Ensure employee policies outline whistleblower rights
Compliance Monitor, May 17, 2006
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Does your facility's employee handbook include a detailed description of whistleblower protection rights? If not, your facility may soon have to draft this language to be in accordance with the Deficit Reduction Act, which President Bush signed into law on February 8.
To comply with the act, healthcare entities that receive $5 million or more in Medicaid payments each year must establish written policies for all employees (including management) that provide detailed information about the False Claims Act, whistleblower protections, and provisions regarding the entity's policies and procedures for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse.
These provisions must be included in employee handbooks with a discussion of employees' rights to be protected as whistleblowers and the entity's policies and procedures for detecting and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse.
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