Audit anxiety is common in healthcare. But what happens when fear starts shaping your policies, documentation, and oversight structure?

In this episode, Dr. Natasha Guess breaks down how compliance programs often become overengineered in response to audit pressure. While stricter policies and longer documentation may look proactive on paper, they can actually increase risk when they do not reflect day-to-day operations.

You will learn:
• Why regulators are not looking for perfection• How misalignment between policy and practice creates findings• The difference between optics-driven compliance and defensible systems• How to build credibility through consistency rather than complexity

If your compliance program feels heavier every time an audit headline appears, this episode will help you reset your approach and build systems that are calm, realistic, and sustainable.

For structured guidance, practical tools, and ongoing compliance education, visit the Compliance Support Hub:
https://guesscomplianceconsultingllc.com/compliance-support-hub

Because audits do not fail practices for being imperfect. They fail practices when their compliance story does not align.

This is a longer-form episode (over an hour) designed for listeners who want a deeper, more practical conversation about one of the most misunderstood areas of healthcare compliance.

Business Associate Agreements are familiar documents, but they often create a false sense of security. In this episode of Guess What? Compliance Can Be Simple!, Dr. Natasha Guess is joined by the owner of The Honeycomb Collective to explore where BAA risk actually lives for small healthcare teams, not in legal language, but in day-to-day operations.

They discuss how BAAs are intended to function, why having one on file doesn’t automatically mean you’re protected, and how hidden risk emerges when vendor roles evolve, subcontractors are introduced, or workflows change without documentation keeping pace.

This conversation is especially relevant for small and midsize healthcare practices that rely on technology platforms, external vendors, or third-party support and want to understand how to spot gaps before they become problems.

If this episode raises questions about your own vendor relationships or documentation practices, you can find practical tools and resources in my Compliance Support Hub:
https://guesscomplianceconsultingllc.com/compliance-support-hub

Administrative compliance is one of the most common sources of stress for healthcare and wellness teams. That stress rarely comes from wrongdoing. It comes from how administrative requirements show up through formal notices, portals, deadlines, and unclear expectations.

In this episode, Dr. Natasha Guess walks through what administrative compliance actually is, why it often feels overwhelming, and how practices can approach it with more clarity and less fear. This conversation applies to insurance based, cash pay, and hybrid practices.

Listeners will learn:

• Why many administrative reviews are confirmations rather than audits

• How CMS, OIG, HIPAA, and payer expectations overlap in practice

• Where small and medium sized teams most often struggle operationally

• Why compliance issues frequently stem from system gaps rather than negligence

• What sustainable and realistic compliance structures look like

This episode is educational and provided for compliance support purposes only. It is not legal advice.

If you want ongoing, practical compliance support designed for real world healthcare operations, you are invited to join the Compliance Support Hub. Inside, the focus is on building systems that make compliance predictable, manageable, and aligned with how practices actually operate.

Learn more and join here
https://guesscomplianceconsultingllc.com/compliance-support-hub