Health Care Law and Policy

Course Description

This introductory health law course surveys current federal and state regulatory schemes governing the provision of healthcare. The class focuses on three major themes: quality of care, access to care, and cost containment. Students will learn about professional licensure, malpractice, the provider-patient relationship, informed consent, the regulation of healthcare facilities, public and private insurance regulation, bioethics of organ transplantation and end of life care, the Affordable Care Act, and other topics.

Current and Previous Instructors

Key to Codes in Course Descriptions

P: Prerequisite
C: Prerequisite or Concurrent Requirement
R: Recommended Prior or Concurrent Course

Currently Scheduled Sections

CRN: 21926

  • Spring '25
  • 3
  • 460
  • Mon: 4:20-5:15
    Wed: 4:20-6:20

    Twilight

  • William (Bill) Sarraille

  • 6 openings. (Limit 45). Upper Class and First Year
  • 503l

  • Brietta R. Clark, Health Law Cases, Materials, and Problems, 9th edition , West Academic Publishing , 2022

    ISBN: 9781685611729