P17

TRACK:: Quality of Care | Sunday, 1:30 – 4:30 PM

Lessons from Mandatory Compliance

New York Medicaid requires every hospital to have an 8 element compliance program, and to certify that it is “effective.” This session will discuss predictable issues and lessons learned from the implementation of mandatory compliance programs, which are included in all new national health care plan proposals. Some issues:

• Measuring “effective”; dealing with vendors, contract staff, contracted departments; vendor, board member, and employee screening for exclusion, debarment, and affiliates
  
• Central compliance structures in organizations with multiple facilities, business lines; hot issues identified through compliance and disclosure

Jim Sheehan, Medicaid Inspector General, Office of the Medicaid Inspector General

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