Health Care and Organizations

2-3 Credit Hours

This course will provide an overview of our health care delivery system and the legal issues arising in connection with the evolving efforts of government and the private sector to make it more affordable, efficient and effective. These legal issues will be explored in the context of prevalent and emerging organizational structures for health care delivery and finance, with an emphasis on models for payer, hospital and physician provider business relationships and structures, managed healthcare contracting and network development and joint ventures among providers at various levels within the health care delivery system. Federal and state developments under the umbrella of federal Health Care Reform legislation will be considered. Students will not only be afforded the opportunity to understand significant substantive components of health law (including the impact of existing and developing federal and state regulations), but also will become familiar with current industry and professional responses to current trends and be exposed to a variety of organizational and transactional health care delivery and finance structural models in use and under consideration.