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AAPC CEU Credits for HIPAA Academy Program
Salt Lake City, UT August 19, 2002 - The American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) has granted prior approval of 18.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to individuals completing the 3-Day HIPAA Awareness Bootcamp.
This Certified HIPAA Professional (CHP) 3-day Training helps you better understand HIPAA's Administrative Simplification Act as well as how to create a framework for initiating and working towards a blueprint for HIPAA compliance.
The focus of the CHP program is to better understand the implications of HIPAA legislation and identify critical compliance requirements for healthcare business.
The program is designed to focus on specific aspects of the HIPAA Administrative Simplification Title. It addresses HIPAA requirements in the areas of Transactions, Privacy and Security. It is strongly recommended that all key members of the enterprise HIPAA team attend this 3-day boot camp so that a common body of HIPAA knowledge may be established. This will provide the base line to launch HIPAA implementation initiatives.
The complete 3-day Certified HIPAA Professional program is ideal for Healthcare Executives, Senior Clinicians, Chief Information Officers, Lawyers, Compliance Officers, Privacy and Security Officials, Quality Assurance and Risk Managers, Insurance Executives, Physicians and Office Managers, Pharmaceutical Company Executives, and Clinical Trial Organization Professionals.
The AAPC grants prior approval for continuing education programs based on the relevance of the program content to the medical coding and reimbursement profession. In order to retain the credential of CPC or CPC-H, coding and reimbursement professionals are required to participate in the continuing education program for maintenance of certification. Participation with continuing education coding seminars, workshops, and publications are methods of obtaining continuing education credits and maintaining competence.
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