Health Care Law

Catalog description

7v16. 2-3 hours. The 2 credit course covers pandemics and public health; medical malpractice by physicians; health care institutions¿ liability for physicians¿ malpractice and their own liability; physician-hospital relationships related to credentialing; waste, fraud, and abuse; and life and death decisionmaking. A 3 credit course would provide additional coverage of the physician-hospital relationship including physician non-competes; more on hospitals, including tax issues; more on licensing and credentialing (by state agencies, for example), and perhaps ERISA (I used to teach ERISA and then added pandemics to the syllabus, and dropped ERISA). A 3 credit course might also add coverage of drug and device regulation.