HIM 600 is SNHU’s Managing Compliance course. It centers on managing compliance for health information leaders: the elements of an effective compliance program, the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the physician self-referral law, documentation integrity, coding and modifier audits, risk assessment, sampling, overpayment refunds, self-disclosure, corrective action, training and a culture in which staff report concerns. Every module below opens a full sample paper or takes a free request for one; searches like "him 600 module 3", "HIM600 sample paper" and "HIM 600 milestone example" land on this page.
What HIM 600 is really about
HIM 600 is the compliance course of the MS Health Information Management at SNHU, and its graders look for plans that rest on evidence from the organization's own records. Strong work names the specific law or rule behind each risk, measures error rates from an actual record review, assigns owners and deadlines to every corrective step and explains how the organization will know the fix held.
Every sample here follows a composite compliance lead at Sawtooth Bone and Joint, a physician-owned orthopedic and spine practice with 38 physicians, an in-office MRI suite, physical therapy and an ambulatory surgery center. Its share of top-level office visits roughly doubled after 2021, almost every same-day joint injection carries a separately billed visit, a brace supplier has offered free fitting staff and the group has never run a formal coding audit. The practice and its staff are illustrative.
What HIM 600’s modules ask for
Across ten modules, HIM 600 typically asks for discussions and a journal on compliance programs, documentation integrity and reporting culture, short papers on the fraud and abuse laws and on auditing, a closing reflection and a final project built in milestones: a patient record analysis, a compliance program structure and a response and corrective action plan, brought together in a coding compliance program proposal.
Where students lose points in HIM 600
The most common HIM 600 deduction is a compliance plan that recites the seven program elements without tying any of them to a risk the organization actually has. The second is mixing up the laws, treating a self-referral question as a kickback question or describing the False Claims Act as requiring intent to defraud. Graders also mark down audits with no sample size or error rate, corrective actions with no owner and training plans that never say how understanding will be checked. The fix is to start from the record review and build every element on what it found.
The HIM 600 drawers
HIM 600 Module 1 Discussion example
An opening discussion in which the composite compliance lead at a Boise orthopedic and spine group describes a practice that has a compliance binder but no program, points to office visit levels that doubled after 2021 and a brace supplier's offer of free fitting staff, and argues that a program exists to find problems before outsiders do, drawing on the federal general compliance program guidance and Kesselheim and Studdert's study of whistleblower cases. Full sample paper, read it free.
HIM 600 Module 2 Fraud and Abuse Short Paper example
A short paper that tests the federal false claims, kickback and Stark self-referral rules against three live risks at a composite Boise orthopedic group, office visit levels that doubled after 2021, a brace supplier's offer of free fitting staff and an in-office MRI suite, explaining what each law requires, how they overlap and what the practice should do now, drawing on federal compliance guidance, Baker on MRI ownership and Kesselheim and Studdert on whistleblower cases. Full sample paper, read it free.
HIM 600 Module 3 Final Project Milestone One example
The first milestone of the HIM 600 final project reviews 60 records at a composite Boise orthopedic group, 40 top-level office visits and 20 same-day injection visits billed with modifier 25, and finds 45% of the top-level visits and 55% of the modifier 25 claims unsupported, along with copied exam text, missing laterality and time claims without a total, then traces the errors to their causes, drawing on Balusu and colleagues on orthopedic coding education, Burks and colleagues on outpatient billing errors and Tsou and colleagues on copy and paste. Full sample paper, read it free.
HIM 600 Module 4 Discussion example
A discussion in which the composite Boise compliance lead looks at an injection note that still describes a knee effusion the assessment says is gone, explains why copied text is a billing problem as well as a safety one, and proposes a narrow policy, permitted for history and medication lists, banned for examination findings unless re-verified, with audits of matching text, drawing on Wang and colleagues on where note text comes from, Tsou and colleagues on safe copy and paste practice and federal compliance guidance on auditing. Full sample paper, read it free.
HIM 600 Module 5 Final Project Milestone Two example
Milestone Two turns a composite Boise orthopedic group's record review into a program structure: a compliance officer reporting to the managing partners with a standing committee, seven written policies each tied to an audit finding, role-based training with a coding test, a reporting line with a non-retaliation promise and consistent consequences, drawing on federal general compliance guidance, Balusu and colleagues on coding education and Kaptein on ethical culture. Full sample paper, read it free.
HIM 600 Module 6 Auditing Short Paper example
A short paper that builds the audit plan for a composite Boise orthopedic group: a risk assessment that scores eight billing areas by likelihood and impact, a mix of prospective and retrospective reviews, probe samples of ten claims per clinician, the jump to a statistically valid sample when probes fail, outlier screens on visit levels and billed hours and a reporting rhythm to the committee, drawing on federal compliance guidance, the federal RAT-STATS sampling tool and Fang and Gong on billed hours as a sign of overbilling. Full sample paper, read it free.
HIM 600 Module 7 Final Project Milestone Three example
Milestone Three sets out how a composite Boise orthopedic group responds to its record review: refunding the 29 unsupported claims, a counsel-guided decision on looking back to 2021, the line between a routine refund and a self-disclosure, a corrective action plan with eight actions, owners, deadlines and measures, and a re-audit to prove the fix held, drawing on federal compliance guidance, the federal self-disclosure protocol and Burks and colleagues on feedback. Full sample paper, read it free.
HIM 600 Module 8 Journal example
A journal entry in which the composite Boise compliance lead learns that a senior coder had noticed inflated visit levels two years before the audit and said nothing, examines why, from a belief that speaking up was pointless to fear of the surgeons who generate the revenue, and resolves to change what happens after someone speaks, drawing on Morrison and Milliken on organizational silence, Kaptein on ethical culture and Kesselheim and Studdert on insiders who take concerns outside. Full sample paper, read it free.
HIM 600 Module 9 Final Project example
The HIM 600 final project brings the milestones together in a coding compliance program proposal for a composite Boise orthopedic group: the evidence from the record review, program goals, an independent officer and committee, policies, tested training, a risk-ranked audit cycle, the response to findings, an 18-month timeline, a first-year budget of about $163,000 and six measures of success, drawing on federal compliance guidance, Balusu and colleagues, Burks and colleagues, Fang and Gong and Kaptein. Full sample paper, read it free.
HIM 600 Module 10 Reflection example
Looking back on HIM 600, the composite Boise compliance lead admits to having believed the practice's coding was clean because no one had complained, then describes what changed: measuring before reassuring, treating a finding as a duty to repay and fix, and judging a program by whether people speak up, with Balusu and colleagues on confidence that outruns accuracy, Morrison and Milliken on silence and federal compliance guidance, and a plan to report the first re-audit honestly whatever it shows. Full sample paper, read it free.
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Using a HIM 600 sample the right way
Read an HIM 600 sample by checking whether each risk is tied to a named law and to evidence from the record review, whether audit results carry sample sizes and error rates and whether every corrective step has an owner and a deadline. For HIM 600, bring the prompt, your organization's setting or the course case and the rubric; a first custom sample is returned free in 24-48h.
HIM 600 questions, answered
What does HIM 600 cover?
Compliance program elements, fraud and abuse laws, documentation and coding integrity, auditing and monitoring, overpayments, corrective action, training and compliance culture.
Do I need to know coding for HIM 600?
A working knowledge of code sets and modifiers helps, since the record analysis judges whether documentation supports the codes billed.
What makes a strong HIM 600 paper?
Risks tied to specific laws, error rates from a real sample, corrective actions with owners and deadlines and a plan for proving the fix held.