About Healthcare Compliance
Why a Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Compliance?
There are a number of key drivers within the healthcare industry, which are requiring a new level of expertise and more trained personnel with a well-grounded knowledge in healthcare compliance. These include market consolidation, a growing emphasis on cost reduction, the need to increasingly manage privacy, security, and risk, and the demand to reduce medical errors.
In addition, because of healthcare reform legislation, an ever-increasing number of regulations, and a fairly widespread lack of understanding about what is required for healthcare organizations to be in compliance, there is increasing demand for training programs. The mission of this program is to prepare compliance professionals to embrace the challenges involved in the complex and ever-changing environment of healthcare.
Chief Compliance Officer Salary
The 2012 Health Care Chief Compliance Officers Salary Survey reported the
"Average Chief Compliance Officer Salary by Number of Years Managing the Compliance Department" as:
| 1 year | $96,236 |
| 2 years | $101,926 |
| 3 years | $123,140 |
| 4 years | $105,639 |
| 5 years | $118,907 |
| 6-10 years | $130,917 |
| 11-15 years | $145,089 |
For more information and salary categories, you can find the survey on the HCCA website.
Careers/Job Title Related to Healthcare Compliance
(partial list - visit HCCA's Job Board for more)
Assistant Compliance Officer
Chargemaster Coordinator
Chief Compliance Officer
Clinical Compliance Auditor
Clinical Research Coordinator
Clinical Trials Billing Compliance Auditor
Coding Auditor
Compliance Administrator
Compliance Analyst
Compliance Assistant
Compliance Auditor
Compliance Coordinator
Compliance Consultant
Compliance Manager
Compliance Officer
Compliance Project Specialist
Compliance Specialist
Compliance Training Educator
Corporate Responsibility Coordinator
Data Security Analyst
Environmental Health & Safety Officer
Health Care Fraud Data Analyst
Health Plan Auditor
HIM Manager/ Director
Information Security Officer
Internal Auditor
Internal Review Board (IRB) Coordinator
Medicare Billing Manager
Medicare Compliance Analyst
Nurse Auditor
Pharmacy Regulatory Affairs
Physician Practice Manager
Physician Services Compliance
Privacy Breach Response Services Manager
Privacy Consultant
Privacy Officer
Quality Improvement Coordinator
Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) Coordinator
Regulatory Auditor
Regulatory Counsel
Release of Information Manager
Revenue Integrity Manager
Risk Manager
About Healthcare Compliance
Compliance is the state of being in accordance with established guidelines, specifications, or legislation or the process of coming into compliance. In the legal system, compliance refers to behavior in accordance with legislation, such as the initial piece of healthcare compliance legislation - the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), passed in 1996.
Due to healthcare reform and the growing emphasis combating and preventing on fraud, waste, and abuse in healthcare by the federal government, there is a growing demand for individuals with solid healthcare compliance knowledge and training. Healthcare compliance includes numerous challenges and issues in areas such as reimbursement, coding/billing, audits, managed care, physician contracts, EMTALA, HIPAA, OSHA, The Joint Commission, regulations, licensure, and due diligence to prevent and detect violations of the law.
There have been dramatic changes in healthcare policy and regulation over the past decade and as a result, compliance has become increasingly important in the industry. Compliance professionals can have a profound impact on the healthcare organization's success or failure. Legislation such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the federal Anti-Kickback and Stark Laws has created the need for compliance professionals to increase the knowledge and education in this increasingly specialized and complex field. Recent health reform legislation, including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, has raised the bar even higher. These new initiatives have made significant changes to the laws and regulations that govern the healthcare industry, including increased penalties to healthcare organizations found out of compliance.