Health Law and Policy Certificate for Healthcare Organizations

The future of healthcare in the US will be shaped by factors like a heightened concern for public health, the continued adoption of value-based care models, efforts to expand insurance coverage, high-profile mergers, and new technology for collecting and managing patient data. Each of these changes has crucial legal implications for organizations that already operate in one of the nation’s most regulated industries. Meeting the challenges ahead requires collaborative efforts from both lawyers and healthcare professionals who can navigate state and federal requirements to empower functions such as care delivery, administration, and finance.

The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University is pleased to offer a customized, continuing education program in Health Law and Policy for hospitals and healthcare organizations in the New York metro area. Participants will receive practical education in addressing these crucial policy and compliance challenges through a customizable, career-oriented curriculum that introduces healthcare employees to essential concepts and current issues. Upon completion of the program, students will earn a non-credit bearing Certificate in Health Law and Policy from Pace University’s Elisabeth Haub School of Law and a Digital Badge (from Credly).

The Health Law and Policy Certificate program curriculum will be based on the Law School’s Advanced Certificate in Health Law and Policy, but tailored to the individual needs of an organization’s employees—including physicians, nurses, compliance and risk management staff, and in-house legal professionals. The program will be offered in five 8–12 week modules (including final assessments in each module) that are determined based on the organization’s educational goals. Program participants must commit two hours per week to live class instruction, which will be delivered by Haub Law Faculty in-person, virtually or in a hybrid format, depending on the organization’s preference and location.

Haub Law requires a minimum enrollment of 15 participants per organization and will provide discounted group pricing. Participants will be enrolled as students through Pace University, receive a Pace email address and University ID, and have access to other benefits of student enrollment.

Sample curriculum for hospitals and healthcare organizations:

• Health Law in America: Survey of most important laws and regulations that govern the delivery of health care in America, including the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, and Medicaid, Anti-Fraud and kickback laws, and others.
• Public Health Law: Key issues in public health, including limitations on the government’s police power in protecting public health, and discussion of specific threats such as COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, obesity, tobacco, addiction, cancer, drug-resistant bacteria, and bioterrorism.
• Bioethics and Medical Malpractice: Exploration of bioethics issues such as abortion, genetics, surrogate parenting, physician-assisted suicide, and organ donation and transplantation, and medical malpractice as a tool for enforcing the appropriate standard of health care.
• Health Care Compliance: Practical approaches to identifying and resolving health care compliance problems arising out of health care regulations (including privacy and security) and methods for demonstrating compliance.
• End of Life Seminar: Policy and legal discussion of end of life decision-making, advance directives, right to refuse or terminate medical treatment, Aid in Dying legislation, palliative care, and more.

Haub Law’s Health Law and Policy curriculum

To request a consultation for your organization, please contact our Admissions Office:

Phone: (914) 422-4210
Email: admissions@law.pace.edu