Question

What is Heatlhcare Compliance? What is the role of the Office of Inspector General in the compliance process? What resources are available for compliance training? Please provide one reference sourece in APA 6 Format

Answer 1

Healthcare Compliance is the process to follow set of the guidelines which are in the form of rules and regulation related to the healthcare practices such as patient related information, patient safety, patient related billing. These procedures are used to define the correct conduct, training the staff and monitoring the actual process followed versus the defined process.

The role of the of the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is more in investigative in nature and in the compliance process, is to audit the operation and find the case of any type of misconduct, fraud or any type of abuse related to government related process. Also, examines all the actions performed by the military organizations and government-based agencies. They perform audit and investigations independently to ensure if any wrongdoing is reported out, or the current process is compliant with respect to the general policies and law. The audit performed by the OIG focus more on the security related process, any misuse of the agency funds, criminal activities, fraud, waste, misconduct etc.

The compliance training resources can be referred from Health care compliance association (HCCA) based on the products they offer and the need of the organization.