tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2004 Issue 14

Compliance: What New Sentencing Guidelines Mean For COs

The HCCA fears compliance officers could be scapegoats for operational breakdowns.The Health Care Compliance Association made itself clear to the U.S. Sentencing Commission: One compliance officer does not a compliance program make. In a Feb. 16 letter, the HCCA spoke up on behalf of compliance personnel who could bear the brunt of the blame for their company's shortcomings -- if proposed sentencing guidelines go through unchanged. The HCCA told the commission that as it stands now, a portion of the guidelines inappropriately place total responsibility for the implementation and effectiveness of a compliance program squarely on...

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