Evaluating and Improving a Compliance Program; A Resource for Health Care Board Members, Health Care Executives, and Compliance Officers

The HCCA Board of Directors and the many volunteers from across the country who served on the HCCA Compliance Performance Measurement Initiative Task Force and its Steering and Drafting Committees, are pleased to announce the release of the following document, “Evaluating and Improving a Compliance Program, A Resource for Health Care Board Members, Health Care Executives and Compliance Officers.”

This document is the product of an extensive collaborative process and reflects hundreds of volunteer hours of research, meetings, drafting, collaborative discussions, and decades of collective professional experience, as well as the important feedback received from the HCCA membership through surveys, interactions at meetings, and finally, through comments received during a 45-day review and comment period

We trust that this document will provide added value by identifying and sharing information and best practices regarding the operation and evaluation of compliance programs. While principally developed for the benefit of HCCA members, this reference is intended to be a useful guide to all health care compliance professionals. Nevertheless, it is important to note that this document is not intended nor should it be used as a “cookbook” or “list of standards.” One size certainly does not fit all. As a reference, you should use and tailor this information to meet the specific needs of your organization and to better inform your board members, senior management and executives.

This document will also serve as the foundation for the next steps in HCCA’s continued efforts to provide practical tools to you, our members, to assess the performance of compliance programs within health care organizations. Recognizing the complexity and variety of compliance issues within different health care industry sectors, the HCCA Board has assigned the task of developing specific performance measurement tools for different health care industry sectors to the HCCA Compliance Focus Groups (CFG’s), e.g., Health Systems CFG, Home Health CFG, Pharmaceutical CFG, etc. The CFG’s will provide an appropriate and useful forum to attract volunteers and their ideas to tailor and customize these tools to fit specific industry sector needs.

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