Individual Membership Information

About the Health Ethics Trust

In response to growing ethics and compliance concerns in healthcare, the Council of Ethical Organizations formed the Health Ethics Trust in 1995. The purpose of the Trust is to assist healthcare organizations and individuals committed to ethical and legal conduct through educational programs, research, and shared best practices. The Health Ethics Trust sponsors a full agenda of ethics and compliance activities – such as the annual Healthcare Best Compliance Practices Forum. Trust members also have full privileges as members of the Council of Ethical Organizations.


HET Individual Membership

The HET individual membership program is designed for those leading a one-person compliance function and for those whose employer will not support an organizational membership. The Trust’s individual membership has shown rapid growth in recent years because we have worked hard to ensure the value of individual membership. If a member attends even one program in a given membership year, the cost of individual membership will be fully recovered.


Individual Membership Benefits Include:

• Priority participation in courses and programs and significantly reduced tuition. If a member attends even one program in a given membership year, the cost of membership will be fully recovered. Trust courses and programs are offered in a limited enrollment, vendor-free format to ensure objectivity and the highest quality learning experience. The Trust offers the Healthcare Compliance Certified Professional (CCP) Course, the Certified Compliance Executive (CCE) Course, the Best Compliance Practices Forum, the Hotline Conference, Designing&Leading Compliance Training Programs: Train-the-Trainer Program, Compliance Investigations, Research Compliance Intensive, Coding & Systems Course, the Clinical Ethics & Compliance Programs Course, Legal Issues Boot Camp and other courses introduced to meet member needs.

• Compliance Briefings Emails. These email briefings will consist of concise substantive analyses of pertinent compliance developments as well as special opportunities available only to HET members.

• Periodic advising on ethics and compliance issues through email and/or telephone consultations with Council professional staff. While extensive advising of this sort can be arranged on a retainer basis, we try to answer every occasional member question at no charge.

• Access to members only web site. The members only site will include, among other things, electronic versions of current issues of the Pastin Report, selected presentations from the Healthcare Best Compliance Practices Forum and Course Program binders, and special resources (e.g. model policies).

• Free or reduced fee participation in quarterly audioconferences ($195 - $780 value) on specific compliance topics. These audioconferences will include presentations by Council professional staff and outside experts on timely compliance issues and timely topics.

• Peer consulting - an advisory service in which leading compliance officers from member organizations serve as advisors or reviewers for your organization.

• Free or discounted access to the Trust’s Benchmark Resources, including model Code of Conduct provisions, The Hotline Handbook, The Compliance Case Study Library, Best Practice Standards and Practices, Model Healthcare Compliance (Integrity) Plan, and briefings on current compliance issues. • Discounts on special products such as videos, training materials, and publications.

• Application fees are waived for the Health Ethics Trust’s Certified Compliance Professional (CCP) status. Evaluation is independently administered by leading compliance professionals.

• Application fees for submissions to Best Practices review process are waived.

Individual Membership Fees

Individual Membership is $300 ($250 renewal) per year. The rate for a two-year membership is $500.00 ($450 renewal).

*Renewal membership rates are available only for renewals paid in full prior to expiration of current membership.

If you are paying for your membership in conjunction with a conference tuition, the annual fee is $200 or $400 for two years.

For further information and the application please download the following pages.