The increasing emphasis on quality as a basis for fraud and abuse enforcement is now clear. Yet many compliance officers are not integrated into the quality activities of the organizations they serve. In her viewpoint on “
Doing What Really Matters: The Compliance Connection to Quality” in the Journal of Health Care Compliance, Alice presents three activities through which compliance officers can work more effectively on quality issues in addition to the fundamental challenge of raising the consciousness of the board and administration of any healthcare entity to these new quality mandates.