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OIG continues to announce enforcement actions:
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Corporate Integrity Agreement Added to List http://go.usa.gov/0FX
September 14, 2011; U.S. Attorney; Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Durable Medical Equipment Company and Owner Sentenced In Medicare Fraud and Kickback Scheme
September 14, 2011; U.S. Attorney; Northern District of Georgia
Fake Doctor Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud and Criminal HIPAA Violations
September 14, 2011; U.S. Attorney; Southern District of Florida
Jury Convicts Miami Man for Stealing Identity Information from DCF Computers for Use in Medicare Fraud Scam
http://go.usa.gov/0aW
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September 12, 2011; U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey
Maxim Healthcare Services Charged with Fraud, Agrees to Pay Approximately $150 Million, Enact Reforms After False Billings Revealed as Common Practice
http://go.usa.gov/kmD
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August 31, 2011; U.S. Attorney; Southern District of Texas
Houston Medical Equipment Company Owner Lands in Federal Prison for Medicare Fraud
August 31, 2011; U.S. Department of Justice
Miami-Area Nurse Pleads Guilty in $25 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme
http://go.usa.gov/kmD
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Welcome to the October 2011 HITECH / HIPAA Compliance Newsletter.
The featured article this month is entitled HITECH / HIPAA Compliance: a checklist manifesto?
This article explores how, in a world that is increasingly becoming more complex, where the volume of knowledge often exceeds an individual's ability to assimilate and communicate it, simple tools such as checklists are having a profound and compelling positive impact on dealing with complexity. In particular, this article explores how checklists can be used as HITECH / HIPAA compliance tools.
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HITECH / HIPAA Compliance: a checklist manifesto? |
 This article explores how, in a world that is increasingly becoming more complex, where the volume of knowledge often exceeds an individual's ability to assimilate and communicate it, simple tools such as checklists are having a profound and compelling positive impact on dealing with complexity. In particular, this article explores how checklists can be used as HITECH / HIPAA compliance tools.
What is a compliance checklist?
 This begs the question: what do we mean by a checklist, and more specifically in this context, a legal/compliance checklist? The short answer is that it is a way to "attack" a particular problem or issue. Checklists have been widely adopted across industries (e.g. aviation) and are now becoming quite acclaimed in the practice of medicine. A checklist combines reusable solutions with analysis patterns, research, useful organizational techniques, and specific examples of successful approaches; it is similar to having your own personal library, which can be tailored specifically to your experience and background.
The publication of The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande, has led to widespread interest in checklists within the healthcare industry. A checklist, from our perspective, is most useful when an organization is confronting a difficult problem that is either entirely new, or for some reason has taken on additional complexity, or has never really been solved to stakeholders' satisfaction (e.g. the problem continues to be plagued with repeatable errors). Checklists provide guidance on thinking through and solving a problem based upon the experience of others.
A checklist is not a cookbook methodology or solution; there are no cookbook solutions to wicked problems, but rather a kind of roadmap from a fellow traveler that has already crossed the same (or similar) territory. A good compliance checklist from our perspective will make recommendations regarding policies, processes and tracking mechanisms within a particular compliance subject matter domain.
What comprises a compliance checklist item?
 In our view, compliance checklists are comprised of checklist items that have the following components:
- A policy statement that reflects an organization's intentions-the what;
- A definition of a process by which the policy is implemented-the how; and
- Suggested mechanism(s) for capturing the results of the process-the tracking mechanism or measurement.
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