Health Law for Managers

Catalog description

This course examines how health law and regulations affect health care systems so that administrators and executives can proactively plan to avoid pitfalls that impede operational efficiencies, quality of care delivered and organizational profitability. By presenting a wide range of legal issues encountered in health care, this course is designed to equip students with an understanding of the legal environment in which health care services are provided and to develop skills in analyzing many of the current legal and ethical issues facing health care practitioners, administrators and other decision-makers.