UPDATES & INFORMATION
Executive Certification Course
February 1-3, 2010 • Alexandria, VA
This popular course is being offered again for the second year in a row at HET headquarters in Old Town Alexandria. All CCE and CCP education requirements are covered by this intensive course in one sitting. This course is only offered once a year, and enrollment is already filling up. To ensure a spot, please call 703-683-7916 or download the registration form here.
OIG Workplan 2010
The 2010 OIG Work Plan was released October 1, 2009 by HHS. The OlG Work Plan sets forth projects to be addressed during the fiscal year by the Office of Audit Services, Office of Evaluation and Inspections, Office of Investigations, and Office of Counsel to the Inspector General. The Work Plan includes projects planned in each of the Department's major entities: the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services; the public health agencies; and the Administrations for Children, Families, and Aging. Information is also provided on projects related to issues that cut across departmental programs, including State and local government use of Federal funds, as well as the functional areas of the Office of the Secretary.
Click here to download the 2010 OIG Work Plan
The 2009 Healthcare Compliance Best Practices Forum will be held October 26 and 27 in Washington, DC.
The Best Practices Forum was established in 1995 in cooperation with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to recognize unique accomplishments in the development and management of compliance programs. Mark Pastin, President of the Health Ethics Trust, said, “There is very little recognition for achievements in compliance - and that is why our board created the Healthcare Best Compliance Practices Forum.”
If you have never attended the Forum, it is unquestionably the compliance education event of the year. Unlike programs in which you are surrounded by vendors hawking their own ideas, the Forum allows you to look at what others are doing successfully in their programs.
Awards are open to any area of program development and management but the practice must have been implemented for at least six months. Those who intend to make submissions should declare their intention as soon as possible. The complete submission package must be received by the end of September 2009.
Award recipients are selected by the Best Practices Committee, an independent committee of working compliance professionals. In addition to awards for program elements, we will identify a Best Compliance Practice of the Year 2009. If you are submitting an entire program for consideration, the submission must be accompanied by a program evaluation conducted within the past 24 months. Submissions will only be considered if a member of the candidate organization – capable of presenting the submitted practice – is enrolled prior to the submission deadline of September 25, 2009.
The Best Practices Forum carries credit towards the CCP (Certified Compliance Professional) and CCE (Certified Compliance Executive) credentials.
Like all Trust programs, the Forum is held in a vendor-free environment. This is our lowest tuition course of the year so that the wide possible group of compliance professionals may attend.
For the enrollment and registration form please click here
www.BestCompliancePractices.com will be your resource for more information, speaker and award winner announcements and everything you need to know about the Forum.
Continue reading about the 2009 Forum by clicking here.
Hotlines & Investigations Course On-Line
The Health Ethics Trust began offering on-line courses for compliance professionals in order to meet the needs of professionals to gain education and certification within limited travel budgets.
Well, travel and education budgets are slimmer than we ever imagined. We understand, and it is our goal to help you meet your education and certification requirements within budget. Thus, we have dramatically reduced the tuition on our Hotlines and Investigations Course. Through July 15, 2009, members can take the course for $195 and non-members $395.
This course provides in-depth education on all aspects of hotline operation and conducting related investigations.
Remember that you can become an individual member through June 30 for only $150!
Click here to download the enrollment form.
Talk-About-Compliance Listserve
Do you want to interact with other compliance officers on issues of concern? Do you want to find out what compliance policies and practices are used in other organizations? Do you want to keep up on the latest compliance developments?
Sign up for Talk-About-Compliance by clicking here.
There is no charge for this service and we never sell lists.
The Commission on Compliance Program Effectiveness (CCPE)
The Health Ethics Trust, a division of the Council of Ethical Organizations, formed an independent body, the Commission on Compliance Program Effectiveness (CCPE), charged with conducting compliance assessments according to recognized standards and offering a responsible certification of compliance program effectiveness – the CCPE Certification.
Click here to for more information.
The Pastin Report on Best Compliance Practices
As many of you know, The Pastin Report has been on hiatus. During its many years of publication, we had no idea who if anyone read it. When we suspended publication, we found out that it was much enjoyed by many. So we are bringing it back - Volume 7, Number 1 is now available - May 2008.
Get a free back issue by clicking here.
Sample Identity Theft Policy
Stemming from a discussion on the Talk-About-Compliance Listserve, we have posted a sample policy for download.
Click here for more information
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NEW ON THE SITE
Ethics For Sale.....
Literally, check out our new store where you can purchase CRAZY 4 COMPLIANCE hats for your staff, renew your membership or pay for your Best Practices Tuition. Be sure to check back often as we will be offering more items very soon.
Click here to enter the store.
Stay up to date on news and announcements and connect with other compliance professionals in our network. You can also start a discussion or post a job opening. Click the link above to be redirected to our page.
Individual Membership
In response to growing ethics and compliance concerns in healthcare, the Council of Ethical Organizations formed the Health Ethics Trust in 1995. The purpose of the Trust is to assist organizations and individuals committed to ethical and legal conduct through educational programs, research, and shared best practices.
The Health Ethics Trust sponsors a full agenda of ethics and compliance activities – such as the annual Healthcare Best Compliance Practices Forum. Trust members also have full privileges as members of the Council of Ethical Organizations.
The HET individual membership program is designed for those leading a one-person compliance function and for those whose employer will not support an organizational membership. The Trust’s individual membership has shown rapid growth in recent years because we have worked hard to ensure the value of individual membership. If a member attends even one program in a given membership year, the cost of individual membership will be fully recovered.
More details available on our membership page or by clicking here.
Compliance Watch
From time to time, we call attention to one of the resources we have found valuable. For those of you with behavioral compliance responsibilities, Compliance Watch is a very helpful and practical resource. Click the image below to download a sample issue
The Joy of Compliance
Mark Pastin, who along with June Gibbs Brown, pioneered health care compliance, has a blog where he takes the gloves off, tickles your funny bone and shares irreverent opinions on books, money, golf and, of course, everything you were afraid to ask about compliance at: www.ethicswhisperer.com.
The new shipment of hats has arrived!
Our new FRAUD ALERT hats are, of course, a play on the fraud alerts we all deal with but are intended to remind others that fraud prevention, detection and correction are part of our mission as compliance professionals.
Our popular Crazy 4 Compliance hats are always available in either blue or burgundy.
Get yours today by calling us at 703.683.7916 or email request by clicking here.
Individual hats are $19.95 (non-members) and $15.95 (members) with volume discounts available on orders of 6 or more.
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