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CCH Corporate Governance and Compliance for Health Care: A Practical Guide

Are you looking for practical, how-to guidance with regard to corporate governance for health care? CCH® is pleased to introduce Corporate Governance and Compliance for Health Care: A Practical Guide—an invaluable resource for individuals needing reliable information and analysis of the laws, regulations and guidelines.

In April 2004, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to amend the organizational sentencing guidelines to toughen the guidelines criteria for effective corporate compliance and ethics programs. These Amendments represent the first time the organizational sentencing guidelines have been modified in their 13-year history.

CCH Corporate Governance and Compliance for Health Care provides the full text reproduction of the laws; it also covers the day-to-day issues most vital to health care professionals. Most importantly, it offers how-to/practical scenarios designed to help you develop sound corporate governance policies.

CCH Corporate Governance and Compliance for Health Care is a subscription-based product designed to provide core legal analysis and explanatory materials for corporate governance in a health care setting. Providing full text reproduction of the laws, the Guide offers how-to/practical scenarios designed to help you develop sound corporate governance policies, including sample policies, procedures and implementation tools.

The Guide provides:

• In-depth analysis of Sarbanes-Oxley and U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines
• Expanded coverage of false claims, self-referral, privilege issues and conflicts of interest issues as they apply to the health care provider market
• Sample forms, policies and procedures to assist in developing effective corporate governance and compliance programs
• Risk assessment tools, including a questionnaire designed to give an organization an overview of its strengths and weaknesses with regard to corporate governance policies

Benefits and Features

• Part I: Risk Assessment Tools: Questionnaire designed to provide the entity with an overview of their strengths and weaknesses with regard to corporate governance policies.
• Part II: Laws and Regulations: Overview and full text reproduction of the most critical laws, regulations, Sentencing Guidelines, other government generated guidelines and possible notable cases.
• Part III: Explanations: An explanatory section detailing the law and various compliance mandates and providing how-to/practical scenarios. Written by experts in the field, this section is designed to help develop sound corporate governance policies. Revenue-based considerations, investigations and operations would be addressed as well.
• Part IV: Policies, Forms, Checklists, and Implementation Tools: Includes model policies, forms, and checklists to assist in developing effective corporate governance and compliance programs.

Special Risk Assessment Questionnaire and interactive tools: utilize these risk assessment tools to identify and quantify risk areas within your corporate compliance programs by facility department.