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Written Policies
& Procedures
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Establishing your practice’s compliance standards
through the development of a code of conduct via written
policies & procedures
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HCIR Creation
& Integration of a Compliant Employee Policy & Procedure
Manual tailored specifically for you
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Providing
Proper Documentation and Forms for Implementing and
Maintaining Compliance within organization
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Online
resource for all information on compliance, from
government laws to helpful websites
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Designated Compliance Officers |
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Assigning compliance monitoring efforts to a person or
persons via compliance program activities within your
organization
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Designation of
Personnel within your organization to work with HCIR on
the Compliance Program
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Training and
Education for Officers that will be the “eyes and ears”
of compliance within organization
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Will hold
monthly meetings with compliance officers and briefly
review compliance issues of client
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Comprehensive Training & Education |
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Conducting training & education on practice ethics,
policies, and procedures
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Will provide
regular meetings/seminars on top problematic areas
within the organization to all personnel.
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Certify and
Re-Certify employees that require specialization
training, and make sure personnel are up to date
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Use outside
resources in training & education (Specialists in areas
such as OSHA, HIPAA, etc)
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Online tools
for individual training and education on all of
compliance
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Internal Monitoring
& Auditing |
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Conducting monitoring efforts focusing on high-risk
billing, coding, and general office issues through
performance of audits
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Performance
of Assessments & Audits on your organization to find
problematic areas in your practice & address them
(Covers HIPAA, CLIA, OSHA, CMS, General Office Issues,
and all other areas in compliance)
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Implement
tools for the monitoring of your personnel for
non-compliant activities that protects you up front
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Online
reporting & monitoring tools to monitor everything in
compliance simply at the push of a button
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Accessible Lines
of Communication |
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Developing communication within office, such as
discussions at meetings regarding compliance issues and
community bulletin boards, to keep personnel updated
with all of compliance
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HCIR uses and
implements several methods of communication of
compliance between them and the client – from Telephone
Hotline Numbers, Mobile contacts and email addresses, to
Confidential Reporting Forms.
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Provides an
open forum for members of HCIR to communicate openly
about compliance issues program
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Implements
tools (recommended by the OIG) for flow of
communication, from Drop Boxes to Bulletin Boards
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Communicates
Regularly with the Compliance Officers to regularly
monitor and update client’s program
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Enforcing Disciplinary Standards |
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Enforcing actions & standards by making clear stances or
ensuring employees are aware that compliance is treated
seriously and violations will be dealt with consistently
and uniformly
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HCIR
recommends a listing of disciplinary standards and
actions (found within manual) and reviews with client
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Along with
Compliance Officer(s), will strictly enforce
non-compliance issues and treat every investigation
seriously and uniformly to prevent any notion of
discrimination
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Responding Appropriately to Issues |
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Able to respond to violations through investigative
means of allegations and the disclosure of incidents to
appropriate government entities
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HCIR installs
and implements a standardized investigational system for
all issues and violations
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Implements and
uses compliant forms and documentation for all issues
and investigations
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Works with
Compliance Officers on issues and implements policies to
remove problematic areas of compliance
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