A1. Necessary Components Of The Plan:
1. Ensure policies and procedures are written: Expectations must be established and communicated to staff & business associates so that all know and understand what is expected of them. Must clearly communicate policies and prevent activities that are against the law.
2. Establish a compliance officer and compliance committee: Compliance officer must be a high level executive within the organization. This person must be able and in an authoritive position to implement and enforce the compliance programs policies and procedures.
3. Do not knowingly delegate authority to individuals who may have a tenancy to take part in illegal activities: Make sure criminal background checks are performed on all staff.
4. Communicate standards and procedures to each and every member of the staff: Policies and procedures must be distributed and made available to staff – make sure there is language that all staff have the duty and responsibility to incorporate your compliance standards into their everyday work.
5. Monitor and audit your plan to ensure compliance: Honest behaviors and actions must be reinforced by ensuring checks and balances are in place. Internal and external audits should be conducted at regular intervals. Staff must also have easy access to report concerns or violations.
6. Ensure disciplinary action occurs for violations of your policies and procedures: Adherence to the compliance policies and procedures is of utmost importance to your facility. Ensuring violations of policies are dealt with appropriate disciplinary actions will ensure compliance with the standards.
7. As necessary, modify the program to continue detecting and preventing violations of law: This is especially importan...
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C3. Updating The Training Program
The training program must be reviewed and evaluated as organization and industry policies, procedures and practices change. Training material should always be current and relevant to current happenings within the industry. At a minimum the training program material should be reviewed once per year by the Coding Compliance Manager and Coding Compliance Committee. Also, asking training session attendees to take brief surveys on the training program materials can help provide insight and direction to how current and future material could be developed to maintain relevancy and staff interest.
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...anges to aspects that are affected by any of these forces in order to reflect current practices and requirements. Furthermore, the company will ensure that the compliance program is effective in making employees and managers abide by the ethics programs.
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The recommended policies must be sent to the management whether they are meeting the requirements of the organization or not. If they are not meeting the requirements they need to be modified.
The coding compliance plan should include an up to date set of policies and procedure. Policies and Procedures should be maintained updated at all times.
UNDERSTAND THE IMPACT OF POLICY, LEGISLATION, REGULATION, CODES OF PRACTICE AND STANDARDS ON ORGANISATION POLICY AND PRACTICE.
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in making sure the correct methods are followed out with regards to health, safety, hygiene matters;
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