The class would serve as a broad introduction to the law and as the introductory class to any Master’s program that may be offered by the Law School in the future. This class would address broad legal concepts such as sources of law, basic principles of contracts, dispute resolution, jury trials, and the risks of litigation.  This class would include instruction on creative problem-solving skills using the law and analytical thinking.  Finally, this class would include a leadership component.

This course provides a holistic understanding of the various aspects of the healthcare system related to sources of care, sources of payment, and regulatory and other legal systems that constrain and control the behavior of these sources and how these sources impact each other. In the lab component, students will learn methods of legal research to locate sources of health care regulations that require compliance and to collect required information. This course will include a research lab component.

This course will utilize reading materials, case studies, healthcare industry risk management scenarios and data sets provided in class to apply knowledge to specific RM and patient safety scenarios and to use critical thinking skills to solve problems which often result in harm to patients.  Through the readings and case study analysis students will learn to identify legal, ethical, administrative, compliance, risk management and patient safety issues and to reach resolutions for the problems presented, even when a clear legal response may not be available, or in the best interests of the patient. Students will also learn how principles of risk management have changed since the 1998 IOM Report and how the changes in our current health care system will further challenge both patients and providers. This report called for increased focus on systemic failures and moving away from a culture of blame to a culture of transparency and learning, utilizing an enterprise risk management model.

This course will lay the foundation for Health Care Compliance by introducing the elements of an effective compliance program, including the compliance operations and the Code of Conduct. It will progress to providing foundational knowledge regarding specific compliance issues facing the healthcare industry such as anti-kickback, Stark, False Claims Act, and civil monetary penalties, conflicts of interest and governance, billing & coding, privacy, technology, data, and security. The link between regulatory and compliance issues and quality of care will also be explored. Students will be assigned projects to demonstrate how to implement, in a specific setting, the various laws, regulations, and standards to assure organizational compliance.

This course covers the requirements for organizations that handle protected health information, especially those required by HIPAA and the HITECH Act. It will include information about which entities need to comply with laws protecting such information and to what extent.  It will focus primarily on the privacy, security, and breach response requirements of HIPAA and the information security requirements of the HITECH Act as they apply to both covered entities and business associates.

This course will consider various types of ethical issues that workers in the healthcare field may encounter, including bioethical issues and legal ethical issues that govern lawyers with whom they work.  In addition, the course will include instruction on legal and ethical issues surrounding end of life decisions. 

This course offers detailed training in helping hospitals fulfill all reporting and structural requirements for Medicare, including working with private certifying organizations and maintaining proper physician credentialing systems. 

This course provides an understanding of the requirements for properly billing third-party payers and for compliance with federal laws and regulations prohibiting healthcare fraud and abuse. This course will include instruction on preventing Medicaid and Medicare Fraud.

Each Master’s student will be required to complete a substantial written research project under the direction of a professional advisor.

This course will provide an understanding of the role and duties of public health officials in the healthcare system, the various public health regimes that require compliance, and the role of public health funding streams in achieving quality compliance for private parties. This course also provides a broad overview of health systems in other nations.  This course will include an examination of health care systems from a legal and structural perspective in nations outside of the United States.

This course examines how various employees and institutions can limit the risks to patients and risks (including risks of legal liability) to individual doctors, other medical professionals, and health care institutions and businesses. The course also explores prohibitions against self-dealing and methods used by health care institutions to identify, prioritize, and manage various risks. This course will include instruction on federal laws and regulations meant to prohibit self-dealing and prevention of inadvertent compliance failure.

Understanding of the requirements for properly billing third-party payers and survey of federal laws and regulations that prohibit healthcare fraud and self-dealing.

This course introduces healthcare professionals enrolled in the Law School's Health law master's or certificate programs to basic leadership principles, and to the hard and soft skills needed to effectively lead healthcare organizations.

This course examines contracts that are common in health care. Examples include contracts between insurance companies and patients, insurance companies and hospitals, hospitals and employees, and among multiple health care providers. The expectation is that the student will be able to understand these contracts, anticipate areas that are likely to be covered by them, and understand when they should be concerned about minimum insurance market requirements, antitrust, and nonprofit taxation issues that could arise.