CodeMap® Compliance Briefing: August 13, 2015

Editor's Welcome:

The following briefing discusses the importance of employee compliance training. In the present environment of increased enforcement actions, laboratories must pay attention to this often neglected component of an effective compliance program. It is our experience that many diagnostic and hospital providers do not devote adequate time and resources to their employee compliance training programs. In fact, in my review of laboratories and hospitals nationwide, training is the most likely component of a provider's compliance program to be either not fully and effectively implemented, or ignored entirely. This can be problematic, because it is also our experience that when a regulator or investigator is assessing the effectiveness o....

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