The Basics of Professional Regulatory Law with an Emphasis on Health Professions: Licensure and Certification - What's the Difference?

Why Should You Attend:

Identifying and understanding different professional health care practices is a daunting task in today’s multidisciplinary health care environment. It brings together a number of diverse professionals working in a common setting such as a doctor’s office or health care clinic. Yet individual state laws vary from profession to profession and from state to state. While these laws are enacted for the protection of the public, they impose significantly different regulation on these professionals, and often in very different ways.

Find out how to understand and navigate different professions which require specific education, training, and experience. This presentation looks at this body of practice as presented from differing and conflicting state laws. It will answer confusion with a fundamental, insightful examination of licensure by the state versus certification of the individual by a private organization, which is not the government.

Erase uncertainty in this program by knowing the state’s power to regulate a given profession and by reviewing the basics of professional regulatory law.

Learning Objectives:

• Sources of legal requirements for professional licensure
• The difference between government licensure and private certification
• Educational requirements and training common to professionals
• State licensure mandates as applied to individual health care practitioners
• State agency creation and implementation of the law
• Education versus training; theoretical knowledge versus practice
• Administrative implications for the individual health care practitioner

Areas Covered in the Webinar:

• State law requirements common to health care professions
• Private certification and government licensure
• Education, training, and experience common to health professions
• Professional regulation by peers of health care practitioners

Who Will Benefit:

• Licensed health care practitioners in private practice
• Medical directors of health facilities
• Office managers and medical directors of private medical offices
• Health care law attorneys
• Corporate counsel in health care
• Health care administrators
• University faculty in health care
• Allied health professionals
• In graduate-level medical education across health care professions

Instructor Profile:

Mark R Brengelman has worked as the assigned counsel to numerous health professions licensure boards as an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Moving to private practice, he now helps private clients in health care in a wide variety of contexts.

He graduated with both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in philosophy from Emory University in Atlanta. He then earned a Juris Doctorate from the University Of Kentucky College Of Law. In 1995, he became an assistant attorney general and focused in the area of administrative and professional law where he represented multiple boards as general counsel and prosecuting attorney.

Mr. Brengelman is a frequent participant in continuing education and has been a presenter for over twenty national and state organizations and private companies, including webinars and in-person seminars. These national and state organizations include the Kentucky Bar Association, the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General, and the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute.

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