Certificate Requirements

This 15 credit certificate course consists of five core courses. While no particular substantive knowledge or background is required, students entering this Program will likely have relevant professional/educational training and/or experience. Thus, the curriculum builds upon student knowledge gained from pre-existing experience, and offers the opportunity of advanced coursework from several disciplines. There are no prerequisites in the program.

The following are the required courses:

Regulation of Medical Industry

Acquaints students with laws regulating the healthcare market-place. Explores federal and state regulations bearing upon health-care transactions and practices as well as risk identification requiring analysis and corrective actions.

Compliance Ethics and Controls

Covers legal/operational issues arising as entities conduct self-re-views, internal investigations and self-disclosure. Focuses upon typical compliance plan organization, operations and on-going "compliance assurance reviews".

Regulation of Business Conduct

Explores core elements of business regulation. Topics include practical legal restrictions/penalties for non-compliance, ethical decision-making and avoidance of liability. Focuses upon compliance-related regulatory and disclosure rules and laws applicable to public companies, private entities, not-for-profit entities and municipalities.

Interviewing and Investigation

Examines methodologies for internal investigations such as work plan development, interviewing methods, presentation of evidence, organization and review of records during routine compliance re-views and targeted "root cause analysis".

Forensic Financial Investigation

Prepares students to apply methods of discovering irregularities in book and records. Focuses upon financial investigative techniques for tracing funds transfers, verification of paper record trails, testing, extrapolation formulas used to calculate overpayments, etc.