{"ref":"GA-HSP-ETH-01","title":"Compliance Program, Marketing and Prohibited Inducements","category":"Ethics","summary":"Sets the Agency’s compliance program: the Georgia ban on staff and their families steering patients into naming them in wills, trusts or insurance, taking out insurance on patients, or giving or lending things of value; factual, non-coercive advertising; fraud and abuse laws; referral and marketing integrity; and how concerns are reported and investigated without retaliation.","inShort":["Never accept money, loans or valuable gifts from patients or families. Politely say no and tell your supervisor.","Never encourage anyone to name you or a colleague in a will, trust or insurance policy.","Our advertising must be factual. Never pressure anyone to choose our hospice.","Never offer or accept anything of value in return for referrals.","Report any compliance concern to the Administrator. You will not be punished for reporting in good faith."],"primaryCitation":"Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.07(4)","citations":["Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.07(4)","Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.07(5)(h)","Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.04(2)","O.C.G.A. §49-4-168 et seq."],"federalCitations":["42 U.S.C. §1320a-7b(b)","42 CFR §1001.952","42 U.S.C. §1395nn","31 U.S.C. §3729","42 U.S.C. §1320a-7"],"surveyorAsks":["How do you make sure no staff member or family member of staff is named in a patient’s will or receives gifts or loans from a patient?","Show me your recent advertising. Who checks that it is factual and not misleading?"],"forms":[{"ref":"GA-HSP-ETH-01-A","title":"Annual Compliance and Conflict of Interest Attestation"}],"headings":["Terms of Reference","1. Purpose","2. Scope","3. Definitions","4. Policy Statement (Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 111-8-37-.07(4))","5. Dealings With Patients and Families","6. Advertising and Marketing","7. Relationships With Referral Sources","8. Fraud and Abuse Laws","9. The Compliance Program","10. No Retaliation","11. Responsibilities","12. Records and Compliance Monitoring","13. Staff Training","14. References","15. Related Policies and Forms","16. Approval","17. Revision History"],"version":"1.0","sample":false,"pack":"ga-hospice","state":"Georgia","service":"Hospice","guides":[{"path":"/guides/hospice-policies/","h1":"What policies are required for hospice?"},{"path":"/guides/hospice-conditions-of-participation/","h1":"Hospice Conditions of Participation: which policies each one needs"}],"agency":{"name":"Sample Agency","legalName":"Sample Agency, LLC","logo":null}}