Acronym Soup
This acronym is often mispelled to include a P and stands for the health and privacy law everyone loves to hate.
What is HIPAA?
Examples of these include: leaving private information containing individuals private information out, leaving a key in a lockable file drawer, having an unlocked computer screen displayed and unattended.
What are Privacy Infractions?
Auditors and QI teams often find at least one of these expired in the program during a visit to a program.
What is milk or food?
The General Duty Clause belongs to this agency.
What is OSHA?
The "I" that is in our Mission Statement/Core Values.
What is "Integrity"?
OSHA stands for this...
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
What is 'Nobody told me'?
This assessment is conducted annually by the Compliance Team to identify potential threats to the organization.
What is a Risk Assessment?
DHS 245D governs these types of Minnesota programs.
What are community residential services (CRS) and HCBS providers?
HIPAA violations can lead to fines from this department.
What is the HHS/Office for Civil Rights?
This three letter acronym refers to the responsibility of operations following a citation/IJ
What is CAP?
Policies and some required postings in programs must always include this information to show they're current.
What is a revision date/version control?
This was used to 'lock' a cabinet containing personal and private information of ICs and Employees in a program and discovered during an audit.
What is a rubber band/hair tie?
There are THIS many elements to an effective compliance program.
What is 7?
Staff #1 favorite excuse for missing documentation or requirements.
What is 'We have always done it this way'?
This acryonym refers to Medicaids home-based service model.
What is HCBS (Home and Community Based Services)?
A program/binder required to be at every home/program/office that contains critical emergency and safety information. (Often printed upon our request)
What is the SAFE Program?
Employees should do his or her part to [blank] any suspicious activity, suspected fraud or abuse.
What is report?
The false claims act is enforced by THIS federal agency.
What is the DOJ?
This fun phrase describes the hunting and gathering of resources, documents, regulations or other necessary items to locate information related to the audit.
What is Scavenger Hunters?
CMS is the federal agency that oversees this program (name both).
What are Medicare and Medicaid?
This required OSHA plan protects staff from communicable diseases like TB.
What is an Exposure Control Plan?
This common excuse translates to 'We didn't know' or 'We never checked'
What is 'That doesn't apply to us'?
The OIG operates under this US department.
What is the Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS)?
Embracing a Culture of Compliance, Compliance Laws You Need to Know, Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, and HIPAA Training are covered during this annual event.
What is annual compliance training?