Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration

Catalog description

An in depth examination is undertaken of the legal framework within which health care is rendered. Topics addressed include the organization of health care industry, professionalism vs. commercialism, access and delivery of health care services, costs and quality of care, statutory regulation and industry sponsored controls to monitor quality/costs, anti-trust challenges, purchase of health care services, contracts, medical malpractice, right to life, definition of death, human organ allocation.