BC Advantage - 2019 Issue 2

How to be an Effective Compliance Officer

Being a Compliance Officer can often feel like a thankless job. When something goes wrong within the healthcare facility, the Compliance Officer is one of the first people considered when it is time to assign blame. The challenge is that the Compliance Officer is charged with ensuring the organization functions properly across multiple departments, following the policies of multiple payers including state and federal government agencies, without the ability to individually supervise each person responsible for ensuring compliance.  In addition, leadership in many organizations is quick to view compliance as an expense that doesn't generate revenue...

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