The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) is offering a guide for measuring the effectiveness of a healthcare compliance program.
OIG intends the guide as a source for “a large number of ideas for measuring the various elements of a compliance program ... to give healthcare organizations as many ideas as possible, to be broad enough to help any type of organization, and let the organization choose which ones best suit its needs.” However, the guide emphasizes that it is not to be considered a best practice, template, or checklist for compliance.
Measuring Compliance Program Effectiveness: A Resource Guide includes portions that will apply more to some organizations than others, OIG notes.
“An organization may choose to use only a small number of these in any given year. Using them all or even a large number of these is impractical and not recommended,” the guide says. “Importantly, any attempt to use this as a standard or a certification is discouraged by those who worked on this project; one size truly does not fit all.”
The compliance guide is available online at http://bit.ly/2nFBFCZ.
