Corporate Responsibility and Corporate Compliance: A Resource for Health Care Boards of Directors (4/2003)
This educational resource is designed to help health care organization directors ask knowledgeable and appropriate questions related to health care corporate compliance. These questions are not intended to set forth any specific standard of care. Rather, this resource will help corporate directors to establish, and affirmatively demonstrate, that they have followed a reasonable compliance oversight process.
An Integrated Approach to Corporate Compliance: A Resource for Health Care Boards of Directors (7/2004)
This document addresses the roles of the in-house corporate general counsel (“General Counsel”) and an organization’s Chief Compliance Officer in supporting the compliance oversight function of health care organization governing boards (“Boards of Directors” or “Boards”). This supplemental educational resource addresses issues raised by recent developments in the law with respect to corporate responsibility and lawyers’ professional ethics, the modifications to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (“Sentencing Guidelines”), and the recommendations of the American Bar Association Task Force on Corporate Responsibility (“ABA Task Force”). It addresses these issues in the unique context of health care compliance and health care law, particularly in light of the expressed view of the OIG regarding the risk of structuring an organization’s compliance function as subordinate to the General Counsel function.
Corporate Responsibility and Health Care Quality – A Resource for Health Care Boards of Directors (9/2007)
The guide will provide insight into the OIG’s priorities and practical tools for healthcare organization boards to carry out their fiduciary responsibilities.
