Course Overview:
*Prerequisites: Medical Terminology, Anatomy & Physiology & Disease 1, and Anatomy & Physiology & Disease 2
This course serves as a brief introduction to compliance issues that will pave the way for other compliance discussions later in the program. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive course.
This course will equip the students with knowledge knowledge and understanding of compliance organizations, what they do, the purpose and effectiveness of a compliance plan, FWA (fraud, waste and abuse), how to be an "ethical coder", and how to improve clinical documentation.
Required Textbook: TBD