those administered by staff as a means for coercion, discipline, convenience, or retaliation. Otherwise, your facility may run into trouble under the False Claims Act. That's according to Associate U.S. Attorney James G. Sheehan, who works in the Philadelphia U.S. Attorney's Office. Sheehan warned auditors and compliance officers during the Health Care Compliance Association's 2005 Compliance Institute in New Orleans in April to watch for restraint and other patients' rights abuses. In addition to jeopardizing your facility's accreditation, poor quality of care can also lead to noncompliance because the government considers claims for substandard care to be fraud.
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