Annual OSHA Check-Up

Most healthcare providers are aware of the need to comply with the Occupational Health And Safety Act (OSHA) to assure, so far as possible, safe and healthful working conditions for their office staff. Here is a quick checklist of the annual OSHA requirement:

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Compliance Corner: OSHA Written Standards and Annual Training

You have patients in the waiting room, two patients in exam rooms, your receptionists has a question for you, and right as your cell phone goes off, your assistant is asking you about a prescription. And when the sun sets, you are returning calls to patients and colleagues. OSHA compliance may not be at the

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New York’s Medicaid Provider Compliance Program

The New York State Social Service Law and its implementing regulations require that Medicaid providers develop, adopt and implement effective compliance programs aimed at detecting fraud, waste, and abuse in the Medicaid program. These programs are mandatory for those providers operating under Article 28 or 36 of the Public Health Law and Articles 16 or

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OSHA Directs Employers To Address Workplace Violence

On September 8, 2011, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued its first directive on Enforcement Procedures for Investigating or Inspecting Workplace Violence Incidents. The directive provides guidelines and general policies and procedures that apply when OSHA investigators conduct an inspection under a national, regional or local emphasis program or in response to incidents of

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Why Individual and Small Group Physician Practices Need A Compliance Program

More than a decade ago the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued Compliance Program Guidelines for Individual And Small Group Physician Practices, which are a set of voluntary guidelines for a small group physician practice or an individual practitioner. Nowadays, when federal and state governments are increasingly interested in cutting fraud, waste and abuse

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