As 2023 winds down and the countdown to 2024 quickly approaches, compliance professionals looking for ideas to improve their program’s effectiveness should consider adding these five activities to their compliance programs—if they haven’t already.
Compliance program oversight
5. Given the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) focus on the compliance committee’s role, review the committee charter to ensure it reflects OIG’s expectations that the committee provides oversight of the risk assessment and annually reviews the training and education and policies.[1]
4. With OIG’s changes to corporate integrity agreements, compliance officer duties should be evaluated for noncompliance job responsibilities that may interfere with their ability to perform or pose a potential conflict of interest.[2]
