Top 100 Healthcare Compliance Topics

Healthcare compliance topics encompass a wide range of legal and ethical areas of focus as they apply to healthcare organizations. The practice of HCC is part of an organization’s governance, risk management, and compliance efforts (GRC). A variety of federal and state governmental organizations regulate healthcare compliance topics, including DEA, FDA, HCC and OIG. 

Top 100 HCC Topics 

HCC topics are both broad and deep. Here are the top 100 healthcare compliance topics we’ve helped pharmaceutical and medical device companies create training for.

1. Adverse Events and Product Complaints 
2. Advisory Boards 
3. Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery
4. Anti-Kickback Statute 
5. Auditing and Monitoring 
6. Business Meals 
7. Charitable Donations (Company and Personal) 
8. Clinical Research 
9. Code of Conduct 
10. Commercial Contracts
11. Company-Sponsored Research 
12. Competition Law
13. Compliance Investigations
14. Compliant Communications 
15. Conduct at Conventions 
16. Conflicts of Interest (Employee) 
17. Conflicts of Interest with HCPs, including R&D Conflicts of Interest
18. Congress and Symposium
19. Consulting Arrangements 
20. Corporate Responsibility 
21. Coupons
22. Credentialing
23. Cross-Border Interactions
24. Customer Targeting 
25. Data Protection 
26. Direct to Consumer (DTC) Messaging and Interactions 
27. Disciplinary Action 
28. Disclosures and Standards of Conduct 
29. Diversity
30. Document Management and Retention 
31. Donations
32. Due Diligence 
33. Educational Activities and Grants 
34. Educational Items 
35. Entertainment
36. Environmental Health and Safety 
37. Ethical Behavior 
38. Ethics Hotline 
39. Expense Reports 
40. Fair Market Value
41. False Claims Act 
42. Federal Transparency 
43. Fee for Service Arrangements 
44. Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act 
45. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
46. Foundations of Compliance 
47. GDPR
48. Global Anti-Corruption and Anti-Bribery 
49. Global Trade
50. Government Advocacy and Political Activities 
51. Government Contract and Pricing Compliance 
52. Government Interactions
53. Government Officials
54. Grants
55. HCC Exceptions
56. HCP Hospitality and Travel
57. HCP Interactions
58. HIPAA
59. Insider Trading 
60. Interactions with Patients, Caregivers, and Patient Organizations
61. Investigator Initiated Studies
62. Investigator Interactions
63. Issue Escalation 
64. Joint Interactions with Population Health Decision Makers 
65. Managing Compliance Concerns 
66. Market Research 
67. Medical Information Requests 
68. Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Interactions 
69. MLR Review
70. Off-Label Promotion 
71. Patient Advocacy and Patient Groups 
72. Patient Support Programs 
73. Planning, Targeting, and Incentive Compensation
74. Pre-Approval Promotional Activities 
75. Prescription Drug Marketing Act 
76. Pricing, Contracting, and Discounts 
77. Privacy
78. Product Training 
79. Promotional Activities
80. Publications: Authorship and Content 
81. Reimbursement Assistance 
82. Reporting Concerns 
83. Requests for Funding 
84. Risk Assessment
85. Risk Management 
86. Sales Compensation and Rewards 
87. Samples and Free Goods 
88. Scientific Discussion and Exchange 
89. Seven Elements of an Effective Compliance Program 
90. Sexual Harassment 
91. Social Media
92. Speaker Programs 
93. Sponsorships
94. State Transparency 
95. Supplier Diversity 
96. Third-Party Intermediaries and Distributor Interactions
97. Trade Compliance 
98. Unsolicited Requests for Medical Information 
99. Use of Company Assets
100. Value Transfers

Healthcare Compliance Experts + Training Experts

Effective HCC training requires a partner with healthcare compliance topic expertise, alongside top-tier training expertise. Our team of dedicated healthcare compliance learning consultants have helped pharmaceutical and medical device companies guide employee behavior in each of the top 100 HCC topic areas. See how.