Health Law Regulatory & Compliance Competition
Competition: March 28, 2012
Registration for the 2012 Competition is now closed. Please check back for details about next years Competition
The Law & Health Care Program (L&HCP) and the Student Health Law Organization (SHLO) at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law announce the inaugural Health Law Regulatory and Compliance Competition. A novel idea for law students, particularly those interested in health law, the Health Law Regulatory and Compliance Competition will challenge students to apply federal health regulations and rules, policies, and federal agency documents to a hypothetical fact pattern involving a federal health agency and healthcare stakeholders. The Competition will immerse law students in the complex regulatory and legal environment health law attorney’s practice in everyday and it will give them practical experience interpreting and applying federal health regulations and policies to situations that are closely modeled after recent healthcare regulatory issues and cases.
Detailed Description
The Health Law Regulatory and Compliance Competition requires teams of students to analyze a particular fact pattern using federal health regulations, rules, and agency documents, and to present a legal and policy solution to a panel of regulatory and compliance attorneys. Participating students will be evaluated on a submission written during the course of the 3-hour competition as well as an oral presentation. Teams will consist of three (3) students. The problem and resource materials will be given out on the night of the competition and the winner will be announced on the night of the competition. The competition will run from 5-9 pm and dinner will be provided.
The competition is open to teams from all ABA-accredited law schools and is appropriate for 2nd and 3rd year law students who have taken at least one health law course – preferably a survey course that touched on fraud and abuse issues.
Students will be provided with the relevant legal materials to answer the problem. Possible regulatory, compliance and legal issues that may be included in the hypothetical fact pattern include:
- Potential prosecution under the False Claims Act for off-label marketing and promotion surrounding various educational and promotional activities
- Compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
- Exclusion from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
- Questionable billing practices that may implicate fraud and abuse laws and anti-kickback and Stark statutes
- Improper manufacturing and quality issues
The L&HCP and SHLO at the UM Carey School of Law look forward to having you attend and participate in our inaugural Health Law Regulatory & Compliance Competition. Teams must submit a letter of their intent to compete by Friday, February 10, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. Please email your letter of intent to Co-President Abe Gitterman at adg5005@gmail.com If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Abe Gitterman at 610-203-6606 or adg5005@gmail.com or Virginia Rowthorn, Managing Director, Law & Health Care Program, at 410-706-5369 or vrowthorn@law.umaryland.edu.
Related Links
- Journal of Health Care Law & Policy
- Student Health Law Organization (SHLO)
- Legal Resource Center for Tobacco Regulation, Litigation and Advocacy
- The Maryland Healthcare Ethics Committee Network
- Center for Health & Homeland Security
- Center for Dispute Resolution (C-DRUM)
- Maryland Intellectual Property Legal Resource Center
- Conferences & Symposia
- Federal Regulation of Probiotics
- The Network for Public Health Law
