Law, Ethics, and Policy

Catalog description

Section information text: The rapidly evolving health care system presents the health care administrator with complex challenges and risks. Health care administrators must possess the skills needed to assess external and internal health care polices to influence organizational design and delivery of healthcare services. Students assess and discuss key policy initiatives from the diverse perspectives of policymakers, interest groups, and other stakeholders. Course work focuses on required knowledge of laws and regulations developed by policymakers that impact the health care organizations and students will review key laws that govern patient care delivery, employee relations, contracts and fraud. Emphasis will be placed on legal and regulatory failure points that administrators must avoid in designing and implementing policies and practices within the health care organization. To help frame these concepts, students examine the ethical underpinnings and principles that health care organizations and administrators follow in the delivery of services to patients.