How effective are the controls in your medical practice?
Submit the form below to recieve an evaluation on your practice's controls.

1.	Do you know the typical daily, weekly or monthly volume of your charges and collections and do you promptly investigate any material deviations?	Yes   No
2.	Are charge slips, cash receipt slips and checks prenumbered, controlled, and accounted for (including voids), are blank documents stored safely, and is access limited?	Yes   No
3.	Have you separated the responsibilities for opening the mail, posting payments and balancing your daily deposit among 3 or more people?	Yes   No
4.	Are your accounting records, including charge posting, cash posting, payroll reports and checkbook kept up to date and balanced daily and monthly?	Yes   No
5.	Do you restrict check signature authority to senior personnel or physicians only, insist on personal signature instead of a signature stamp, and inspect back up invoices before signing checks?	Yes   No
6.	Are all checks stamped "For Deposit Only to Account # ____________" immediately upon receipt and are undeposited checks stored in a safe place pending deposit?	Yes   No
7.	Are all employees required to take annual vacations and do other employees cover in their absence?	Yes   No
8.	Are all adjustments, patient refunds and write-offs approved or monitored by an authorized supervisor?	Yes   No
9.	Do you check the references of new hires carefully and screen candidates and current employees regularly for exclusion from or sanctions by Medicare and other federal programs?	Yes   No
10.	Do you use the "sentinel" effect, occasionally sampling entries, reviewing the general ledger, inspecting reconciliations, checking the cash drawer and asking questions?	Yes   No