Make sure that your practice has its annual and ongoing check ups.
Annual and ongoing check ups for your practice enables proper compliance this is key preventative medicine for your practice.
Benchmark audits review small samples of data and set the baseline for future audits. An expanded audit is necessary, if a benchmark audit results in areas of concern. A plan of corrective action must be developed, when a ?diagnosis? of the problem is established.
Follow-up monitoring and continued audits are important to determine whether the corrective action plan is effective.
If the risk assessments don?t identify any issues, it means the practice is not looking hard enough. The point of a compliance program is to help identify areas of weaknesses and potential issues, early, so that it can be corrected.
The employees should be trained on the code of conduct, how to identify fraud and abuse, and how to report it. Also need to provide job specific training to avoid errors and assure revenue integrity.
All staff should understand that everyone is responsible for compliance, and that it is a condition of employment. Enact a policy that whoever reports a potential violation, in good faith, will not be retaliated against. Open lines of communication and a way for employees to report incidents anonymously must be practiced.
If any problem arises, it should be corrected immediately and going forward. Compliance is a necessary investment, whether one considers compliance to be insurance or preventive medicine.