Corporate Compliance

Verify compliance committee responsibilities

Compliance Monitor, May 10, 2006

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The following are some tips to help verify compliance committee responsibilities when auditing against the OIG's compliance program guidance for hospitals.

Determine whether the committee

  • analyzes the organization's industry environment, the legal requirements with which it must comply, and specific risk areas
  • assesses existing policies and procedures that address these areas for possible incorporation into the compliance program
  • works with appropriate hospital departments to develop standards of conduct and policies and procedures to promote compliance with the institution's program
  • recommends and monitors, in conjunction with relevant departments, the development of internal systems and controls to carry out the organization's standards and policies and procedures
  • determines the appropriate strategy/approach to promote compliance with the program and detection of any potential violations, such as through hotlines and other fraud-reporting mechanisms
  • develops a system to solicit, evaluate, and respond to complaints and problems
  • assesses existing policies and procedures that address these areas for possible incorporation into the compliance program
  • works with appropriate hospital departments to develop standards of conduct and policies and procedures to promote compliance with the institution's program
  • recommends and monitors, in conjunction with relevant departments, the development of internal systems and controls to carry out the organization's standards and policies and procedures
  • determines the appropriate strategy/approach to promote compliance with the program and detection of any potential violations, such as through hotlines and other fraud-reporting mechanisms
  • develops a system to solicit, evaluate, and respond to complaints and problems

    Editor's note: If you have a tip that you would like to share with your compliance peers, please send it to Compliance Monitor Editor Kelly Bilodeau and we'll publish it in a future issue of Compliance Monitor.



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