Mr. Young is Certified in HealthCare Compliance (CHC) by the Health Care Compliance Board of the Health Care Compliance Association. He is a compliance professional with over 20 years of experience in laboratory compliance issues and over 40 years in clinical laboratories . He is an HEW-certified medical technologist, former chairperson of the CLMA Health-Care Policy Committee (HCPC), and former member of the Medicare Billing Issues Committee (MBIC) for CLMA. He is currently serving as the laboratory representative on the Carrier Advisory Committee for Arizona and is serving as an alternate representative for CLMA on the Pathology Coding Caucus. He has worked directly with government representatives in shaping laboratory legislation. Mr. Young has contributed articles to Vantage Point, Laboratory Industry Report, and other health-care publications, he is a member of the Board of Advisors for Laboratory Compliance Insider and writes a regular bimonthly column for the Journal of Health Care Compliance. During nearly 40 years as a laboratory professional, Mr. Young has had the opportunity to work in or with every kind of laboratory setting. Mr. Young is currently working as an independent consultant specializing in regulatory matters and the development of compliance officers and programs for clinical laboratories. He speaks locally and nationally on health-care compliance, regulatory issues, Medicare and Medicaid billing and other laboratory-specific topics.