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HIT 280 - Advanced Healthcare Compliance & Regulatory Concepts


This course is an advanced study of compliance programs, fraud and abuse laws, reporting requirements, documentation integrity, privacy exceptions, credentialing, audits, and regulatory alignment.

Prerequisite- Corequisite
Prerequisite: HIT 222 Law & Ethics for Health Information Management, HIT 236 Quality Improvement & Risk Management, and HIT 244 Social Determinants of Health and Health Equity

Credits: 3
Hours
3 Lecture Hours
Course Profile
 

Learning Outcomes of the Course:

Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:

  1. Identify legislative-regulatory-policy alignment and properly cite regulatory sources.
  2. Participate in evaluating a healthcare compliance plan.
  3. Differentiate fraud and abuse and identify reporting requirements.
  4. Analyze data to identify fraud, abuse, and documentation integrity issues and recommend corrective actions.
  5. Identify required reporting elements for vital statistics, notifiable diseases, suspected abuse, and deaths; apply privacy exceptions.
  6. Query practitioner data for credentialing and regulatory compliance.
  7. Conduct audits, compile findings, and produce accreditation-aligned compliance reports.