Protect Your Healthcare Facility from Costly Fines!

In order to maintain compliance with federal regulations, healthcare organizations must ensure that all employees and vendors remain in compliance with those regulations. Typically, this is accomplished through accurate sanction checks screenings, which help healthcare organizations to identify if there are any individuals who have been sanctioned or banned by the government (exclusion lists maintained by government authorities). Sanction screenings usually consist of conducting regular comparisons of healthcare organizations’ employees and vendors against federal and state sanctioned lists.

Providers are expected to remain current with their sanction checks and maintain accurate documentation of the checks performed every month. In the event of any concerns discovered during a check, providers should have an internal process in place for reviewing the recorded records and removing or reinstating the individuals from their vendor or employee list. Organizations with a well-defined process for performing checks will have an established routine for verifying their vendors and employees, as well as an organized method for tracking their files. Therefore, these organizations will be able to produce accurate reports and provide better oversight for their ongoing compliance obligations due to having a solid process.