Health Care Law

Health care law is very specialized and highly regulated, on the one hand. However, it is also vast and interconnected with so many other areas of the law that it provides students with almost unlimited opportunities through which to pursue a health related legal career. Though the core courses, students will learn about the basic structure of our health care delivery system, including, but not limited to: the regulation of, and relationship between, different health care providers (e.g., physician groups, hospitals, etc.) and payors (e.g., Medicaid, Medicare, managed care companies); the patchwork of public and private mechanisms regulating health care access to and quality of medical treatment and devices; and the underlying policy concerns and tensions that led to our existing structure and which underlie resistance to any significant change to this system. Students can use this foundation to further specialize in any of the following areas: transactional law and fraud and abuse litigation for health care companies; public interest advocacy for increased access to quality health care for the indigent and other vulnerable populations; bioethics and patient protection in research; biotechnology patent and product liability issues; and personal injury and insurance disputes.