Departmental Compliance Responsibilities

Departmental Compliance Responsibilities

The Departmental Compliance Leaders’ responsibilities include:

  1. monitoring compliance with the department compliance plan through routine reviews and departmental billing;
  2. providing billing-related education and training as necessary and ensuring that such education and training is received by the relevant individuals;
  3. monitoring corrective action plans whenever compliance issues are identified.

Objective

To ensure that each clinical department addresses its compliance obligations.

Policy

Each clinical department must produce a departmental compliance plan every two years to address compliance efforts on a departmental basis. Each department or division compliance responsibilities shall include the following features:

  • written policies and procedures for billing activities undertaken by department personnel;
  • educational and training programs to address billing issues of particular importance to the department or division;
  • a program for ensuring, and documenting, that all new department or division personnel, including CUIMC clinicians, billing personnel and administrative personnel, receive training with regard to proper billing and that all existing department or division personnel receive updated training with regard to proper billing as appropriate;
  • a monitoring plan to review compliance, with the results of such reviews being reported to the Departmental Compliance Leaders and to the OFBC;
  • a program for developing corrective action plans when compliance issues are identified, including procedures for involving OFBC and/or the Office of the General Counsel when significant issues/problems are identified.

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Office for Billing Compliance
Policy #: OFBC 1004
Original Date of Issue: 1996
Revised: 3/22/2023
Reviewed: 3/1/2024