Compliance plans within the organizational context of physician practices. What may need to change?

The Office of the Inspector General's (OIG's) compliance guidelines for individual and small group practices will require a range of operational changes. This is part 2 of a two-part article describing the guidelines' impact on small--and in some cases large--practices, and the ways to meet their requirements. Part 1 appeared in the September/October 2000 issue of MGM Journal. The author presented questions that practices can use to assess the extent of operational and organizational changes necessary to integrate a compliance program. This second part addresses operational changes that may be necessary.