title: Building an effective corporate compliance plan.
abstract: Corporate compliance plans are essential for healthcare organizations to cope with, and perhaps even stave off, investigations arising from allegations of illegal business practices. Initial development and implementation of a corporate compliance plan can be facilitated through four steps: determining the content of the code of conduct, determining how the code will be distributed, assigning responsibility for implementing the plan, and appointing a compliance task force to guide the implementation process. Special attention should be paid to education requirements of the United States Sentencing Guidelines to see that all employees understand and can apply provisions of the plan.
authors.affiliation: Valley Baptist Medical Center, Harlingen, TX, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ryan
mesh_terms: D004647:Employee Discipline; D004991:Ethics, Institutional; D005375:Financial Audit / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005607:Fraud / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D007318:Inservice Training; D008330:Management Audit; D016730:Program Development; D014481:United States