Director of Legal Affairs CarDon & Associates, Inc.
Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:
Sarah Couture, RN, CHC, CHRC: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Joseph Zielinski, JD, CHC, CHRC: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
We all know that SNFs must have a compliance program, but the mere presence of a compliance program does not mean that it works or that it’s effective. The government expects compliance programs to effectively prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse. In fact, an effective compliance program can decrease penalties in cases of wrongdoing. So how do you achieve effectiveness? This session will discuss the regulatory background and expectation of effectiveness, describe what effectiveness looks like, and give some practical tips to achieving compliance program effectiveness, as well as provide a tool to help you measure/demonstrate your program’s effectiveness.
Learning Objectives:
Discuss Compliance Program basics for SNFs: what are the expectations, and what should we be doing.
Discuss why effectiveness matters, including the regulatory foundation for effectiveness as the expectation and why it is essential (as opposed to a “paper program” or checklist mentality).
Describe simple ways for a skilled nursing organization to pursue compliance program effectiveness: thinking smarter not harder.