HL 543 Healthcare Law and Ethics

This course provides students with an overview of law, regulation, and court decisions that affect healthcare organizations, as well as ethical underpinnings and principles that healthcare organizations follow in the delivery of services. Students analyze, evaluate, and investigate various topics on law and ethics, including, but not limited to, key federal and state laws, regulatory oversight and licensing of facilities and practitioners, credentialing requirements and processes, and cost analysis of contract law governing relationships with employed physicians and other providers. Students leave this course understanding the many complex issues and approaches to finding solutions.

Credits

3

Outcomes

1. This course will prepare students to:
2. 1. Critique the ethical principles that healthcare organizations follow in the delivery of services.
3. 2. Evaluate the legal structures and governance of healthcare organizations.
4. 3. Compare the relationship between law and ethics in healthcare.
5. 4. Investigate the legal and ethical issues in healthcare cost containment.
6. 5. Predict future changes in healthcare legal and ethical governance.