Check out the full compliance risk assessment series here:

1. Integrating basics into your compliance plan
2. Integrating tools into your compliance plan
3. How reliable data improves your compliance plan
4. Preparation and use of action plans

This is a follow up to the three-part series of the “Risk Assessments” blogs. As a reminder, the blogs addressed considerations in conducting risk assessments for healthcare providers and organizations, different types of tools and methods that can be used in these assessments, and what to do with the information obtained from the assessments, including reporting results of the assessments and mitigating identified risks.

The next step in the compliance risk assessment process is developing and implementing action plans needed from the results of the assessments.

Learn how to protect your healthcare organization from excluded referring, ordering, prescribing physicians and entities.

You might hesitate to self-disclose fraud and exclusions to the OIG due to the time investment and immediate fines. However, according to the OIG, the process does not take as long as you might think.