A1. Necessary components of the plan:1. Ensure policies and procedures are written: Expectations must be set and communicated to staff and business associates so that everyone knows and understands what is expected of them. Must clearly communicate policies and prevent illegal activities.2. Establish a compliance officer and compliance committee: The compliance officer should be a senior executive within the organization. This person must be able and in an authoritative position to implement and enforce compliance program policies and procedures.3. Do not knowingly delegate authority to people who may have a lease to take part in illegal activities: ensure criminal background checks are carried out on all staff.4. Communicate standards and procedures to each staff member: Policies and procedures must be distributed and made available to staff – ensure there is language that says all staff have a duty and responsibility to incorporate their own compliance standards in your daily work.5. Monitor and audit your plan to ensure compliance: Honest behaviors and actions must be reinforced by ensuring checks and balances are in place. Internal and external audits should be conducted at regular intervals. Staff must also have easy access to report concerns or violations.6. Ensure disciplinary actions occur for violations of your policies and procedures: Adherence to compliance policies and procedures is of the utmost importance to your facility. Ensuring that policy violations are addressed with appropriate disciplinary action will ensure standards are met.7. If necessary, modify the program to continue to detect and prevent violations of the law: this is especially important… middle of paper… the best programmers around and we want to keep it that way! The early introduction of ICD-10 coding will ensure that we are all ready for go-live in October 2014.C3. Updating the Training Program The training program should be reviewed and evaluated as organizational and industry policies, procedures and practices change. Training material should always be current and relevant to current events in the industry. At a minimum, the training program material shall be reviewed annually by the Coding Compliance Officer and the Coding Compliance Committee. Additionally, asking training session participants to take short surveys of training program materials can help provide information and guidance on how to develop current and future materials to maintain relevance and interest of staff.D. SourcesNo in-text citations used in this article. Everything is in my words.