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Students who earn a compliance certificate will have the knowledge and skills necessary to work in a compliance position for a health care entity. Students will understand the various governmental entities which govern the U.S. health system and regulate health care entities. Students will begin to understand the role of law and the legal profession in that system. Students will develop skills necessary to help health care providers and entities comply with a variety of dynamic legal requirements. This certificate does not qualify a student to take a bar examination or prepare a student for the practice of law.

Admission Requirements 

Successful completion of undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited institution or the equivalent.

Certificate Requirements (15 Hours)

Required Courses (9 Hours)

• LAWH 700 - Legal Foundations of the Health Care System I  *
• LAWH 701 - Legal Foundations of the Health Care System II  
• LAWH 702 - Legal Foundations of Health Care System Lab  
• LAWH 716 - Medicare Compliance for Medical Facilities  

*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 3 additional hours of electives.

Elective Courses (6 Hours)

Selected from the following:

• LAWH 722 - Risk Management  
• LAWH 724 - Certificates of Need  
• LAWH 732 - Medicare Quality Compliance  
• LAWH 734 - Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Compliance  
• LAWH 736 - Third Party Billing Compliance  
• LAWH 738 (3) HIPAA and Electronic Medical Records Compliance
• LAWH 740 - Antitrust Compliance