Full course description
Legal professionals and healthcare administrators, this course is your opportunity to gain the training needed to impact health law and healthcare policy. Boost your career with the skills to navigate the legal and ethical challenges in health law, at a time of rapid transformation.
Through the on-demand modules, you’ll become familiar with healthcare system regulation and participation rules, compliance requirements, privacy protection with advances in health technology, and billing and coding compliance.
Law and Regulation of Healthcare Modules
At your pace, you will cover the following areas:
- Overview of Law (with healthcare focus)
- Federal vs. state
- Criminal vs. civil
- Types of law (common vs. statutory vs. administrative)
- Branches of government
- Regulatory bodies for healthcare (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of Inspector General, Department of Justice-federal departments)
- Confidentiality
- HIPAA and Part 2 (substance use disorders)
- State-level confidentiality
- Fraud and Abuse
- Stark law
- Anti-Kickback Statute
- False Claims Act
- Decision-making
- Informed consent
- Healthcare battery and false imprisonment
- Advance directives
- Medical malpractice
- Healthcare Funding
- Health insurance (Medicare/Medicaid, private payer)
- Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
Course length: Approximately 8 hours
Course format: Online asynchronous
Requirements: No educational requirements to enroll in program
This online training is presented by subject matter experts, who will provide participants with all course materials.
“Law and Regulation of Healthcare” is available as part of the Health Law for Professionals program. After completing the four courses of the program, you will earn a certificate.