To: Students registered for Legal Iss Relevnt Hlthcare Adm - GMU HHS 750 X01, Wednesday 4:30 PM EDT beginning May 20, 2009
[Please know that the following is a duplicate of an email I sent before, but now that additional students are registered for our course, I am resending the following email previously sent before everyone registered. Thank you to those students who already have responded; and those who need to respond, please do so as soon as convenient and in any event before the day of our first class, please. This is important, because I endeavor to design our curriculum based in part upon your responses, and having your responses available before our first class will expedite my preparation of your syllibus and publication of your reading and study assignments for class preparation in final form. In the meantime, I am providing, at the end of this email, a preliminary draft of our syllibus which, please understand, is subject to revision as and when I receive all of your responses to my email set forth below. Kindly read and study the Constitution, referenced below, in anticipation of our first class and our discussion of the Constitution and health law during our first class and thereafter during our course, as well as the other material referenced as a part of the draft curriculum for our May 20 first class. Thank you: I look forward to welcoming and to meeting each and all of you!]
"Good day: it will be my pleasure to welcome you to our course during the Summer term. Our class is to occur at a unique time in the evolution of health care delivery and health law in the United States, and we will be discussing some of the most current areas of concern including universal health care initiatives, health information technology including eHealth, privacy and security, regulatory enforcement and compliance programs, and quality of care initiatives, in addition to many others.
The required books for the course are:
Problems in Health Care Law, 9th Edition, by Robert D. Miller
http://www.jbpub.com/catalog/9780763745554/
and
Pocket Edition of the Constitution of the United States
http://www.abanet.org/abastore/index.cfm?section=main&fm=Product.AddToCart&pid=3170033
Both books should be available at the GMU bookstore in time for the first class, which is scheduled for Wednesday May 20 at 4:30 PM. Regarding the duration of our course, I am still in the process of determining how many weeks we will be meeting. Although our room is reserved for the entire Summer 2009 sessions period, we will not be meeting during that entire period; instead, I expect that we can complete the course, as before, in a period of time less in duration than the entire Summer 2009 sessions period, depending upon the time we meet each week. And there may be a weekly class or two that I am unable to attend because of other commitments. I will discuss all the foregoing further with you during our first class, when our calendar for the course will be provided along with our curriculum and your reading assignments (the assignments for prior terms are not necessarily the same as the assignments for our impending term). Your grade for our course will be based upon your submission in a timely manner of a term paper reflecting your original work product of at least twenty business letter-size sheets in length (footnotes, appendices and the like are in addition to such twenty sheets) and upon your term paper verbal presentation (in person during our class) and your class attendance and quality of class discussion participation. We will discuss the subjects appropriate for terms papers when we meet in class. Your attendance during every class is expected and required, unless unusual and special circumstances prevent attendance during a particular class, as I may determine based upon your explanation.
In the meantime, your initial assignment, please, is to provide me via email sometime within the next ten days with your CV that includes your academic and work background; your goals overall in attending CHHS and obtaining your degree; your professional aspirations; and any specific areas of health law that you are interested in learning about in addition to our overall curriculum. Note that I use my blog site:
http://www.healthlawyerblog.com
to provide information for my health law students. Although the Summer term curriculum is not yet posted at that site, feel free to visit that site to see what prior curricula have been. I modify the course content in certain respects each term in order to assure that our discussions reflect current developments, but overall we focus on your being able to respond to the following course objectives:
1. Describe legal principles for making professional and administrative decisions affecting health care service delivery.
2. Examine statues, regulations and case law relevant to health professional's licensure, including practices acts, contracts and employment law.
3. Explain state and federal legislative and regulatory activities related to quality oversight for health services.
4. Develop strategies for regulatory compliance for quality health systems, consistent with case law.
5. Develop conflict management and resolution skills to facilitate issue resolution with legal frameworks.
6. Compare fiduciary responsibility for healthcare systems.
I look forward to meeting you!"
PRELIMINARY DRAFT OF SYLLABUS, SUBJECT TO REVISION
HHS 750 - Legal Issues Relevant to Health Care Administration
Credits: 3 Prepares health professionals to understand legal principles, statutes, regulations, and case law related to managing health care organizations and health professionals’ practice. May compare legal health care issues from domestic and international perspectives.
Course objectives:
1. Describe legal principles for making professional and administrative decisions affecting health care service delivery.
2. Examine statues, regulations and case law relevant to health professional's licensure, including practices acts, contracts and employment law.
3. Explain state and federal legislative and regulatory activities related to quality oversight for health services.
4. Develop strategies for regulatory compliance for quality health systems, consistent with case law.
5. Develop conflict management and resolution skills to facilitate issue resolution with legal frameworks.
6. Compare fiduciary responsibility for healthcare systems.
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SESSION X
Days, dates, and times determined by individual course instructors.
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PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE: Classes held on May 20, May 27, June 3, June 10, June 17 NO CLASS, June 24, July 1, July 8, and possibly July 15.
READING AND STUDY ASSIGNMENTS:
May 20 – Constitution of the United States including amendments, Problems in Health Care Law, 9th Edition, by Robert D. Miller, Pp. 1-28, Introduction to the American Legal System, pp. 29-74, Organization of the Health Care Delivery System
May 27 – Pp. 121-139, Individual Providers and Caregivers, Licensing and Certification, pp. 213-314, Medical Staff & Relationship of Patient and Provider
June 3 – Pp. 315-426, Decision-making Concerning Individuals, Pp.427-492, Health Care Information
June 10 – pp. 681-708, Criminal Law and Civil Penalties
June 17 - NO CLASS
June 24 – Pp. 493-527, Paying for Health Care Resources and Services
TERM PAPER DUE JUNE 30
July 1 – Presentation and Discussion of Term Papers
July 8 – Presentation and Discussion of Term Papers; FINAL CLASS – Course review (subject to change and possible final class on July 15).
Regards, Alan S. Goldberg
AGoldbe1@gmu.edu
Alan@GoldbergLawyer.com
6845 Elm St. - Ste. 205
McLean, VA 22101
http://www.healthlawyer.com
http://www.healthlawyerblog.com
(703) 915-4790
Adj. Prof. of Health Law
George Mason University
Admitted VA NY DC FL MA
