It’s A Brave New World or Is It? – CIAs and Their Ability to Create Change

By Thomas Sullivan Last updated May 5, 2018

Corporate Integrity Agreement (CIAs) are a tool commonly employed by the HHS OIG to resolve healthcare fraud issues. This article explores the issue of whether CIAs really strengthen company compliance programs. This author is not so sure

Corporate Integrity Agreements (CIAs) are arguably the preferred tool used by the federal and state governments since 2001 to resolve healthcare fraud issues. According to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), CIAs strengthen compliance programs and promote compliance so that future issues can be prevented or identified, reported and corrected. But do they? How can a company have integrity without a strong ethics backbone?