Section Information
Section Description Provided by Instructor
This is a survey course covering legal issues in health care delivery, financing, and the responsibilities of health care professionals to patients. The course offers students an introduction to a subject that constitutes one-seventh of the U.S. economy and is crucial to all citizens. The course will include traditional areas of interest including quality of care, liability of health care professionals and institutions, state and federal regulation of the health care industry, insurance and managed care, access to health care, medical malpractice and tort reform, and fraud and abuse, as well as more emerging legal areas pertaining to rights to care and to refuse care, and life and death decision-making. There will also be an analysis of the new health care enactment, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as well as legal and Constitutional challenges to the law.
Semester
Spring 2013
Section
001
Schedule
TR 1:20p - 2:40p
Location
JGH 807
Points
3.0
Method of Evaluation
Exam
(Class)
J.D. Writing Credit
No
Course Limitations
Pre-requisite Courses
None
Co-requisite Courses
None
Recommended Courses
None
Other Limitations
None
