Pastin Report: Volume 1
December 1998
Number 6
Hotline Options: Practical Advice for Implementing Your Reporting Mechanism click here.
The Hotline Checklist click here.
Training Tips: More Practical Guidance On Training in Your Compliance Program click here.
How Many Compliance Officers Is Enough? A Footnote to the OIG's Guidance for Hospitals click here.
Industry Focus: Getting Your Arms Around the OIG's Guidance for Billing-Company Compliance click here.
Case Study In Compliance: Are Compliance Officers Ever Off Duty? click here.
November 1998
Number 5
The Training is Draining: How to Make it Easier and More Effective click here.
Improving the Troubled Relationship Between Compliance and Human Resources click here.
A Better Deal? Assessing the New Voluntary Disclosure Guidelines click here.
Case Study in Compliance: What Do You Mean It's an Ethics Issue, Not Compliance? click here.
October 1998
Number 4
So Prove it: Strategies for Assessing Your Compliance Program click here.
The Compliance Officer's Toolbox: The Proof-of-Plan Book (Checklist) click here.
Addressing Your Compliance Program Risk Areas: OIG Work Plan Items for 1999 click here.
The Hidden Compliance Traps in Billing for the Professional Component of X-rays and EKGs click here.
Case Study in Compliance: Courtesy to a Fault click here.
September 1998
Number 3
Compliance Surveys: How to Evaluate The Effectiveness to Your Program click here.
Compliance Investigations, Part II: Preparing Your Organization click here.
The Compliance Officer's Lexicon Terms Used in Government Probes click here.
Unique Challenges of Developing a Compliance Program In Physician Practice Management Companies click here.
The Compliance Officer's Toolbox: Understanding Attorney-Client Privilege click here.
Industry Focus: Compliance Programs in Home Health Care click here.
Case Study in Compliance: Dealing With Issues of Physician Integrity When it Conflicts with Compliance click here.
August 1998
Number 2
Risk Assessment, Audits and Florida Swampland: Protecting Your Budget click here.
The Compliance Officer's Toolbox: Compliance Risk Assessment Grid click here.
Industry Focus: Outside Billing Companies: Compliance Risk or Compliance Benefit? click here.
- With the Compliance Checklist for Use of Outside Billers
An Introduction to Compliance Web Sites click here.
Conducting Compliance Investigations: Part I click here.
- With Internal Investigations: Dos and Don'ts
The Compliance Officer's Lexicon click here.
Case Study in Compliance: Navigating the Minefield of Free Discharge Planners with Confidentiality click here.
July 1998
Number 1
Making the Inspector General's Hospital Compliance Guidance Work for You click here.
Industry Focus: Compliance Programs for the Long-Term Care Industry click here.
The Compliance Untouchables: Using Computer Tools to Protect Your Organization click here.
An Update on Federal Agency Responsibilities click here.
The Practitioner's Corner: When the Auditor Becomes the Compliance Officer click here.
The Compliance Officer's Toolbox: The 12 Tools of the Compliance Officer click here.
Case Study in Compliance: When Ethical Obligations Conflict with Confidentiality click here.