Question

Visit the website of a large health care organization such as Humana or Tenet Healthcare. See if you can you find their policies on compliance and ethics. Has the organization addressed all of the essential compliance elements?

Answer 1

Ans) Tenet’s Ethics and Compliance program helps ensure that everyone in the company understands and complies with all related laws and policies as outlined in our Standards of Conduct. Without exception, these standards apply to every colleague, medical staff member and our corporate board of directors.

- Our Ethics and Compliance Program functions in accordance with a Quality, Compliance and Ethics Program Charter and reports up to the Board of Directors.

The Charter requires that every Tenet employee:

• Follow the Standards of Conduct as a condition of employment;
• Participate in annual and refresher ethics training and role-based compliance training;
• Work with facility and enterprise compliance teams to resolve compliance matters; and
• Contact the Ethics Action Line if issues of concern are not resolved timely or to our satisfaction.

Policies and procedures that reflect our values

- At Tenet, we hold ourselves to rigorous standards for ethics and compliance that reflect our values. That includes promoting open identification, discussion, reporting and resolution of ethics and compliance matters without fear of retaliation. We regularly engage with our employees on the policies and procedures that govern our business.