Health Law

Catalog description

This course explores the major legal frameworks that govern US healthcare at the state and federal levels with a focus on legal relationships among patients, providers, payers, and institutions. Students will examine how the law regulates these relationships through informed consent; malpractice litigation; fraud and abuse restrictions pertaining to in-kind payments for healthcare services, devices, and pharmaceuticals; and antitrust laws to curb anti-competitive practices in healthcare consolidation. In addition to exploring the role of law in regulating the healthcare system, students will consider broader biomedical ethical issues and legal principles in the delivery of healthcare, such as abortion, experimental treatments, human subject research, end-of-life decision-making, including refusal of treatment, physician-assisted suicide, and organ donation. This course will connect these topics to practical executive skills related to negotiation, evaluation of risk, & effective engagement of legal counsel at the leadership level.