Conducting a Behavioral Health Risk Assessment

Tim Timmons Following 25 years as a hospital financial manager and administrator, Tim has spent the past eighteen years assisting behavioral health organizations, hospitals, physician practices and home health agencies with the implementation of ethics and compliance programs. The initial emphasis of these programs was Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse, but they have since been expanded to address the implementation of CCO and other contractual obligations, NCQA standards, the HIPAA Privacy and Security standards, confidentiality requirements associated with substance abuse treatment, and many other statutes and regulations.

He has presented on compliance related topics at national conferences sponsored by the National Council for Behavioral Health, the Health Care Compliance Association, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the HIPAA Summit and numerous other organizations. He is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional, a Certified HIPAA Professional, a Certified HIPAA Security Specialist and is Certified in Healthcare Privacy Compliance. He currently serves as the corporate integrity officer of GOBHI.