Health Care Compliance Association

The Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) is a nonprofit, individual membership association which provides resources for ethics and compliance professionals in the United States. It serves over 10,000 members through publications, education programs, conferences and professional networking [2] including an online social network, which has over 15,000 registered users. HCCA also helps professionals become certified in health care compliance.

The HCCA started as a meeting at the 1996 annual Medical Group Management Association. Attendees included Roy Snell, then the compliance officer for the University of Wisconsin and now CEO of the HCCA, Brent Saunders of Thomas Jefferson University and Edward G. Longazel from the University of Pennsylvania. [3] At HCCA’s first annual meeting, held in September 1997 in Los Angeles, CA, many members asked for more local networking opportunities. It was decided at that meeting that HCCA would establish ten HCCA Regions, based on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services regions. From two members in a Minneapolis Chinese restaurant in 1996, grew to 2000 members three years later and today serves over 15,000 compliance professionals, including members of its sister association, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE). The HCCA has over 10,000 members alone.

The HCCA offers publications [4] and live training to its members.[5] Members of the HCCA have access to a repository of over 4,000 electronic documents including white papers and government memorandum. [6] These resources cover the range of challenges faced by health care compliance professionals including changing regulatory requirements from HIPAA and the OIG, as well as managing a program designed to meet the Organizational Sentencing Guidelines definition of an effective compliance program. HCCA has partnered with the OIG in issuing Government-industry roundtable reports to combat fraud and abuse and to drive for quality in long term care. In the past, Daniel Levinson, inspector general of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has spoken at HCCA Compliance Institutes.[7]

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