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The CPCO (Certified Professional Compliance Officer) is the AAPC's credential for professionals who build and manage healthcare compliance programs. It covers the OIG's compliance program guidance, the major fraud and abuse laws such as the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the physician self-referral (Stark) law, HIPAA privacy and security, and how to run internal investigations, audits and self-disclosures.
The CPCO exam evaluates your knowledge across these areas:
The elements of an effective compliance program, oversight and training.
False Claims Act, Anti-Kickback Statute, Stark law and civil monetary penalties.
HIPAA, CLIA, OSHA and other laws that affect healthcare organizations.
Risk assessments, internal investigations, audits and the OIG Self-Disclosure Protocol.
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Covers the OIG compliance program: its background, compliance officer authority, governing body oversight and responding to violations.
Start Practice →Tests more OIG compliance guidance: monitoring, gifts and inducements, arrangements tracking and billing company programs.
Start Practice →Focuses on key risk areas: limitation on liability, teaching physicians, limiting charges, retaliation and the False Claims Act.
Start Practice →Reviews other laws and regulations: HIPAA privacy and marketing rules, beneficiary inducements, CLIA, OSHA and RICO.
Start Practice →Covers investigations and audits: HIPAA complaints, OSHA records, risk assessments and the OIG Self-Disclosure Protocol.
Start Practice →Compliance officers, compliance analysts, practice managers, auditors and coders who manage or support compliance programs in healthcare organizations.
The False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the physician self-referral (Stark) law, HIPAA and the OIG's compliance program guidance come up throughout the exam.
Study the elements of an effective compliance program, learn the key fraud and abuse laws and their penalties, and practice applying them to real-world scenarios with timed exams. Our five CPCO practice sets follow this outline.
The CPCO shows you can protect an organization from compliance risk. It supports careers as a compliance officer, compliance auditor or privacy and compliance lead in practices, hospitals and health plans.