General Compliance & Privacy
This document sets Dana-Farber's compliance and ethical expectations of its Workforce Members.
What is the Code of Conduct?
This department answers documentation, coding, and billing questions.
What is Billing Compliance?
This federal agency enforces controlled substance regulations in hospitals and other healthcare settings.
About 7 million of these malicious communications are blocked at the firewall every day.
What are phishing emails?
Financial interests related to a researcher's institutional responsibilities must be disclosed to this office.
What is the Office of Research Integrity and Compliance?
Patient information should never be discussed in these places.
This concept means the documentation in the medical record must support the level of service, diagnosis, and procedure billed.
What is medical necessity?
This hospital process helps ensure a patient's home medications are reviewed and compared during admission, transfer, and discharge.
What is medication reconciliation?
This computer accessory helps protect privacy for users working in high-traffic areas.
What is a privacy screen?
This Dana-Farber committee reviews research involving human data, specimens, or interaction with people.
What is the Institutional Review Board?
Punishing someone for reporting a compliance concern in good faith is this prohibited action.
What is retaliation?
This Federal Government agency operates under the philosophy, "if you did get paid, it doesn't mean you get to keep it" and "if you did get paid, be prepared to give it back!"
What is Medicare?
When a medication recall affects hospital stock, pharmacy staff should take this first step.
What is pulling the affected medication from use?
This privacy principle means you may access, use, or disclose a patient's PHI only when it is required for your job duties.
What is need-to-know access?
For federal funding applications, researchers cannot reuse an older NIH Biosketch, even if the content is still accurate, because they must use this instead.
What is the new template?
These three categories allow most PHI to be disclosed without patient authorization.
What are Treatment, Payment, and Operations?
This diagnosis code set includes more than 74,000 active codes and provides a detailed specificity for reporting diagnoses.
What is ICD-10-CM?
Staff members seeking confidential support for substance use, pain, stress, or other personal health concerns can contact this resource.
What is the KGA Employee Assistance Program?
Before travel to high-risk areas on behalf of DFCI, staff should contact the Service Desk to reserve these.
What are loaner devices?
NIH and other federal agencies adopted these to standardize disclosure requirements and processes across agencies and better protect federally funded US research.
What are the Common Forms for Biological Sketch and Other Support?
DFCI Workforce Members should take this action immediately when incidents of compromised PHI are suspected.
What is call the Compliance Hotline?
This code set is used to report patient services such as E&M visits, laboratory services, and procedures.
What is CPT?
Staff members can report compliance concerns, safety issues, or suspicious activity through this resource.
What is the Compliance Hotline?
This individual, who has worked for DFCI for over 20 years, currently serves as Information Security Officer.
Who is Mark Tomilson?
Under the revised NIH Public Access Policy, NIH-funded manuscripts must be made publicly available in PubMed Central at this time.
What is immediately upon publication?