Compliance 101 -- SCCE First edition/discontinued Perfect Paperback – September 1, 2008

I like it

I have not used this book becasue I have competely changed my field of concentration. I will pass this book onto someone who is looking to go into Corporate Compliance.

I expected more of a non-healthcare related guide to starting a compliance program -- especially after reading the review about its uselessness as a healthcare compliance guide. This guide is far too heavy on the healthcare examples and completely neglects other scenarios. I have no need for HIPAA compliance info, for example, which completely negates my need for the entire chapter 5. Extracting basic compliance information while skimming over the healthcare-specific examples was a bit tedious. This was certainly NOT what I had hoped for. And for $60, it's pretty lean on info at 152 pages. While not completely useless, this book was quite disappointing. I found more helpful information for free just searching the Internet.

Compliance 101 is as useless as other Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) books and products (e.g. Auditing and monitoring Health Care Compliance). Compliance 101 is promoted by this association that sells ethics to make money, which explains the high price. Compliance 101 is overpriced for what it offers. It is falsely promoted as a book that would help CHC candidates pass their certification exam in health care compliance, which is also offered by HCCA. In reality, the test has nothing to do with this book, and it consists of 120 nebulous questions while only 100 of them count toward the final score. Clearly, the test is deliberately designed to increase non-passing rates in order for the association to make more money. They charge $250.00 dollars to take this test for the HCCA members and $350.00 for the non-members. They promote these expensive and useless books to enrich their board members (like Troklus, Warner, and Schwartz) and executives. They even purposely set the passing scores higher than any other association (72%) to ensure that people will take the test more than once and pay them more money. At the same time, there are no materials whatsoever that would prepare a candidate for their certification test, unless you enroll in one of their $3,000 conferences, which might then increase your chances of getting some assistance to pass their exam. Until recently, their online short quiz was guarded like a top secret where the answers weren't even posted in order to help candidates assess their knowledge. However, they recently modified their quiz and added the answers to probably appease their members' complaints. Basically, the certification exam in health care compliance (CHC) is a shot in the dark, meanwhile, HCCA continue to falsely promote their books like compliance 101 and other products as preparatory for their CHC test. The bottom line, HCCA is about making dollars! Save your money instead of buying compliance 101, purchasing other HCCA products, or even joining this organization and taking their rigged certification exams.Selling ethics for money is a great theme that is catching on in many other organizations!Maybe after you read compliance 101 you can start your own!!

Compliance 101 helped give me a grounding in the field of corporate compliance. It explains how the job of compliance officer has become an important role that every company should have, and it shows what is needed to begin a compliance program. Its a quick read but full of good information.