Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Insights paper April 19, 2024 Key Medical Coding Audit Topics Compliance Auditors Should Consider The average cost to rework a claim or appeal a denial is approximately $118 per claim for hospitals and $25 per claim for physician practices. Failing to document, code and submit clean claims properly can impact your organization’s bottom line via lost revenue due to denials and/or added labor costs to rework or appeal claims that could have been submitted correctly and paid on receipt. As… Newsletter November 29, 2023 Setting the 2024 Audit Committee Agenda Compared to prior years, our suggested 2024 audit committee agenda has taken a bit of a turn due to ongoing and recent market and regulatory developments. A complex business environment: The 2024 audit committee agenda includes important enterprise, governance, process, technology, and financial reporting and disclosure issues that merit consideration by the audit committee beyond its… Newsletter December 1, 2024 Setting the 2025 Audit Committee Agenda The next 12 months are likely to be another challenging year for audit committees. The 9 topics we have highlighted for 2025 may include some areas audit committees would consider beyond the official scope of responsibility as outlined in their respective charters. Whitepaper September 19, 2022 2022 IT Audit Technology Risks in Tech, Media & Telecom Survey Shows Elevated Concerns Around Cybersecurity, Privacy and Compliance for the Technology, Media and Telecom Industry For the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) industry, the greatest IT audit concerns in 2022 lie with cybersecurity-related breaches, privacy and regulatory compliance. More than 1,000 IT audit leaders and professionals from the TMT industry provided this… Newsletter March 25, 2020 Going Digital: The Future Auditor in Action For several years, Protiviti has described the “future auditor” as a chief audit executive (CAE) who takes definitive steps toward making The Institute of Internal Auditors’ vision of “an independent, objective assurance and consulting activity that adds value and improves an organization’s operations” a reality. Several issues of The Bulletin have been devoted to describing various… Infographic September 1, 2021 Infographic: IT Audit Tech Risks in the Tech, Media & Telecom Industries Cybersecurity, privacy, data and resilience dominate the top technology challenges for technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) organizations, according to the annual ISACA/Protiviti Global Survey of IT audit leaders and professionals. These issues, which already were top-of-mind risks for most organizations, have been fueled further by pandemic-driven times of remote work… Survey February 21, 2024 2024 Top Risks for Chief Audit Executives CAEs see a riskier near- and long-term environment than do most of their colleagues in the executive suite. Of all C-level respondents to our latest Top Risks Survey, internal audit leaders ascribe the highest-magnitude ratings to risks they expect to challenge their organization’s ability to achieve its performance objectives during the next 12 months. Whitepaper September 16, 2020 The Road to Resiliency – Building a Robust Audit Plan for Operational Resilience Executive Summary The financial services industry has long relied on internal audit functions to assess and challenge the effectiveness of various programs designed to protect and build organizational value. These programs have included disaster recovery, business continuity, risk management, cybersecurity, and many others designed to help institutions recover from an event. The pressure comes… Newsletter December 12, 2021 Setting the 2022 Audit Committee Agenda In prior years, there have been unique enterprise, process and technology risk issues and financial reporting issues for audit committees to consider in addition to the normal ongoing activities articulated within the committee’s charter. These exciting, unprecedented times continue to evolve the committee’s agenda. We discuss the agenda items for 2022 in this issue of The Bulletin and… Survey March 9, 2023 Achieving Audit Relevance As internal audit functions face a continuing talent crunch and demands to support the organization’s strategic moves in response to external events, chief audit executives (CAEs) are focused on growing internal audit’s relevance with the board, senior executives and other stakeholders.For internal audit functions, elevating their relevance requires ongoing evolution and a committed focus on… Load More
