tci Part B Insider - 2005 Issue 15

Compliance: Keep The Whistle From Your Workers' Lips With These 10 Tips

Think whistleblowers all work at healthcare giants? Think again. Your coders, billers and other support staff could be a qui tam (whistleblower) lawsuit waiting to happen, say experts. "When I was a federal prosecutor, our best source of information was disgruntled employees," says attorney Nicholas Harbist with Blank Rome in Philadelphia. He and other attorneys offer the following tips:1. Pay attention to your employees' concerns about documentation and other issues. Otherwise, "you're creating someone who sees themselves not as your advocate but as the opposite side," says Wayne Miller with the Compliance Law Group in Woodland Hills...

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