This customizable document, Management and Oversight of Contracted Services, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Home Care Corporate Compliance Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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Here is some sample content from Management and Oversight of Contracted Services:

	POLICY: This organization has internal mechanisms in place to ensure that contracted personnel provide only the items and services that are medically necessary based on the patient's documented clinical status and are ordered by the treating physician or other authorized individual. The organization reserves the right to terminate any contract wherein improprieties are discovered in the items or services provided, or in the documentation submitted. PROCEDURE: All individuals and agents are provided a copy of the referral and physician's orders. Services shall be initiated no later than...
Second excerpt:
	...shall adhere to the treating physician's or other authorized individual's orders. Supervisory visits are conducted by the organization's supervisory personnel at least every fourteen 14 days to ensure that the Plan of Care is being followed, and to ensure that the services being provided continue to be medically reasonable and necessary. Contractors shall submit the required documentation of services provided according to the time frames outlined in the signed...