As with so many other areas, communication, or a lack of it, can be a big problem when it comes to eDiscovery. Legal doesn’t always adequately communicate what it needs. The business unit doesn’t share information about all...more
Managing whistleblowers is always a hot topic, and you’ll find it on the agenda at the 2025 SCCE Annual Compliance & Ethics Institute. To provide a preview of what you will see if you join us in Nashville, we sat down with...more
8/28/2025
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Here’s a little nightmare every compliance officer dreads. You leave your current job for an exciting new one, only to find out that you just walked into a position where the compliance efforts are token at best because the...more
It’s time to think bigger when it comes to helpline data. Yes, it’s still important to look at traditional metrics such as the number of calls and the substantiation rate. But, there is so much more that can be...more
8/7/2025
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There’s always a “but” when it comes to AI. It has great potential, but there’s always the risk of bad things happening.
In the case of the False Claims Act and healthcare, that’s very much the case.
In a recent article for...more
As important as gaining access to the board is, using that time properly is even more crucial. Becky Rohr, Chief Compliance Officer and head of Investigations at Ericsson, will be sharing her insights and advice on this topic...more
Professors Todd Haugh and Suneal Bedi of the Institute for Corporate Governance & Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University recently published a paper: Retheorizing Corporate Compliance. In it they argued...more
In November 2024, the Office of Inspector General at Health and Human Services released its Nursing Facility: Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance. The document is part of an effort to modernize how HHS OIG...more
Professors Guido Palazzo and Ulrich Hoffrage are skeptical. When they hear that there was a bad apple at the core of a scandal, they are hesitant to accept that explanation. Instead, they argue in this podcast and in their...more
On May 12, 2025 the head of the Criminal Division at the US Department of Justice issued a memo to all Criminal Division personnel with the subject: Focus, Fairness and Efficiency in the Fight Against White Collar Crime.
To...more
Mark Diamond wants you to stop thinking of records retention as a chore and start thinking of it as a driver of compliance. In this podcast the President & CEO of Contoural shares that retention schedules have grown in...more
Risk assessments are not new in healthcare, and in specific regulatory areas are required. But, that doesn’t mean things aren’t changing. More and more organizations are embracing enterprise risk assessments (ERM) as a way...more
These are fractious times, and it’s often difficult to figure out what to do, what comes next and keep people with divergent views working together.
Despite these challenges, Anna Romberg, Executive Vice President,...more
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan were all born out of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. With large energy deposits of national gas, many global companies and their suppliers are operating...more
It’s not a good time to be a manufacturer of ten-foot poles. That’s because with the growing number of sanctions regimes, there are an increasing number of companies and individuals that businesses shouldn’t touch with a poll...more
Recently Protiviti released an intriguing report: Top Compliance Priorities for U.S. Healthcare Organizations in 2025. In this podcast their Global Healthcare Compliance Leader, Leyla Erkan, CHC, CHP, CHRC, shares some of the...more
Virginia Macuibhne is not your typical compliance officer. It’s not surprising then that this former global chief compliance at Agilent and Roche, who also has an Etsy shop selling irreverent, NSFW compliance merch, decided...more
There’s a lot of discussion about the relationship between compliance and the general counsel. Less words, though, have been dedicated to the important relationship between compliance and HR.
Netherlands-based Asaf Shalev,...more
The words “works council” inspires fear and dread in the hearts and minds of many who have never worked with them. They need not, says Lisanne Winde, attorney at law at Wybenga advocaten and Alain Lambert, regional ethics and...more
An audit by a Unified Program Integrity Contractor auditor, better known as a UPIC audit, can be a very scary thing. Healthcare providers are often shocked and even indignant to receive a letter notifying them of the audit...more
In addition to releasing its General Compliance Program Guidance, the OIG at HHS announced plans to publish a series of Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidances (ICPG). The first of these, addressing nursing...more
KISS takes on a new meaning in this podcast: Keep it Streamlined & Strategic.
Keeping it streamlined and strategic is also the topic of a session at the 2025 HCCA Compliance Institute...more
Are your helpline calls being responded to properly? Are the investigations proceeding expeditiously and properly? To find out, it’s good to do an audit periodically.
Before you can begin, though, you need to determine if...more
Think you don’t have to worry about the SEC because you’re at a private company or a non-profit? Think again says, Kevin Muhlendorf, attorney at Wiley Rein. You may still end up in the Commission’s crosshairs.
He warns that...more
Oh, Artificial Intelligence. So much promise, and so much risk. What’s a compliance and ethics professional to do? Start by listening to this podcast about the chapter “Managing the Ethics and Compliance Risks of Artificial...more