Health Care Compliance Professional S Manual

The Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual is one of the most vital, long-standing, and best known resources in the world of health care compliance. It has all the tools you and your compliance team need to plan and execute a customized compliance program. This new edition is filled with industry best practices, sample forms, policies, procedures, and much more to save you time and comply with federal standards. The Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual will help you to: Use OIG publications and Federal Sentencing Guidelines to plan and execute a customized compliance strategy that meets tough federal standards and minimizes enforcement risks Oversee physician compensation and referrals Perform risk assessments using matrixes with step-by-step instructions to pinpoint areas that pose compliance and operational risks Draft compliance policies that form the foundation for a strong compliance program Build a strong infrastructure reinforced by industry best practices Create an effective education and training program that instills in employees the importance of legal compliance Implement a privacy and security plan that ensures patient information is protected Stay up-to-date on the latest legal and state and federal regulatory requirements affecting your facility, in areas such as HIPAA, EMTALA, fraud and abuse, reimbursement, privacy, security, patient safety, and clinical research Study for CCB(R) Certification in Healthcare Compliance (CHC) Packed with tools to make your job easier and more efficient, The Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual will provide: Practical coverage of federal and state laws governing your facility Insight into helpful federal standards on effective compliance programs Step-by-step guidance on implementing a sound compliance program Examples of common risk areas and how to handle them Time savings and peace of mind from sample policies, checklists and forms from members of the American Health Law Association (AHLA) The Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual will help you protect your company if violations do occur: Learn how to apply auditing, monitoring, and self-assessment techniques for conducting internal investigations Discover how to successfully follow the OIG's voluntary disclosure program to resolve overpayment problems and avoid exclusion from Medicare Find out how to enter into a corporate integrity agreement to settle with the federal government and mitigate FCA-related penalties Document your compliance efforts so you leave a protective paper trail that shields you from liability And much more Previous Edition: Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual, Second Edition ISBN: 9781543813265 SKU: 10071961-7777

The Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual gives you all the tools you need to plan and execute a customized compliance program that meets federal standards. It walks you through the entire process, start to finish, showing you how to draft compliance policies, build a strong compliance infrastructure in your organization, document your efforts, apply self-assessment techniques, create an effective education program, pinpoint areas of risk, conduct internal probes and much more. The Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual is used by the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) as the basic text for its Compliance Academy - the program that prepares compliance professionals for the CHC (Certificate in Healthcare Compliance) certification exam. The Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual will help you to: Use OIG publications and Federal Sentencing Guidelines to help plan and execute a customized compliance strategy that meets tough federal standards Perform risk assessment to pinpoint areas within your company that pose compliance and operational risks Draft compliance policies that form the foundation for a strong compliance program Build a strong infrastructure for compliance to work, including hiring the right personnel Create an effective education and training program that instills in employees the value of legal compliance Conduct internal probes that uncover legal violations before the federal government does - and mitigate possible penalties Stay up-to-date on all the latest legal and regulatory requirements affecting your facility, including HIPAA, EMTALA, fraud and abuse reimbursement, privacy, security, patient safety and much more! Packed with tools to make your job easier, The Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual will provide: Practical coverage of federal and state laws governing your facility Document efforts and apply self assessment techniques Insight into helpful federal standards on effective compliance programs Step-by-step guidance on implementing a sound compliance program Time-saving sample compliance policies, forms, checklists, and chart The Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual will protect your company if violations do occur: Learn how to apply auditing, monitoring, and self-assessment techniques Discover how to successfully follow the OIG's voluntary disclosure program to resolve overpayment problems and avoid exclusion from Medicare Find out how to enter into a corporate integrity agreement to settle with the federal government and mitigate FCA-related penalties Document your compliance efforts so you leave a protective paper trail that shields you from liability And much more

Ready-made compliance policies and procedures that you can adapt to your facility. Policies and procedures are the backbone of any compliance program. Compliance professionals must ensure that their policies and procedures are effective and up to date. To ensure effectiveness, the OIG expects hospitals to regularly re-evaluate their policies and procedures. Insight from a former Inspector General The Healthcare Compliance Professional's Guide to Policies and Procedures is written by former Inspector General Richard P. Kusserow. He has filled this book with sample policies and procedures that hospitals can use to strengthen their existing compliance program or help build a new one. Customize your program immediately The Healthcare Compliance Professional's Guide to Policies and Procedures provides the easy-to-use policies and procedures you need to ensure that your compliance program runs efficiently and smoothly. With these tools you will be able to: Implement proven, effective policies and procedures by using the sample templates provided Instruct staff with easy-to-comprehend instructions regarding policy and procedure development Identify best practices for policy and procedure development that are most likely to pass OIG investigation Ensure your policies are up to date with all legislation passed through the beginning of 2008 All of these sample policies and procedures can be used right away. Download our sample policies directly from the companion CD-ROM. You can then customize each document to fit your specific situation. It's that easy to develop a proven, effective set of policies and procedures! Take a look at the table of contents to see the variety of sample policies and procedures you will receive with The Healthcare Compliance Professional's Guide to Policies and Procedures: Compliance program oversight policies and procedures Compliance officer duties and responsibilities Confidentiality agreements Compliance officer and legal counsel protocol Records management Standards of conduct Ethics Compliance education and training Billing and coding policies Accurate coding Observation status Accurate documentation Prohibition of fraudulent and abusive billing Medicare's "incident to" rule Charity/uninsured care Medical necessity How to check for medical necessity ABN use for items and services that do not meet medical necessity Conflicts of interest agreements Gifts Vendor relationships Discounts/professional courtesies Reporting compliance problems Hotline use Hotline auditing Responses to complaints Nonretaliation policy (whistleblower protection) Auditing and monitoring Procedures for documenting auditing and monitoring Standards for auditing and monitoring Policies specific to laws and regulations Stark Anti-kickback statute False Claims Act Deficit Reduction Act EMTALA HIPAA Other risk areas Quality of care Clinical trials

Aspen Publishers' Health Law and Compliance Center has teamed up with the Health Care Compliance Association to produce this comprehensive, practical manual. from explanations of the major legislation, to risk assessments for each of the major practice areas, to hiring and training a compliance officer, the Health Care Compliance Professional's Manual will help you implement an effective compliance program in your health care facility.Also learn about audits, reporting mechanisms, discipline, documentation, joint venture and subcontractor relationships, ethics, baseline assessments and legal risks. Finally, a selection of real-life forms and policies will get you started in creating your own facility's documentation.

Authored by experts with years of health care compliance experience, this new edition integrates changes in regulation, trends in enforcement, and the reasoning of the courts to help you navigate emerging and unsettled areas of compliance risk, such as self-disclosure obligations, risks associated with opioid use, and the impact of statistical sampling.Highlights of this edition include:All new glossary of health care compliance terms, including key statutes, acronyms, governing agencies, and moreExpanded civil monetary penalty and exclusion authorities under 2017 final rulesDiscussion of core elements of compliance programs for Medicare Advantage Plans and Part D Plans as established by federal regulationsExpanded whistleblower protections under federal and state law, false claims based on lack of medical necessity, materiality after Escobar, and recent enforcement activityExpanded discussion of determinations of medical necessity, CMS review of medical necessity terminations, consequences, and appeals processesRecent health information privacy and security developments, including new guidance, risks associated with innovative technologies, and trends in Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) enforcement activityNew chapters:Chapter 1, Glossary of Key TermsChapter 10, The Relationship between Enforcement and ComplianceChapter 17, Health Care Civil Rights and Nondiscrimination Under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care ActChapter 19, Behavioral Health