Health Law (LAW-640-001)
Lindsay Wiley
Meets: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (Tu) - Warren - Room N100C
Enrolled: 20 / Limit: 65
Notices
This course satisfies the Health Care Compliance Certificate.
Description
This course covers the law of health care delivery and financing in the United States with a focus on improving the quality of and access to health care while controlling costs and ensuring respect for individual autonomy and dignity. Topics include: civil liability of health care providers and payers; regulatory and market-based approaches to improving the quality of health care delivery; legal obligations of individual and institutional health care providers to provide care regardless of ability to pay; regulation of private health insurers and self-insuring employers; and Medicare and Medicaid eligibility, coverage, administration, payment, and appeals.
This course does not cover the law of health information privacy or health care fraud and abuse. These very important topics are covered in other WCL courses, which any student interested in practicing health care law should take.
For Fall 2021, this course will be taught in a hybrid model. Students will complete 90 minutes of asynchronous content each week and participate in a 90-minute live session each week.
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First Class Readings
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Syllabus
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