Archives for year 2008
March/April 2008 Employment Law Briefing
March, 2008
A glance of topics covered in this issue:
- Is obesity a disabling impairment under the ADA?
- Definitions key in determining FMLA eligibility
- Internal affairs: Don't leave your business open to disparate-treatment changes
- Harassers needn't know victim's actual national origin
- Involving the police held to be protected conduct
Implementing Voluntary Compliance Programs
February, 2008
Physicians should develop and maintain a voluntary compliance program to minimize the potential for erroneous or fraudulent conduct under federal health care requirements. The Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”), in the Department of Health and Human Services, issued a Compliance Program Guidance (“CPG”) for Individual and Small Group Physician Practices that, in essence, contains seven components that provide a solid basis upon which an individual or small physician practice group can create a program to prevent submission of erroneous claims and fraudulent conduct.
