Four steps to develop an audit plan
Healthcare Auditing Weekly, August 9, 2005
Planning and audit is much like setting up a formal research study. Take these steps to develop an audit plan for your organization:
1. Establish an objective. The objective of an audit may be posed as a hypothesis or a research question. The internal audit would then aim to find out whether the hypothesis could be proven or to answer the question.
2. Identify and select data sources. Establish a precise means to collect and analyze data.
3. Develop a sampling plan. The sample should indicate how many pieces of data, from whom, and around which parameters the data are to be collected, and should be statistically valid and reliable.
4. Design a data collection instrument. Running a drill in a simulated environment to verify employee training is an example of a data collection tool.
Look for next week's issue when we go over other audit tools, such as focus groups and questionnaires.
Related Products
-
Strategies for Health Care Compliance
News and real-life examples to increase the effectiveness of your compliance program. Strategies for Health Care Compliance...
-
Compliance Monitor
This HTML e-mail newsletter delivers news on Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, as well as recent documents and targets...
-
Medicare Weekly Update
Each issue of Medicare Weekly Update includes the latest CMS proposed and final rules, CMS manual revisions, and...
-
Medicare Update for Physician Services
Medicare Update for Physician Services is a free, monthly e-zine that delivers news and information to help physician...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- Identify potential Medicaid RAC target areas
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- Capturing all necessary codes for IUD insertion and removal can be challenging
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- QA:Coding multiple initial infusions
- E-mailed
-
- Q/A: Volume requirement for reporting hydration services
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- CMS has reformulated payments for some bilateral procedures
- Q&A: Follow CMS' coding guidelines when using modifier -25
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Catch up on what's new with injections and infusions
- New conflicts of interest create new challenges
- Q/A. One injection code or two?
- Cohesive History and Physical Requirements
- Searched