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Take a role in corporate compliance

Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, October 27, 2006

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It can be said that your organization's compliance program-adherence to rules, regulations, and policies set by the government, insurance programs, and payers-can't work without you. With just a pinch of initiative, you can help ensure your organization's culture of compliance. Here are some simple things you can do to help:

• Learn and be able to articulate how you are critical to the organization's compliance efforts. Consider how errors on your part could place the organization in jeopardy.
• Be willing and interested to take those extra steps for your compliance duties. Ask hard questions and when in doubt, double-check policies or ask your supervisor.
• Discuss and act in accordance with the concepts expressed in your organization's Code of Conduct. Don't just give it lip service.
• Become comfortable raising issues to your supervisor informally or using reporting mechanisms. Know that it is better to ask questions and raise issues than to leave them unresolved.

Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the online course, "Understanding Your Role in Corporate Compliance for General Health Care Staff." For more information on this and other courses in our library, go to http://www.hcprofessor.com/.

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