Quality Control and Assurance

Risk Assessment and Management. Identify and assess the potential impacts of events on organizational objectives. Focus areas include:

• Business unit and enterprise risk assessment.
• Business unit and enterprise risk planning.
• Risk management framework integration.
• Risk monitoring and reporting.

Quality Control and Compliance. Make sure your organization is operating within its agreed-upon standards of practice, regulation, legislation, and/or objectives. Focus areas include:

• Internal control evaluations.
• Internal control improvement plans.
• State and federal compliance reviews.
• State and federal legislative analyses.

Quality Assurance and Improvement. Measure your organization’s performance against standards and implement continuous improvements within processes and systems. Focus areas include:

• Access to enhanced federal funding.
• Admission and discharge reviews.
• Beneficiary complaint reviews.
• Clinical quality improvement.
• Data quality improvement.
• Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) reviews.
• General quality of care reviews.
• Medical necessity reviews.
• Performance improvement.
• Technical Assistance.

Independent Verification and Validation. Evaluate a system or component to determine whether the products satisfy specified requirements for the end of a phase or process. Focus areas include:

• Comprehensive system evaluation and testing.
• Project artifacts review and validation.
• System evaluation criteria development.