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The Art of Compliance

Why, Why, Why, Why, Why You Should Utilize Root-Cause Analyses.

Brittany Tomkies Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017   Over the past decade, risk management and compliance professionals have moved away from asking “what happened” and “who did it” to asking “why” the error occurred in hopes of developing effective safeguards to prevent reoccurrence of those errors. As a result of …
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How Communications Play a Key Role in the Hospital Readmissions Reduction

Fannie Fang Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017   CMS has reported that Medicare expenditures amount to roughly 17 billion a year on patient readmissions alone. Studies show that almost twenty percent of all patients who are admitted to a U.S. hospital makes a repeat visit within thirty days of discharge. …
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Effective Compliance Training Methods to Increase Reporting

Brittany Tomkies Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2017   A September 2016 survey from the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE) found that 83% of compliance professionals said their program prevented misconduct at least once in the last two years with 46% of respondents saying their compliance program prevented five …
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Attending the 15th Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute

Corinne Nierzwicki Production Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2018   The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics recently hosted the 15th Compliance & Ethics Institute (CEI) in Chicago, Illinois. Several Loyola faculty members and students, including myself, attended CEI. I had an excellent experience at CEI networking with attendees and learning from the …
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Being Held to Standards Beyond the Legal Minimum

Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law   Here is a link to a short blog post I recently published on the SCCE’s The Compliance & Ethics Blog (“Being Held to Standards Beyond the Legal Minimum”).  Organizations must go into policy-writing with eyes wide open on what exposure …
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A New Role for Compliance Programs in HHS-OIG Resolutions of Non-compliant Conduct

Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law   A recent commentary from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) indicates it will not consider the existence of an effective compliance program as a positive factor in resolving civil non-compliance but it …
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Elemental: Internal or External Hotlines?

Ryan Meade Editor-in-Chief Director of Regulatory Compliance Studies at Loyola University Chicago School of Law   Yesterday I gave a webinar on compliance program hotlines and an interesting question came in after the broadcast: “Internally staffed compliance hotlines seem like a bad idea.  Doesn’t an internal hotline increase the company’s regulatory risk?”  Internal hotlines could increase …
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Adding Federal Grant Compliance to the Audit Plan: the University of Florida Case

Greg Grabinski Executive Editor Loyola University Chicago School of Law, JD 2016   One of the best sources for designing a compliance program’s annual audit plan is to look around to see what is happening at peer institutions.  If there is a regulatory settlement in a peer organization’s similar business line, then the subject-matter should …
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