Independent Contractor Customer Trainers WANTED!
RespirTech is proud of our commitment to our customers, especially in the area of in home trainings. Most of which would not happen without our dedicated team of Independent Contractor Trainers! As we grow we are always looking for trainers who feel the same way we do!
RespirTech contracts with Independent Contractors for the purpose of performing in home patient training to clients on the inCourage™ System throughout the United States and Canada. We are seeking Independent Contractors who preferably have experience in the following fields:
- Respiratory Therapist
- RN
- LPN
- Occupational Therapist
- Physical Therapist
- Physician
- EMS Personnel with CPR Certification
RespirTech also requires criminal background checks of all Independent Contractors who apply for training on our behalf. There is a form on this website that you must complete for consideration for Independent Contractor employment which gives RespirTech permission to perform a National, State and Sexual Predator search on criminal backgrounds. It does not include a Credit Check background search. The form also has the current Fair Credit and Reporting Act (FCRA) explanation of your rights to view any information provided to RespirTech. Please read the document carefully.
Please return the Verifications Disclosure and Release form along with a copy of your current resume to:
RespirTech
Attn: Kit
1380 Energy Lane, Suite 113
St. Paul, Minnesota 55108
Once the background check is completed and you have been accepted as a Trainer, our Training Coordinator will contact you to begin your personal training on the inCourage™ System!
In addition, RespirTech wants to make you aware of our commitment to federal regulations as they pertain to Medicare Fraud and Abuse Statute and the Whistleblower Statute. Although you are not an “employee” of RespirTech, you do represent the company to the public on our behalf. You also interact with our staff at our corporate office as well as come into periodic contact with our Business Development staff.
We are committed to the statutes as outlined below and want you to know that you may exercise your rights under these policies if you feel anyone at RespirTech has violated any policy as they relate to below.
MEDICARE FRAUD AND ABUSE STATUTE
Violations of Medicare laws and the Medicare Fraud and Abuse Statute also constitute violations of the False Claims Act. durable goods providers, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, or laboratories to name a few, that seek and receive reimbursement for Medicare and Medicaid funds are Government contractors subject to the False Claims Act.
All RespirTech employees should pay particular attention to our services provided and our business practices. Not only can this improve the healthcare for patients and loved ones, but it also helps ensure that public Medicare and Medicaid monies are properly spent in accordance with the law and good medical practice.
Fraud may include billing for services not rendered, misrepresenting the type of goods or services rendered, misrepresenting the nature of the patient's illness, providing kickbacks to a medical provider in order to induce the provider to prescribe certain devices, prescribing unneeded treatment that is not a medical necessity, charging
Medicare or Medicaid patients a higher rate than others for the same prescription, or knowingly providing defective products or services. In addition falsely diagnosing a more severe ailment than the one the patient actually has, known as "up-coding" a diagnosis, thereby justifying a more expensive drug therapy or other treatment than that which the patient's health really requires. Inappropriate changes in patients' prescriptions from one device to another as a result of kickbacks
or for other improper reasons or falsely reporting research grant information to government agencies may all trigger False Claims legal action.
RespirTech strives to maintain a legal and ethical work environment not only for our customers, but also for our employees and contracted staff. It is imperative that any potential, suspected or actual abuse be reported immediately to the CEO, the Human Resources Department or through an established email address for employees and customers to use if anyone believes an issue need to be addressed to: privacyofficial@respirtech.com.
The Human Resources Department monitors and addresses all communications through this email address. All reports made through this reporting system will remain
confidential, unless legal action is required and the reporting person’s testimony is required. Federal and state Whistleblower laws protect individuals who report abuses.
WHISTLEBLOWER STATUTE
The Whistleblower Protection Act protects you from harassment, demotion and wrongful termination for reporting fraud. Because of the law, you can file a whistleblower claim knowing that you are protected from retaliation. In 1986, Congress added anti-retaliation protections to the False Claims Act.
Any employee who is discharged, demoted, suspended, threatened, harassed, or in any other manner discriminated against in the terms and conditions of employment by his or her employer because of lawful acts done by the employee on behalf of his employer or others in furtherance of an action under this section, including investigation for, initiation of, testimony for, or assistance in an action filed or to be filed under this section, shall be entitled to all relief necessary to make the employee whole.
The protection against retaliation extends to whistleblowers whose allegations could legitimately support a False Claims Act case even if the case is never filed. The statute of limitations for Sec. 3730(h) claims is 6 years in most jurisdictions. Check with your legal counsel.
