18 Mar Explain what a health care organization needs to do to comply with the law or regulation
A compliance specialist must interpret laws and regulations to evaluate the impact of legal and regulatory requirements in their health care setting. Then, they explain the application to their department and other departments in the organization.
Preparation
Assume you are in a compliance specialist role. Select 1 law or regulation to research and use for this assignment:
Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS)
Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA)
False Claims Act (FCA)
HIPAA Privacy Rule
HITECH Act
Human research protections
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010
Stark law (Physician Self-Referral Law)
Assessment Deliverable
Write a 700- to 1,050-word document executive summary for your organization’s leadership team in which you: Hint: use the following as topic headings.
Summarize the chosen law or regulation.
Describe the entity that oversees and enforces the law or regulation.
Evaluate the impact the selected law or regulation has on the health care industry.
Explain what a health care organization needs to do to comply with the law or regulation.
Explain 2 or 3 requirements of adhering to the law or regulation.
Explain the penalties for violations of the law or regulation.
Cite 3 peer-reviewed, scholarly, or similar references to support your regulatory summary.
Format citations and references according to APA guidelines. My grading questions are did the student demonstrate 7th edition APA formatting skills? Was the assignment properly formatted (title page, font, margins, headings, etc.)? Were citations used in the body of the assignment to indicate when the student used ideas based on other authors’ ideas? Were references properly formatted according to 7th edition APA guidelines?
