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Comply Wise helps your business be ethical!
Customized Tangible Services
- Risk Assessments
- At least 1 informal and 1 formal assessment.
- Code of Conduct & Policies
- Creation or review of an organization’s code of conduct, policy framework & policies.
- Audit & Monitoring
- Creation or implementation of the organization’s audit and monitoring work plan and Comply Wise conducted audit & monitoring.
- Education & Training
- Creation or improvement of the organization's education & training plan. Can include infographics, 1-page summaries and live presentations.
Strategic Services
- Risk & Compliance Advising
- Collaborate to create or improve the organizations risk & compliance program.
- Reporting & Investigating
- Review hotline reporting tool for opportunity.
- Response & Prevention
- Review the organization's metrics for thorough timely resolution and issue prevention.
- Incentives & Discipline
- Review the organization's incentive and discipline plan for opportunities.
HISTORY COLLABORATING AND CREATING
What have you done for me lately?
- Worked with leadership to satisfy requirements of a Corporate Integrity Agreement (“CIA”) with the Office of Inspector General.
- Led the ethics and compliance program and ensured its effectiveness for an organization.
- Created ethics and compliance department workplan.
- Conducted enterprise risk management assessments.
- Conducted audits, training, regulatory updates, policy review and investigations.
- Created the policy framework for organization.
- Created policy library website for organization.
- Created training website for organization.
- Helped organization achieve HIPAA hybrid covered entity status.
Real Life Enforcement Actions
Do you think an effective risk and compliance program is too expensive for your organization?
Examples below show how expensive it is to not have an effective risk and compliance program.
Florida Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison And Ordered To Pay More Than $97 Million In Restitution For Participation In Multiple Health Care Fraud And Kickback Schemes
#VeteransAffairs #ClinicalLabratories #Cancer
PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was sentenced in federal court to 120 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay more than $97 million in restitution and to forfeit more than $30 million and the proceeds from the sale of a yacht for conspiring to commit health care fraud and conspiring to pay and receive unlawful kickbacks, First Assistant United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced today.
According to information presented to the Court, Hurt engaged in three separate health care fraud and illegal kickback schemes.
Key Take Aways:
- Prison and jail time as penalty for non-compliance.
- Avoid fraud schemes & conspiring with others.
- Avoid kickbacks schemes & conspiring with others.
HHS Civil Rights Office Resolves HIPAA Right of Access Investigation with $20,000 Settlement
#OCR #RightOfAccess #Deceased
Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced a settlement with Health Specialists of Central Florida Inc., a provider in Florida that provides primary care, concerning a potential violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule's right of access provision. The rule requires that patients be able to access their health information in a timely manner. This investigation marks the 42nd case to be resolved under OCR’s HIPAA Right of Access Initiative, designed to improve compliance by regulated entities with the law. Health Specialists of Central Florida Inc. paid $20,000 to OCR and agreed to implement a corrective action plan (CAP) to resolve this investigation.
Key Take Aways:
- Right of access, requires action in 30 days of request receipt (or within 60 days if an extension is applicable).
- Failure to provide timely access can result in violation, monetary penalty and government monitoring.
Industry Update:
U.S. DOJ announced Evaluation guidance covers risks of AI, continuous improvement and whistleblower
U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ" or "Department") announced updates to its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs guidance covering three primary areas:
- the risks of artificial intelligence ("AI") and emerging technologies;
- data analytics for compliance program monitoring and continuous improvement; and
- whistleblower protections.
Key Takeaways:
- Updates to Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs continue DOJ's trend of raising the bar on corporate compliance program standards.
- Companies should review their risk assessments and compliance programs with regard to the use of AI and other emerging technologies.
- Companies should also assess whether their whistleblower protections are adequate and whether compliance functions have adequate access to relevant data and related tools.
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