A Practical, Audit-Ready Reference — Not Just a Policy Restatement
This checklist breaks down HCP payment compliance into the exact categories reviewers examine, so your team can self-assess before someone else does it for you.
What you’ll get:
- ✅ Core Payment Compliance Checklist — the 10 things every HCP payment record needs to prove, from legitimate business purpose through FMV methodology and payment timing
- 🌍 International Payment Addendum — country-specific approvals, disclosure frameworks, currency conversion, withholding tax, and data privacy requirements for payments made outside the US
- 🔍 Audit Trail Questions — the exact questions your payment records should be able to answer without a manual reconstruction effort
- 🚩 Red Flags Checklist — the patterns experienced compliance reviewers watch for, including speaker program risks, rate exceptions, and market-presence gaps
Use it as a self-audit tool, a training reference for new compliance hires, or a benchmark for evaluating whether your current payment workflows are actually enforcing the policies you’ve written down.
Whether you’re validating a single high-risk payment or assessing your entire program’s audit-readiness, this checklist is designed for:
- Compliance and Ethics teams managing HCP engagement governance
- Finance teams responsible for payment processing and FMV controls
- Medical Affairs teams engaging speakers, advisors, and KOLs
- Legal teams preparing for regulatory inquiries or internal audits
Medispend’s Commercial Compliance solutions help life sciences companies operationalize exactly what this checklist describes, embedding FMV controls, proof-of-performance requirements, and transparency reporting rules directly into the payment workflow, so compliance isn’t a manual review step. It’s built in.