Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Compliance and Ethics Program, Using CMS's Requirements of Participation

Joseph Zielinski, Compliance and Privacy Officer, CarDon & Associates, and Michelle R. Adams, Associate General Counsel, Ensign Services, discuss how to measure a long-term care facility’s compliance and ethics program. They cover why compliance is so important in the context of long-term care facilities, existing compliance and ethics frameworks, CMS’ Requirements of Participation, recent cases that highlight the importance of compliance effectiveness, and how to measure and utilize data to demonstrate compliance effectiveness. Joseph and Michelle spoke about this topic at AHLA’s 2024 Long Term and Post-Acute Care Law and Compliance in San Diego, CA. From AHLA's Post-Acute and Long Term Services Practice Group.Essential Legal Updates, Now in AudioAHLA's popular Health Law Daily email newsletter is now a daily podcast, exclusively for AHLA Comprehensive members. Get all your health law news from the major media outlets on this podcast! To subscribe and add this private podcast feed to your podcast app, go to americanhealthlaw.org/dailypodcast.Stay At the Forefront of Health Legal EducationLearn more about AHLA and the educational resources available to the health law community at https://www.americanhealthlaw.org/.