It should be no secret to health care providers of the government’s recommendation that ALL health care professionals implement compliance programs to self-police their practices. With these recommendations numbers of health care professionals have implemented formal compliance programs.
Also with these recommendations a cottage industry was born for compliance companies to assist the health care professional, when needed, on implementing and administering compliance programs. The question for many health care professionals, when assistance is needed, is who to use…
Unfortuantely, numbers of so-called compliance companies have been created that appear to have minimal expertise and experience to provide the full-range (audit to administration) of appropriate guidance and have jumped on compliance as a means for some quick bucks.