By Adam TurteltaubThere’s a lot new going on in healthcare enforcement, and, at the same, there’s a lot that hasn’t changed, reports Greg Demske (LinkedIn), partner at Goodwin Proctor and, formerly, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General at HHS.While the US Department of Justice has changed its priorities in areas such as anticorruption, if you loo…

By Adam TurteltaubI live in Los Angeles and was fortunate enough to get through the fires unscathed. Around me, though, were others who were not so fortunate. A cousin and several friends lost everything.After the fires came a cleanup of epic proportions. For Glenn Sweatt, Vice President at ECC, the company charged with remediation at all those bur…

By Adam TurteltaubHere’s a little nightmare every compliance officer dreads. You leave your current job for an exciting new one, only to find out that you just walked into a position where the compliance efforts are token at best because the organization’s leadership doesn’t take compliance seriously.In this podcast Mary Shirley, Vice President, Ch…

By Adam TurteltaubThere is so much hype and drama when it comes to AI, that it’s good to hear the voice of Mujo Vilasevic, Senior Compliance Officer, Raiffeisen Bank International. Contrary to most, he makes the case that the problem with AI is overdramatization. Despite the fears, it’s not going to take over the world or our jobs, as he sees it.So…

By Adam TurteltaubIt’s time to think bigger when it comes to helpline data. Yes, it’s still important to look at traditional metrics such as the number of calls and the substantiation rate. But, there is so much more that can be done.Justin Ross, Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer at Sysco and Carrie Penman, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer …

By Adam TurteltaubI recently learned that at the US Department of Justice’s law library, one of the most common requests the librarians receive is for vintage dictionaries. Why? Because the lawyers often need to find out what the definition of a word was at the time a law was passed.Meanings change over time in the law and in the vernacular. Rememb…

By Adam TurteltaubIf you’re looking for compliance direction only from the US Department of Justice, you’re missing the wider picture. There is a lot going on in Europe that companies operating in that geography need to be complying with.Dr. Tobias Kruis, Head of Corporate Compliance, Giesecke+Devrient, shares what is going on both in this podcast …

By Adam TurteltaubThere’s always a “but” when it comes to AI. It has great potential, but there’s always the risk of bad things happening.In the case of the False Claims Act and healthcare, that’s very much the case.In a recent article for Compliance Today – “AI and the False Claims Act: Navigating compliance in the age of automation” -- Phoebe Rot…

By Adam TurteltaubAs important as gaining access to the board is, using that time properly is even more crucial. Becky Rohr, Chief Compliance Officer and head of Investigations at Ericsson, will be sharing her insights and advice on this topic in her session “Board Reporting, Not Bored Reporting: Presenting to Boards and Other Senior Stakeholders b…

By Adam TurteltaubWhat you don’t know can hurt you. And what you do know can hurt you. Such is the dilemma of background screening. Companies want to know who they are hiring, but, explains Al Firato, CEO & Founder of HireSafe, some information is off limits.The 1964 Civil Rights Act and Title VII prohibit examinations of race, religion, ethnicity …

By Adam TurteltaubDr. Hemma R. Lomax, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Global Head of Ethics and Compliance for DocuSign thinks a lot about leaving a legacy, not just for herself but in general. She’ll be addressing the topic Beyond the Rules: The Future of Compliance is Legacy-Driven Leadership at the SCCE 24th Annual Compliance & Ethics…

By Adam TurteltaubJoint ventures are created to capitalize on a business opportunity, but they come with challenges. Each partner may have a different experience with or attitude towards compliance. They may have distinctly different cultures, and, in the worst case, may each be expecting the other to be watching compliance when, in fact, no one is…

By Adam TurteltaubDon’t take it personally if it’s taking you forever to find a new compliance job. According to Matt Kelly (LinkedIn), Editor and CEO at Radical Compliance, you’re far from alone.It’s not that there aren’t jobs out there, he explains. There is just a hesitancy to hire due to the macro-economic environment. With so much economic ins…

By Adam TurteltaubProfessors Todd Haugh (LinkedIn) and Suneal Bedi (LinkedIn) of the Institute for Corporate Governance & Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University recently published a paper: Retheorizing Corporate Compliance. In it they argued strongly that compliance needs to be seen not just as a defense against potential cor…

By Adam TurteltaubIn November 2024, the Office of Inspector General at Health and Human Services released its Nursing Facility: Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidance. The document is part of an effort to modernize how HHS OIG is communicating to industry and providing information about risks, how to mitigate them and best practices …

By Adam TurteltaubProfessors Guido Palazzo and Ulrich Hoffrage are skeptical. When they hear that there was a bad apple at the core of a scandal, they are hesitant to accept that explanation. Instead, they argue in this podcast and in their new book, The Dark Pattern: The Hidden Dynamics of Corporate Scandals, that the problem is typically much dee…

By Adam TurteltaubSo you’ve got a case of AI fever and want to put the technology to work for your compliance team. What should you do?Jordan Domash, Founder of Rersponsiv, urges you to first take a deep breath and think through the process starting with defining your goals. Interestingly, he shares, the goals can be affected by the solution you ch…

By Adam TurteltaubOn May 12, 2025 the head of the Criminal Division at the US Department of Justice issued a memo to all Criminal Division personnel with the subject: Focus, Fairness and Efficiency in the Fight Against White Collar Crime.To understand what the document means for compliance programs, we spoke with Amy Matsuo, leader for both Regulat…

By Adam TurteltaubAndres Cuevas, Compliance Director LATAM for EmergentCold explains from Chile that for compliance officers to be successful in Latin America they need to stop thinking about Latin America as a whole and start thinking much more about each country and its culture.And, of course, we must be mindful that each company also has a cultu…

By Adam TurteltaubMark Diamond wants you to stop thinking of records retention as a chore and start thinking of it as a driver of compliance. In this podcast the President & CEO of Contoural shares that retention schedules have grown in importance with increased requirements for privacy and safeguarding personal data. That, in turn, is having an en…

By Adam TurteltaubIn a recent issue of Compliance & Ethics Professional ®, Nick Gallo, Chief Servant and Co-CEO of Ethico addressed the control paradox, a situation in which the controls designed to prevent misconduct, actually encourage it. Think of it like the person whose car has so many airbags that they no longer fear an accident and drive qui…

By Adam TurteltaubRecently, Gartner released very intriguing research into third party risk. Chris Audet, Vice President and Chief of Research in the Gartner Assurance Practice tell us that they found business has it’s spending all wrong. Too much is invested in due diligence, and not enough time and effort is spent on monitoring.There research fou…

By Adam TurteltaubRisk assessments are not new in healthcare, and in specific regulatory areas are required. But, that doesn’t mean things aren’t changing. More and more organizations are embracing enterprise risk assessments (ERM) as a way to assess the range of risks that they face, including legal and regulatory concerns.Getting the risk assessm…

By Adam TurteltaubAs if ransomware and phishing attacks weren’t enough to keep us up at night, now AI is enabling a whole new range of cyber threats.Ryan Redman, Product Manager, Marketing and Brett Sommers, Director of GRC Products at Onspring warn that the nature of attacks is evolving. Vishing, in which criminals use technology to imitate the vo…

By Adam TurteltaubThese are fractious times, and it’s often difficult to figure out what to do, what comes next and keep people with divergent views working together.Despite these challenges, Anna Romberg, Executive Vice President, Sustainability, Legal and Compliance for Getinge, doesn’t believe that things are hopeless. In an article she co-autho…

By Adam TurteltaubDo you ever wish you were made of rubber, especially nowadays with so much change? Do you wish that you could be flexible enough to handle every new legal regulatory change or every business demand without breaking?It’s not likely to happen, but compliance industry veteran Lisa Beth Lentini Walker believes that we can become more …

By Adam TurteltaubUzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan were all born out of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. With large energy deposits of national gas, many global companies and their suppliers are operating within these countries.To better understand the compliance risks there, we spoke with Timur Khasanov-Batirov, …

By Adam TurteltaubIt’s not a good time to be a manufacturer of ten-foot poles. That’s because with the growing number of sanctions regimes, there are an increasing number of companies and individuals that businesses shouldn’t touch with a poll of ten feet, or any length for that matter.Rachel Gerstein, who most recently served as Vice President, Gl…

By Adam TurteltaubThe current fee-for-services model in healthcare has challenges, to say the least. Value-based care, explains, Colleen Gianatasio, Vice President of Compliance, CoventBridge, takes a different approach by asking four questions: What are the needs for both patients and providers? What are the challenges and barriers to meeting them…

By Adam TurteltaubRecently Protiviti released an intriguing report: Top Compliance Priorities for U.S. Healthcare Organizations in 2025. In this podcast their Global Healthcare Compliance Leader, Leyla Erkan, shares some of the key priorities they revealed: Managing technology. This includes wearable devices, AI, telehealth platforms and more. All …

By Adam TurteltaubHow much is your cybersecurity program worth? Traditionally the thinking has kind of been: if we don’t have a breach it’s expensive but valuable, and if we do have one it’s both expensive and worthless.Eric Shoemaker of Genius GRC advocates for a different way to value cybersecurity efforts. Instead of just looking at what it prev…

By Adam TurteltaubVirginia MacSuibhne is not your typical compliance officer. It’s not surprising then that this former global chief compliance at Agilent and Roche, who also has an Etsy shop selling irreverent, NSFW compliance merch, decided she wanted to do an atypical podcast.Rather than focusing on a brilliant idea she had or a huge success, sh…

By Adam TurteltaubA good, juicy case study is great for compliance training. An artfully created scenario can also be remarkably effective, especially for ethics training.What makes them so appealing, and how do you use them best? Colin May, Adjunct Professor at Stevenson University, explains that problem-based learning is very effective for adults…

By Adam TurteltaubThere’s a lot of discussion about the relationship between compliance and the general counsel. Less words, though, have been dedicated to the important relationship between compliance and HR.Netherlands-based Asaf Shalev, Global Ethics, Risk & Compliance Lead for DLL rightly observes that maximizing synergy between the work of HR …

By Adam TurteltaubStress can be a good thing. Burnout, though, is something altogether different and very real for compliance professionals.Sarah Hadden (LinkedIn), CEO and Publisher of Corporate Compliance Insights shares in this podcast the not always encouraging data on stress and burnout from their 2025 Compliance Officer Working Conditions, St…

By Adam TurteltaubThere is a tendency to think of risk assessment as one thing and demonstrating the value of the compliance program as another. In this podcast, Catherine Bruno, Assistant Director Office of Integrity and Compliance (OIC) at the FBI shows that the risk assessment process can also be a great way to demonstrate the value of a strong …

By Adam TurteltaubThe words “works council” inspires fear and dread in the hearts and minds of many who have never worked with them. They need not, says Lisanne Winde, attorney at law at Wybenga advocaten and Alain Lambert, regional ethics and compliance officer for Central Europe at WSP.In this podcast, they share how the works council can actuall…

By Adam TurteltaubAn audit by a Unified Program Integrity Contractor auditor, better known as a UPIC audit, can be a very scary thing. Providers are often shocked and even indignant to receive a letter notifying them of the audit and alleging fraud.Jon Rawlson (LinkedIn), President & Founder of Armory Hill Advocates, reminds us that the audit was l…

By Adam TurteltaubAs the sun set, the chief compliance officer stared out the window, wondering how she would communicate with her workforce in a way that they would understand. As much as she looked, the answer wasn’t outside in the skies turning from blue to black. She wasn’t finding it under the white LEDs in the ceiling above her desk, either.F…

By Adam TurteltaubIn addition to releasing its General Compliance Program Guidance, the OIG at HHS announced plans to publish a series of Industry Segment-Specific Compliance Program Guidances (ICPG). The first of these, addressing nursing facilities, was released in November 2024.As CJ Wolf, Professor in healthcare Administration at BYU Idaho expl…

By Adam TurteltaubSevda Huseynova is the Ethics and Compliance Officer for SOCAR Midstream, a state-owned enterprise (SOE) in Azerbaijan. The company manages the oil and gas export pipelines of the country.If you think working for an SOE means you don’t have to worry about compliance, she warns you to think again. SOEs still faces risk in a wide ra…

By Adam TurteltaubKISS takes on a new meaning in this podcast: Keep it Streamlined & Strategic.Keeping it streamlined and strategic is also the topic of a session at the 2025 HCCA Compliance Institute that will be led by Krista Muszak, Senior Manager, Process Optimization at Pfizer and Angela Smart, Senior Compliance and Ethics Partner, Intermounta…

By Adam TurteltaubBusiness people are given all kinds of goals for revenues, profitability, efficiency and more. For compliance, though, not so often. Many organizations struggle with how to set compliance goals, or even if they should set them.Madrid-based, Juan Ignacio Paillás, Head of Global Compliance Business Sectors for Merck KGaA, Darmstadt,…

By Adam TurteltaubHealthcare is often rife with fraud, and organizations struggle to prevent it. To gain a different perspective on how to prevent wrongdoing, we spoke with Alec Burlakoff, a convicted fraudster from Insys Pharmaceuticals who now leads Limitless! Consulting.To prevent fraud, he recommends seriously looking at the incentives program …

By Adam TurteltaubAre your helpline calls being responded to properly? Are the investigations proceeding expeditiously and properly? To find out, it’s good to do an audit periodically.Before you can begin, though, you need to determine if there is enough available data for an audit, cautions Juliette Gust, President of Ethics Suite, and author of t…

By Adam TurteltaubThink you don’t have to worry about the SEC because you’re at a private company or a non-profit? Think again says, Kevin Muhlendorf, attorney at Wiley Rein. You may still end up in the Commission’s crosshairs.He warns that the SEC’s power of investigations expands far and wide, and just being a supplier to a publicly-traded compan…

By Adam TurteltaubBusiness transformations can be times both of risk and opportunity for compliance programs. Employees, struggling to understand the changes around them and feeling stressed, may opt to do the wrong or at least ill-advised things. By the same token, transformations provide an opportunity for compliance teams to change their roles w…

By Adam TurteltaubOh, Artificial Intelligence. So much promise, and so much risk. What’s a compliance and ethics professional to do? Start by listening to this podcast about the chapter “Managing the Ethics and Compliance Risks of Artificial Intelligence” in the 2025 edition of The Complete Compliance & Ethics Manual.We spoke with the article’s co-…

By Adam TurteltaubSometimes you make a few technical changes to a compliance program because a law or regulation has changed. Autoliv didn’t want to do that and just meet technical requirement of the EU Whistleblower Directive. They wanted to use it as an opportunity to assess what they were doing to encourage employee reporting, whether it was wor…

By Adam TurteltaubSo the IT folk can’t wait for your business people to delete those old documents, meantime, the business people want to hold onto them because they never know when they might need that info again. Then, all of a sudden there’s a legal issue and a hold is in place. Instantly the game changes.Chris Kruse, Executive Vice President & …