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CONTACT: Debbie Frost, Murer Consultants (815) 727-3355
NEW BOOK SHOWS NEED FOR CORPORATE COMPLIANCE PROGRAM
The press is hot by McGraw Hill, who contracted to publish Murer Consultants third book to be released spring, 1998. Compliance Programs for Healthcare, a book written by three executives from Murer Consultants, Inc., Joliet, Illinois, provides a detailed explanation of compliance programs for healthcare.
Compliance Programs for Healthcare, written by Cherilyn G. Murer, Michael A. Murer, and Lyndean Lenhoff Brick introduces the concept of compliance programs, examines the principals of corporate criminal liability, includes benefits and risks involved in establishing a compliance program, and provide rules and regulations commonly encountered in healthcare practice, including Safe Harbor exemptions. Furthermore, the book explains a pre plan audit, the minimum requirements, desired elements, implementation, and operation of a compliance plan, and the correct way to respond to a critical situation that may arise.

Audits, compliance programs, fines, FBI subpoenas and criminal indictments are such a shock to the healing oriented health community that they have no procedures in place until crisis looms. Compliance Programs for Healthcare shows the necessity of implementing an effective compliance program.

Compliance Programs for Healthcare is the third book to be published by McGraw Hill by Murer Consultants authors in the last twelve months.

The first book, The Case Management Sourcebook, released June 1997, is a comprehensive guide to understanding, developing, and implementing healthcare case management. Murer Consultants second book, The Post Acute Reimbursement Manual, released October 1997, is the healthcare executive’s hands-on reference to reimbursement and legislation for specific venues of care. It also highlights the Balance Budget Act changes in its March 1998 supplement.

Cherilyn G. Murer, who earned her law degree from Northwestern Illinois University, is president and CEO of Murer Consultants, Inc., a legal-based healthcare management consulting firm in Joliet, Illinois. Ms. Murer was the director of Rehabilitation Medicine at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Illinois.

Ms. Murer currently serves on the editorial advisory boards of Aspen Publishers, CurAnt Communications and Stevens Publishing Corporation. Ms. Murer has been a columnist for Rehab Management Magazine for the past five years.

Michael A. Murer, J.D., Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Murer Consultants Inc. has been a practicing attorney for over twenty years. In addition to his extensive trial practice and community service work, he has been active in issues related to healthcare law including corporate organization, contract negotiations and the structuring of joint ventures.

Mr. Murer received his Juris Doctorate degree from Georgetown University Law Center and earned his Bachelor of Science degree at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Lyndean Brick, a graduate of the Ohio State University School of Law, is a recognized expert in the field of healthcare law and serves as Senior Vice President of the company. She has gained a national reputation for her work with the interpretation and application of Medicare rules and regulations.

Additionally, Ms. Brick consults in the areas of strategic and long range planning for healthcare providers and regularly advises clients in the assessment and development of joint venture opportunities in the healthcare industry, as well as the feasibility of development of alternative sites of care such as CORFs and subacute care facilities. Brick, who has served as the contract administrative director of a national system of healthcare facilities, is widely published in journals covering the international healthcare industry.

Murer Consultants, Inc. represents more than 600 hospitals in 42 states, Canada, and Europe. They include some of the nations largest for-profit as well as not-for-profit healthcare chains.

Murer Consultants, Inc. is located at 58 North Chicago Street, Joliet, Illinois and can be reached at (815) 727-3355 or viewed on our Web site.

Information on Compliance Programs for Healthcare, The Case Management Sourcebook, and The Post Acute Reimbursement Manual can be obtained by contacting Murer Consultants, Inc. (815) 727-3355.