Health Law Syllabus Winter 2023
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ELR/HSAD 616
Health Law
3c-0l-3sh
Winter 2023
Section 801
I.
Course Description
Prerequisites:
None
This course focuses on legal language, tort law, legal issues and legal sanctions of state
and national health care laws as applied to individuals and organizations. Through
lectures, discussions, readings, and presentations students will learn to solve problems of
health care administration within the current health care legal system and develop an
understanding of the legal issues present within the current health field.
II.
Course Objectives
Students completing this course will be able to:
1.
Interpret the legal terms associated with health care law.
2.
Summarize the impact that government and the legal system has on the structure
of the health care system in the United States.
3.
Examine the concept of tort law as it relates to a health care administrator’s duty
and responsibilities to clients and staff.
4.
Appraise the major legal issues facing health care administrators in terms of the legal
effects on the delivery of health care.
5.
Assess complex legal health care issues.
III.
Required Books and Readings
Furrow, B. R., Greaney, T. L., Johnson, S. H., Jost, T. S., & Schwartz, R. L., Clark, B. R.,
Brown, E. C., Gatter, R., King, J. S., Pendo, E. (2018). Health law, cases, materials and
problems (Abridged 8th ed.). St. Paul, MN:
West Academic Publishing.
IV.
Evaluation Methods
Evaluation will be defined as follows:
5%
Discussion Posts
20%
Research Paper
25%
First Assessment
25%
Second Assessment
25%
Third Assessment
Grading will be by percentiles (A=90-100%, B=80-89%, etc…)
The deadline for submitting course requirements is the due date and time specified on the
syllabus unless modified by the instructor.
Assignments will be uploaded electronically
into the Assignment folder in D2L for submission.
Assignments submitted after the
deadline will be accepted but will be penalized one letter grade (10%) except in cases of
serious personal illness or injury or other unusual circumstances discussed with the
instructor in advance.
Except for bona fide emergencies or unusual circumstances
requiring arrangements mutually agreed upon between the student and instructor in
advance of the due date, no assignment will be accepted for evaluation once graded
assignments have been returned to the class.
The content of these assignments must be the student's own work. Collaboration on these
writing assignments will not be tolerated and plagiarism will be dealt with harshly and in
accordance with the University’s policy on Academic Integrity.
The three
assessments
will be based on the materials covered in the week preceding the
due date.
In other words, the first assessment covers week one materials, the second
assessment covers week two materials, and the week three assessment covers week
three’s materials.
All assignments are designed for the purpose of assessing the student’s understanding of
assigned readings and cases from the course.
While students may, of course, read
materials other than those assigned in the course, outside materials (unless assigned by
the instructor) may not be used to support responses to scenarios and questions posed as
any part of a course assignment, including the final exam, even if properly cited.
An
Internet search using key words will yield cases or materials that may or may not be
relevant, and in many cases will yield an old case that has been overturned or is no longer
relevant for some other reason.
Because of that concern, and because there isn’t time for
the instructor to assess the status of cases or materials not covered in the course during
the grading process, no credit will be given for the portions of any student submissions
based on such outside materials.
Also, as with any good academic writing, it is expected
that even any course materials used will be summarized in the student’s own words
except where the precise phrase or wording used by a court/author is essential.
Put
another way, it is improper and unacceptable to copy and paste substantial portions of the
book or of a covered case (that one has located in an electronic source) as all or part of a
response to a graded assignment for this course, even if properly cited.
While academic
integrity may be debated with regard to the wholesale importation of properly cited
materials written by third parties, an essential part of the learning process in this course is
the reading and synthesizing of what is stated in the book, and then summarizing it in the
student’s own words in response to questions and issues presented for graded analysis.
One
discussion
question will be posted for student comment each week.
Each student is
required to post one substantive response, whether as a response to another student post
or as a unique response.
The key is that it needs to be something more than “I agree with
this.”
The other element of the final grade will be a 6-page research paper based on a topic
found at kff.org.
That assignment will be issued in more detail in a separate document.
V.
Grade Breakdown
90 – 100%
=
A
80 – 89%
=
B
70 – 79%
=
C
Below 70%
=
F
VI.
Detailed Course Outline
Date
Topic
December 21-27
Legal System Basics
Chapter 19 – Public Health
Chapter 2 - Quality Control Regulation: Licensing Health
Care Professionals
Chapter 3 – Quality Control Regulation of Health Care
Institutions
(read only pages 59-67)
Chapter 4 - The Professional-Patient Relationship
Chapter 5 - Liability of Health Care Professionals
(read only pages 155-168)
Chapter 6 - Liability of Health Care Institutions
First Discussion Post Due by December 27 at the latest.
First Assessment Due in D2L Assignments December 30
at 11:30 PM.
December 28-January 4
Chapter 7 – Discrimination and Unequal Treatment in
Health Care
(read only pages 261-280)
Chapter 8 – Employee Retirement Income Security Act
(read only pages 309-327)
Chapter 10 – The Regulation of Insurance and Managed
Care
Chapter 11 - Public Health Care Financing Programs:
Medicare and Medicaid
(read only pages 479-527)
Chapter 12 - Professional Relationships in Health Care
Enterprises
Second Discussion Post due by January 4 at the latest.
Second Assessment Due in D2L Assignments January 7
at 11:30 PM.
January 5 to January 12
Chapter 13 - The Structure of the Health Care Enterprise
Chapter 14 - Fraud and Abuse
(read only pages 653-675)
Chapter 15 – Antitrust
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