The presentation will examine the importance of Background Checks and Exclusion Screening in the context of Risk Management and Health Care Compliance principles. First, it will examine the intersection of risk management and compliance in terms of their shared goals and objectives; second, the presentation will demonstrate how the vast majority of costs and risks in health care are closely linked to an organization’s employees; third, the presentation will explain why background checks and exclusion screening is so critical to the process of selecting employees, and last, the presentation will discuss how background checks and exclusion screens can be defeated and the best ways of responding.