Boerner Consulting Articles in Compliance Today, a publication of the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)
New Year’s resolutions for your compliance program
2024
Past Exhale titles shed light on compliance programs
What are compliance policies and procedures?
How compliance officers can help protect doctors
Compliance officers and RAC requests
Manage the reaction
Time to put the water into buckets (a.k.a. action plans)
Structure, process, outcome
Annual compliance program dashboards
Key differences and intersections of roles
What is the priority?
Make a plan and work the plan
Improve the compliance officer’s relationships
2023
Some thoughts about “quiet quitting”
Compliance officer training on Medicare billing
Compliance risk areas and utilization review
Don't forget to look at that OIG self-disclosure list
Verify your policies and procedures
Is optimizing reimbursement a bad thing?
Do you know your organization’s employee turnover rate?
One of the top risks: Ransomware
Free resources for cybersecurity
No such thing as a slow day
Practical mini-compliance risk assessment
2022
Stay factual and not emotional
RAC and government audits
Privacy breach risk assessments
OIG advisory opinions
Compliance surveys
Hospice audits
Well controlled risks
Feedback loops
Build your expert dream team
Levels of findings
The education of healthcare boards
Responsibility or accountability
2021
Help me prove we are doing this right
Conditions of payment
Critical thinking skills
OCR Phase 2 report
Connecting clinical with financial
IT systems
Have marketing help market
Compliance team reference library
OIG management challenges
Compliance risk assessments
OIG compliance audit
Reduced staffing increases risk
2020
Likelihood and impact scoring
Employee turnover
RAC topics and SMRC current projects
The 'circle of trust'
Conflict of interest
Be ready to change priorities
COVID-19
Mentor the next generation
How do we know we are OK?
Back to basics
Compliance officers are never caught up
Can you see the big picture?