The Council of Ethical Organizations is conducting a series of surveys of compliance practices for The Pastin Report on Health Care Compliance and the Healthcare Best Compliance Practices process. Your help will be appreciated.

Periodically we ask questions regarding compliance program activities such as employee training, physician training, background checks, hotline practices, etc. We will publish the results on our web site http://www.corporateethics.com and in subsequent issues of The Pastin Report. Results will also be separately posted to all Talk About Compliance subscribers.


This month the Council is seeking to update Best Practices Facts on:

The Compliance Program Cost Survey

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1. What type of organization do you work for?

Answer question #1a only if you selected "Hospital" in question #1 and are a single facility

1a. How many beds does your hospital have?

2. How many locations does your organization have?

3. How many total employees does your organization have? (Please enter your response below.)

4. Does your organization have a corporate compliance office/function?

5. How many years has the compliance program been in existence? (Please enter your response below.)

6. How many persons are employed on the compliance staff? (Please enter your response below.)

7. Does the compliance function have its own budget or is it incorporated in some other department's budget? (Please enter your response below.)

8. Do you, the compliance officer, propose your own annual compliance budget?

9. Do you have the ability to seek/obtain additional financial or other resources during the year if you believe such additional resources are necessary?

10. Do you believe the budgeted amount for the current annual or fiscal year (as appropriate) is sufficient?

Answer question #11 only if you answered "Yes" in question #10

11. Do you believe sufficient resources will continue to be allocated in the next annual/fiscal year?

12. Estimate your annual compliance budget.

13. Is your compliance program budget broken down by functions; if so, does it include any of the following components?

a. Compliance staff salaries, benefits and overhead?

b. Training and education?

c. Compliance auditing and investigations?

d. Internal reporting mechanisms and hotline operations?

e. Employee screening for ineligible persons and background checks?

f. Compliance program assessments and risk assessments?

14. Estimate the annual budget for each of the compliance functions that has an individually identifiable annual budget amount?

a. Compliance office staff salaries, benefits and overhead?

b. Training and education?

c. Compliance auditing and investigations (internal and external costs)?

d. Internal reporting mechanisms and/or hotline operations?

e. Employee screening for ineligible persons and background checks?

f. Compliance program assessments and risk assessments (internal and external costs)?

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