Spring Cleaning: Why Now Is The Perfect Time To Assess Your Compliance Program

Spring is a time for renewal. Cleaning out your home, refreshing your life and at work, reassessing your compliance program to ensure that it is operating effectively and efficiently. As federal and state governments continue to escalate enforcement across the board, now is the perfect time. It seems that we are emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic to a changed landscape for compliance programs– that have gone by the wayside, have fewer headcounts, less budget, or worse, all three.

The Office of Inspector General has published a new, interactive General Compliance Program Guidance (GCPG)¹, including updates to the original documents that were published years ago.² The expectation is that the government will follow this up with additional industry segment-specific compliance program guidance (ICPG) in the upcoming months. We anticipate that they will update ICPGs for each sector that is currently out there and add more.