Be prepared to accept the challenges of laws regulating the healthcare industry. If you are a healthcare administrator, help your employees gain the knowledge to keep your facility or practice penalty free.
GateWay has an online certificate program for healthcare administrators, managers and others with supervisory responsibilities to address the rapidly changing healthcare compliance regulations.
What you will learn:
- Legal mandates and ethical considerations for healthcare corporate regulatory compliance programs.
- The Seven Essential Elements of an effective compliance program.
- Laws governing abusive and fraudulent healthcare practices and billing of services.
- The roles played by various governmental agencies in regulating and enforcing healthcare laws.
- Laws governing the use and security of patient Protected Health Information (PHI) and electronic Protected Health Information, (ePHI) as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH).
- Application of the laws and principles to create a corporate compliance program.
Interested students should first contact Ahmad Pardazi, Program Director, for information and enrollment assistance. You will need to have satisfactory completion of college level English 101 or equivalent as shown by transcript. Once student eligibility is verified, students will be provided a permission number and directed to register online or by phone with the College Admissions and Records Office.
All online classes must be taken in sequence as a cohort, a group of students who go through the program together. Classes are four, eight or 12 weeks long. Students in a cohort will be able to complete the certificate within 15 months.
A new cohort will begin approximately every six months based on new student enrollment.