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Apr 29, 2024
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MHCM 5400 - Medical/Legal Issues in Healthcare Delivery
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the complex intersection of law and health systems, as well as, common legal issues encountered by healthcare leaders such as laws pertaining to professional liability, patient privacy and payment system management. It provides historical and contemporary discussions of legal issues that have, and will continue to shape medical care coordination, delivery and strategy in the United States. Legal issues regarding the healthcare organization and its trustees, administrators and medical staff are key focus points. The course investigates the legal basis of healthcare risk management in the United States to include constitutional provisions and federal statutes that influence public payment policy. It also prepares senior administrators for preventative measures in an increasingly litigious environment. It will include a general review of Stark III/IV, Office of Inspector General activities related to healthcare fraud and abuse, Sarbanes Oxley and other pertinent laws affecting federal payment and accounting practices. Major topics include state and federal regulation of healthcare providers and institutions; tort liability in the context of medical care; patient and provider rights and obligations; public and private insurance systems; and basic issues in bioethics and public health and the social forces that have shaped its historical development. Other topics may include ethical and legal challenges of telemedicine.
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