In the middle of a busy day, most physicians are thinking about their patients, not about their practice’s compliance risk.
Not enough people – even at the executive level of health systems – worry about compliance risk on a daily basis. It’s easy to think an audit won’t happen to you.
Unfortunately it’s not uncommon – for even well-respected organizations – to receive a negative audit outcome. Last year, a leading physician management company was fined $60 million by CMS. Don’t wait until it’s too late. Here are the organizational characteristics that increase compliance risk, and four steps you should take to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis.
Want to read more? Check out the full article, originally published in Becker’s Hospital Review, here.