title: Compliance plans within the organizational context of physician practices. What may need to change?
abstract: The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General's (OIG's) draft compliance guidelines for individual and small group practices receiving Medicare reimbursement will likely require a range of operational changes. This is part 1 of a two-part article describing the guidelines' impact on small--and in some cases large--practices, and the ways to meet their requirements.
authors.affiliation: L. Wolper, Inc., 3 Ardsley Place, Great Neck, NY 11021, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wolper
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005607:Fraud / Q000517:prevention & control*; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006278:Medicare / Q000592:standards; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011216:Practice Management, Medical / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D012308:Risk Management; D014481:United States; D014483:United States Dept. of Health and Human Services