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Section 6401 of the ACA -- an often-forgotten provision -- requires that all providers and suppliers, regardless of their size, institute formal compliance programs. New practices will no longer be able to enroll in Medicare or Medicaid without a compliance program in place, and already existing practices also will be expected to institute them.”
We flipped through back issues of
Medical Practice Compliance Alert and found that when the ACA was released, experts predicted that HHS would issue a model plan that was difficult to distinguish from the
OIG’s long standing model compliance plans. As to whether being required to implement a plan will be a big burden for providers, including physician practices, we’re not so sure.
We don’t want to set up a survey but we’d like to hear your thoughts on mandatory compliance plans. Is it a smart way to keep fraudsters out of the program, nothing but a waste of time or something else? Email
jkyles@decisionhealth.com with your thoughts.