Why Not to Invest in Exclusion Screening Software
Plenty of healthcare organizations don’t use exclusion screening software.
Wondering why not? Here’s what they’ll tell you!
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It’s no big deal to do exclusion checks in-house.
Our office staff loves to re-screen every employee over multiple databases every month. Doesn’t everyone?
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We’re a small enterprise.
We only need to screen medical personnel, housekeeping, dietary, office staff… Plus all our vendors. No sweat.
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Our HR department can handle it.
Hey, between managing everyone’s schedules, PTO, complaints, etc., they’ve got nothing else to do.
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The OIG never catches anyone anyway.
The $10.5 million in fines issued last year was the result of a bunch of freak accidents.
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We don’t even understand what exclusion screening IS.
Therefore, the OIG won’t care if we don’t do it.
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We can’t afford it.
Which is why we’re also planning to get rid of our accountant and do our financials in-house. Professionals are so expensive nowadays!
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Nobody on our staff is excluded.
Even if the OIG excludes people for defaulting on education loans or letting a license lapse, our staff would NEVER do that.
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We already did criminal background checks.
As long as our staff members are not dangerous, that’s good enough for us.
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We’re too busy to think about exclusion screening.
If we ignore it long enough, it might go away.
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We can take the loss.
Worst comes to worst, a couple hundred thousand bucks in fines won’t hurt a company like ours, anyway.
