Advance Your Career with a Health Care Compliance Certificate
This post-bachelor’s certificate is for health care professionals and continuing students who want to advance their career, mitigate risk for employers and navigate an ever-changing, health care landscape. Students will gain an advanced understanding of health care systems, applicable laws and regulations in the United States, and legal risks inherent to the field.
Taught by accomplished health care professionals and attorneys, this 18-hour certificate is 100% online, on-demand, and has no GRE or LSAT requirement.
This certificate is ideal for:
- Hospital and public health administrators
- Health care compliance officers
- Health insurance compliance officers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Physician assistants (PA)
- Pharmacists
- Physical and occupational therapists
- Attorneys and paralegals
- Athletic trainers
- Students interested in careers in the health care field
Curriculum
Students will take 18 hours of required coursework.
Required Courses (18 hours)
The class would serve as a broad introduction to the law and as the introductory class to any Master’s program that may be offered by the Law School in the future. This class would address broad legal concepts such as sources of law, basic principles of contracts, dispute resolution, jury trials, and the risks of litigation. This class would include instruction on creative problem-solving skills using the law and analytical thinking. Finally, this class would include a leadership component.
This course provides a holistic understanding of the various aspects of the healthcare system related to sources of care, sources of payment, and regulatory and other legal systems that constrain and control the behavior of these sources and how these sources impact each other. In the lab component, students will learn methods of legal research to locate sources of health care regulations that require compliance and to collect required information. This course will include a research lab component.
This course covers the requirements for organizations that handle protected health information, especially those required by HIPAA and the HITECH Act. It will include information about which entities need to comply with laws protecting such information and to what extent. It will focus primarily on the privacy, security, and breach response requirements of HIPAA and the information security requirements of the HITECH Act as they apply to both covered entities and business associates.
This course offers detailed training in helping hospitals fulfill all reporting and structural requirements for Medicare, including working with private certifying organizations and maintaining proper physician credentialing systems.
This course provides an understanding of the requirements for properly billing third-party payers and for compliance with federal laws and regulations prohibiting healthcare fraud and abuse. This course will include instruction on preventing Medicaid and Medicare Fraud.
This course examines how various employees and institutions can limit the risks to patients and risks (including risks of legal liability) to individual doctors, other medical professionals, and health care institutions and businesses. The course also explores prohibitions against self-dealing and methods used by health care institutions to identify, prioritize, and manage various risks. This course will include instruction on federal laws and regulations meant to prohibit self-dealing and prevention of inadvertent compliance failure.
*This requirement may be waived if a student has a J.D. degree or equivalent prior legal experience; in substitution, the student will be required to take both LAWH 710 and LAWH737.
Comprehensive Assessment
All master’s candidates must complete a comprehensive assessment to demonstrate knowledge acquired in coursework and apply it practically. The completion of LAWH 755 Directed Independent Study, which requires completion of a paper or equivalent project, will satisfy this requirement. Projects must reflect significant work addressing a hypothetical or real-world issue involving legal compliance or health law or policy.
Admissions
- Resume/CV
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
- Undergraduate degree performance
- GRE or LSAT scores (optional)
- Statement of interest in the program
- Two recommendations from professional or academic references
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