2026 Healthcare Compliance Benchmark Report Results

For the seventeenth year in a row, SAI360 partnered with Strategic Management Services to study the state of healthcare compliance programs in an industry benchmark survey of programs in the United States.

This annual report was designed to gain an understanding of issues confronting compliance programs and how compliance officers and organizations were responding to them.

In this webinar, former HHS Inspector General, Richard Kusserow, CEO of Strategic Management Services, reported on the results and provided analysis of the data from the survey, including important trending and cumulative data from prior years.

Specific areas addressed included:

• Budget expectations and staffing level changes
• Priorities for the operation of the compliance office, including work plan priorities for high-risk areas, methods for evidencing program effectiveness, and accretion of added duties and responsibilities
• Organizational risk methodology practices
• Addressing HIPAA Privacy and Security
• And many more topics