Health care compliance professionals to join more than 2,000 of their colleagues to discuss compliance challenges posed by new and changing regulations, medical data privacy and security, and a myriad of other challenges

MINNEAPOLIS, March 18, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With U.S. health care under greater scrutiny than ever, more than 2,000 health care compliance professionals will be meeting at the 2015 Compliance Institute to help ensure that their organizations' compliance programs are able to meet the public and government's expectations of health care providers. The Health Care Compliance Association's (HCCA) 19th Annual Compliance Institute, developed for, and by compliance professions, is the primary education and networking event for health care compliance professionals. This year's Compliance Institute, features 148 sessions, 254 speakers, and 10 educational tracks held from April 19 to 22, in Lake Buena Vista Florida.

"With so much changing in health care, and an already high bar set for health care providers, this conference is just crucial to the health care compliance profession. It addresses the topics that are on people's minds, and helps ensure that compliance programs are focused and effective at preventing, finding, and fixing problems," said HCCA Chief Executive Officer Roy Snell.

The 19^th Compliance Institute now offers ten learning tracks with HCCA adding an Internal Audit track to the agenda this year. Other tracks include: General Compliance and Hot Topics, Long-Term Care, Privacy & Security, Physician Compliance, Compliance Lawyer, Auditing & Monitoring, Quality of Care, How to Succeed as a Compliance Professional, and Advanced Discussion Groups.

At this year's conference, attendees will hear from leaders in business, government enforcement, ethics, and cyber security which include:

• James Trainor, Deputy Assistant Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Cyber Operations Section
• Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS),
• Professor Marianne M. Jennings,  an emeritus professor of legal and ethical studies in business from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, who retired in 2011 after 35 years of teaching there, and
• Michael Woodford, a former CEO and a whistleblower

"The press, public and politicians all hold health care up to a high standard.  Compliance programs are key to ensuring that those expectations are met, and the Compliance Institute is critical to ensuring that compliance professionals have the knowledge they need to do the job effectively," said Snell.

More about the 2015 Compliance Institute
2015 Compliance Institute (CI) attendees learn the latest methods and strategies for developing and improving their compliance programs in this fast changing health care industry. For more information, use this link to access the Compliance Institute website http://www.compliance-institute.org/

About HCCA
The HCCA, established in 1996 and headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, is a non-profit professional membership organization with more than 10,000 members. It is dedicated to improving the quality of compliance. Visit HCCA's website at www.hcca-info.org. Tel: 888/580-8373. 

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SOURCE Health Care Compliance Association

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