| Program Detail |
: This course will allow the learner to examine how their profession relates to American health care law regulating financial, bioethical, patient care and informational access issues. At the level of the patient physician relationship subjects such as malpractice, informed consent, duty to treat and right to die will be explored. Within the patient state relationship, public health laws, reproductive rights, bioethics and genetics will be examined. At the level of provider institutions and the state, areas of managed care, individual and institutional licensure, anti trust, cost containment, staffing, fraud, mental health law, Medicare, Medicaid and health care reform will be reviewed. The learner will acquire a basic understanding of how health care law and regulation applies to the world of providers, receivers and payers. |
