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Your Staffers Will Be Less Likely to Whistle If You Follow These Tips

Published on Mon Apr 09, 2012

A robust reporting mechanism is your best defense against a whistleblower suit. If your compliance plan isn't airtight, your coders, billers, and other support staff members could be a qui tam (whistleblower) lawsuit waiting to happen. Being the target of a whistleblower lawsuit could cost you dearly, and even close your doors forever. Follow this expert advice to head off an expensive and exhausting qui tam filing. 1. Establish a compliance plan. If you don't have a comprehensive compliance plan in place yet, get one ASAP, legal experts urge. If you have one that's been gathering dust on the shelves, make re-implementing it a top priority. "This is your chance to keep yourself from being harmed in a whistleblower suit," says attorney Robert Markette, Jr. with Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff in Indianapolis. The only thing worse that not having a plan at all is having one and not following [...]
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