The Pastin Report

This issue contains the following information:

• The Behavioral Health Compliance Challenge
• Case Studies in Compliance: Put the Patient First?
• The On-The-Job-Ethics Test
• Miscellany

This issue contains the following information:

• Publisher's Note
• Audit v. Compliance
• A Charter is not a Job Description
• Case Studies in Compliance
• Miscellany

This issue contains the following information:

• Using an Ethics-Survey Tool as a Means to Assess Your Compliance Program
• HIPAA 101
• Important News in Brief
• Cases Studies in Compliance: "Family and Friends"

This issue contains the following information:

• Outpatient PPS: A New Compliance Focus
• Profiles of Qui Tam Relators: Motives in the Madness
• Important News in Brief
• Our Readers Speak
• Best Practice Facts: Internal Audit and Compliance
• Case Study in Compliance: "To Report, or Not to Report"

This issue contains the following information:

• Making the Inspector General's Hospital Compliance Guidance Work for You
• Industry Focus: Compliance Programs for the Long-Term Care Industry
• Using Computer Tools to Protect Your Organization
• An Update on Federal Agency Responsibilities
• The Practitioner's Corner: When the Auditor Becomes the Compliance Officer
• The Compliance Officer's Toolbox: The 12 Tools of the Compliance Officer
• Case Study in Compliance: When Ethical Obligations Conflict with Confidentiality

This issue contains the following information:

• Risk Assessments, Audits and Florida Swampland: Protecting Your Budget
• The Compliance Officer's Toolbox: Compliance Risk Assessment Grid
• Industry Focus: Outside Billing Companies: Compliance Risk or Compliance Benefit?
• Compliance Checklist for Use of Outside Billers
• An Introduction to Compliance Web Sites
• Conducting Compliance Investigations: Part I
• Internal Investigations: Dos and Don'ts
• The Compliance Officer's Lexicon

This issue contains the following information:

• Compliance Surveys: How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your Program
• Compliance Investigations, Part II: Preparing Your Organization
• The Compliance Officer's Lexicon: Terms Used in Government Probes
• Challenges of Developing a PPMC Compliance Program
• The Compliance Officer's Toolbox: Understanding Attorney-Client Privilege
• Industry Focus: Compliance Programs in Home Health Care
• Case Study in Compliance: "Dealing with Issues of Physician Integrity When it Conflicts with Compliance"

This issue contains the following information:

• So Prove It: Strategies for Assessing Your Compliance Program
• The Compliance Officer's Toolbox: The Proof-of-Plan Book (Checklist)
• Addressing Your Compliance Risk Areas: OIG Work Plan Items for 1999
• Compliance Traps in Billing for Professional Component of X-rays and EKGs
• Case Study in Compliance: "Courtesy to a Fault"

This issue contains the following information:

• Training is Draining: How to Make it Easier and More Effective
• Improving the Troubled Relationship Between Compliance and Human Resources
• A Better Deal? Assessing the New Voluntary Disclosure Guidelines
• Excerpts from the New Provider Self-Disclosure Protocol
• Case Study in Compliance: "What Do You Mean It's an Ethics Issue, Not Compliance?"

This issue contains the following information:

• Hotline Options: Practical Advice for Implementing Your Reporting Mechanism
• The Hotline Checklist
• Training Tips: More Practical Guidance on Training in Your Compliance Program
• How Many Compliance Officer is Enough? A Footnote to the OIG's Guidance for Hospitals
• Industry Focus: Getting Your Arms Around the OIG's Guidance for Billing-Company Compliance
• Case Study in Compliance: "Are Compliance Officers Ever Off Duty?"