Health Law

Professor: Christina Ho.

Health law addresses a constantly evolving field of practices that have emerged in response to unique market and regulatory dynamics.  This course will provide an overview of the major systems of legal rules governing access, financing, organization, and quality in the US health care system.  Throughout the term, students will explore the roles of patients, payers, providers, and federal and state governments within the fundamental framework established by the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as well as in the context of the many-layered legal regimes shaping our health care system even prior to the ACA. Because the practice of health law occurs in a rapidly changing legal and policy environment, this course aims to give the student not only a solid grounding in the various legal regimes as they address health care in the US currently, but also facility with the policy arguments that they will use and encounter in their client advocacy, and will shape the health care system of tomorrow.