Hospital Auditing and Monitoring: Sample Programs for Key Risk Areas

Loose Leaf Binder + bonus CD-ROM
ISBN 1601460767
9781601460769
HCPro / Opus
October 2007
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This binder and CD-ROM are filled with actual audit programs used by auditors and compliance officers in the field. Hospital Auditing and Monitoring is a step-by-step, practical manual that offers sample audit programs for the most troublesome areas that a hospital must audit.

Auditing and monitoring is one of the seven essential elements of a compliance program. Healthcare facilities must audit and monitor all aspects of their organization to ensure compliance with government rules and regulations.

Is creating your audit programs a bigger project than actually performing your audits? If so, you're not alone. With the lack of resources available for healthcare facility audit program development, your peers are also struggling with this necessary task. With Hospital Auditing and Monitoring you'll be able to:

choose a topic you want to audit,
find out what you need to look for, and
se the sample audit plan specific to that topic.

A user-friendly, time-saving CD-ROM that allows you to adapt the audit plans and tools for your own facility and make implementation a cinch. Don't struggle trying to develop audit programs. Auditing and monitoring is one of the seven essential elements of a compliance program. Your facility must audit and monitor all aspects of your organization to ensure compliance with strict government rules and regulations - a difficult and time-consuming process for internal auditors and compliance officers. Let this book and CD-ROM package save you time with 64 plans that walk you step-by-step through conducting an effective audit. Updated with NEW audit plans for hot, high-risk areas!

Cardiac rehab compliance
Cardiac stents
Clinical trials
Cost reports
Gifts and gratuities
HIPAA privacy and security
Medicare medical necessity
OIG Supplemental Compliance Program Guidance for Hospitals compliance
Organ acquisition
Wage indices

This resource will pay for itself again and again. You'll save the time you'd spend developing new audit programs from scratch and get:

detailed information on how to audit top risk areas of your hospital.
64 sample audit programs, all of which are customizable and included on the CD-ROM
how-to audit program advice and tools for specific departments such as legal/compliance, coding and billing, financial and business office, and technology and security.
audit programs for non-acute facilities, including skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation centers, and physician practices.

With authors from Baker Newman Noyes, an accounting firm that specializes in healthcare auditing with staff members who once served as CMS contractors, you can rest assured that each plan is accurate, up-to-date, and effective. Simply stated, with Hospital Auditing and Monitoring Toolkit, Second Edition, you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to effectively and efficiently audit and monitor 64 high-risk areas to maintain compliance, and avoid the negative consequences of noncompliance.

With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety.

(information from the publisher)

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