Boot Camp for the Health Care Fraud Investigator
NHCAA’s Boot Camp is a three-day training program that anchors the path to becoming an AHFI® and shows participants the skills necessary to become a successful investigator or analyst within any health care anti-fraud organization. In 2024, it will be held in-person in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Designed for career switchers, inter-departmental transfers, or new college graduates with less than three years of experience in health care fraud, this program will help your newest team members acquire an understanding of the core competencies necessary to combat health care fraud. Expert faculty lays the foundation for investigative strategy, recognizing fraud schemes, and deploying investigative skills.
Participants will return to their teams with new knowledge and be able to:
- Explain common health care fraud schemes.
- Implement basic investigative strategies to enhance fraud detection and investigation.
- Identify the steps in an investigative plan.
- Identify common data analytic strategies to investigate a case.
- Evaluate cases for merit.
- Detect potential red flags in medical and billing records.
- Identify appropriate resources to assist in fraud detection and investigation.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to invest in building your team’s skills!
Registration Information
REGISTRATION RATES
Dues paying Member Organizations and National Government Liaisons can designate up to two tuition-free registrations per program. Platinum Supporting Members can designate one tuition-free registration per program. State-based Government Liaisons agencies receive five complimentary registrations* to use throughout the year. State Medicaid Fraud Control Units can use the tuition-free seats provided to the National Association of Medicaid Fraud Control Units (NAMFCU).
* No more than two complimentary registrations may be used at any one of the programs.
| NHCAA Member1 | Government2 |
| $1225 | $1375 |
REGISTRATION POLICIES
- Registration closes at 4:00 pm ET on June 18, 2024.
Cancellation/Substitution
Written notice of cancellations and substitutions must be sent via email to training@nhcaa.org.
- Cancellations must be received before the registration deadline to obtain a refund (minus the administrative fee).
- For cancellations received after the registration deadline, no refund will be provided but a credit for a future training is available.
- Substitutions received after the registration deadline will be assessed with at $50.00 administrative fee.
Concerns
For more information regarding administrative policies such as refunds, cancellations and complaints, please email training@nhcaa.org.
Details & FAQ
This program will be presented live, in person in New Orleans, Louisiana. Some supplemental material will be available virtually through the event website.
Designed for career switchers, inter-departmental transfers, or new college graduates with less than three years of experience in health care fraud, this program will help your newest team members acquire an understanding of the core competencies necessary to combat health care fraud. Expert faculty lays the foundation for investigative strategy, recognizing fraud schemes, and deploying investigative skills.
As a level I, or beginner program, no investigative / health care / coding expertise is assumed. Training content is focused on the detection and investigative processes, using case examples to highlight strategy and techniques.
There are no pre-requisites for attending this program.
Participants earn 24 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) hours applicable to the training requirements for the Accredited Health Care Fraud Investigator (AHFI®) designation.
*This program has the prior approval of AAPC for 6.0 continuing education hours. Granting of prior approval in no way constitutes endorsement by AAPC of the program content or the program sponsor.
The NHCAA Institute is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.
NASBA Field of Study: Specialized Knowledge & Applications
- CPEs: 24
