Monday

• High-level overview of Healthcare compliance program elements
• Sharing problems and practices in implementing a compliance program
• Understanding of the seven elements

• Understand the importance of structure vs. operations
• The components of an effective compliance infrastructure
• Implementation of a compliance program, selection of qualified staff, and budgeting for program

• The importance of having a standards of conduct
• Essentials components of policies and procedures
• Evaluating the adequacy of compliance Standards and Policies

HIPAA

• A high-level overview of the privacy and security regulations
• Understand how to break down HIPAA issues
• Apply HIPAA rules to scenarios and breaches

Tuesday

Risk Assessment

• Understanding the risk assessment process
• Effective ways to conduct a risk assessment
• Tools to implement a risk assessment process

Auditing and Monitoring

• Understand the basics of auditing and monitoring
• Develop a compliance audit and monitoring risk based plan 
• Reporting and communicating auditing and monitoring results

Education and Training

• Understanding how adults learn
• Adult learning techniques, effective teaching styles, topics of interest, and evaluation of the educational programs
• The difference between general and focused/targeted education

Organizational Ethics

• Ethical conduct and responsibilities of the compliance officer
• Duties of the compliance professional
• Board obligations related to an ethical culture

Wednesday

Conflicts, Discipline, and Incentives

• Understand conflicts of interest
• Practical ways to implement a conflicts of interest process
• How discipline and incentives should be integrated into the compliance program

Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute

• Understand the Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute and how they work in practice
• Discusses case studies that illustrate compliance risks and current areas of focus for enforcement agencies
• Explore compliance processes needed to prevent AKS and Stark violations

Reimbursement

• Basic billing and reimbursement terminology 
• Billing and reimbursement risk areas 
• Mitigating billing and reimbursement risk areas

Internal and External Investigations

• Responding to enforcement agency investigations
• Compliance professionals and best practices for internal investigations
• Privilege, confidentiality and internal investigations

Thursday

Legal Risks, False Claims Act, and Self-Disclosure

• Legal risks and healthcare compliance
• False Claims Act and compliance programs
• Self-Disclosure and resolution of compliance liability

Compliance Program Effectiveness

• Why evaluate compliance programs
• Compliance program effectiveness indicators
• Response, reporting and follow-up to compliance program effectiveness reviews

The CHC exam is optional. You must apply and pay for the exam separately from the Academy.

To apply online, visit: hcca-info.org/Certification/ApplyforCCBCertification.aspx.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are not present at the specified "Exam Check-in Time" as listed above, and as determined by the exam proctor, you will not be allowed to sit for the exam. Actual exam duration is 120 minutes, per the Candidate Handbook. The time range, listed at left, includes mandatory exam procedures and proctor instructions.