Policies for Compliance Plans
COMPLIANCE PLANS. 5
Compliance Plans
Weltee Wolo
Rasmussen College
Author Note
This paper is being submitted on April 26, 2017, Nichole Crais’s
Regulation and Compliance in Healthcare H340/HSA3422 course
Compliance Plans
A compliance plan is a system that tries to look for factors that cause lack of compliance in an organization and the rules that can be put in place to eliminate or reduce the level of severity of those issues. As the compliance officer in a medical facility, there is the need to formulate two compliance plans. One will be for the medical care providers such as the nurses and doctors while the other one will govern the health care beneficiaries who happen to be the patients or people visiting the medical facility to get medical attention (Burke, 2001).
Compliance plans in medical facilities stipulate the provisions that should be complied with in the Medicare center. Medical practitioners have to undergo facility training so that they can acquire the required knowledge and skills and give them competence in the field. The compliance plan also has zero tolerance in the offering of medical care services (Burke, 2001). The health care provider is given a chance to fight fraud within the institution that may occur between health officers or between a health officer and an outside party.
A compliance plan should have the following elements in general; first is a standard of conduct for the employees in the medical facility and it should be presented in the form of writing. The second is the development and the readiness of the facility to comply and address areas and incidents that are likely to cause fraud at the facility. It should also show the qualifications that the compliance officer has to run the program. It should cover the development and how employees should be offered training and education on things that they do not have knowledge about. Techniques and tools used to evaluate compliance behaviors by employees in the organization. It should have a system that explains the corrective measures to be taken against employees who violate the rules they had agreed to follow ((Hasib, 2013).
The main purpose of having a compliance plan in a health facility is to ensure that the management gains a proper internal control of the employee behavior. It is used as a corrective tool to prevent, detect and conduct that does not adhere to the organizations set of rules and regulations. It is also used by the employees to raise issues affecting them about compliance to ensure that they are properly addressed. The compliance program is put in place so that the organization can build a tradition of prevention, detection, and the resolution of issues arising from misconduct in the organization (South Dakota, 2010). This program gives health practitioners the urge to strive and provide quality services to patients at health centers.
A compliance plan is a tool that can be used by the management to create a good public image from the way its staff has their work done. It can also be used as a marketing tool by any organization. When the employees comply with the rules and standards set as per the compliance plan, they will all benefit from their compliance. The compliance leads to customer satisfaction from the high-quality services offered by the facility (Hasib, 2013). When the employees practice high-level responsibility, it helps them to grow a good reputation to their superiors standing high chances of promotion in future.
By getting the right kind of education and skills to administer services to patients helps the employee to have confidence in themselves and stand high chances of promotion in the workplace. Good communication within themselves and also that with their clients gives the whole organization a good public image and increases the number of their customers. Adherence to the plan also prevents losses that could have occurred if the health providers could not have acted right such as the loss of lives and also financial losses (Herzig, 2010).
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Burke, L. E., & Ockene, I. S. (2001). Compliance in healthcare and research. Armonk, NY: Futura Pub. Co.
Hasib, M. (2013). Impact of security culture on security compliance in healthcare in the United States of America: A strategic assurance approach.
Herzig, T. W., & Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. (2010). Information security in healthcare: Managing risk. Chicago, IL: HIMSS.
South Dakota Energy Codes Workgroup. South Dakota., & South Dakota. (2010). Final report: Recommendations & compliance plan. Pierre, S.D.: South Dakota Bureau of Finance and Management.
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