2008 Summer Term Courses

 

Patients' Rights
2 credits

2008 Summer Term
June 21, 22, 28, 29
9:00 a.m. – noon / 12:30 p.m. -4:00 p.m.

This course explores the rights of patients and the legal principles with which patient advocates should be familiar. Special attention is given to the right of patients to select or refuse care; donate or refuse to donate organs, tissues, and whole cadavers; select or refuse videotaping; receive or refuse visitors; avoid restraint and seclusion; and maintain confidentiality and privacy. Other patients' rights and guidance on how to assert those rights in government and internal appeal processes will be addressed.

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Faculty:

Stacey Tovino
Assistant Professor, Hamline University School of Law
Ph.D., Texas; J.D., Houston; B.A., Tulane.

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Healthcare Fraud and Abuse
2 credits

2008 Summer Term
Tuesday and Thursday evenings in June from 5:30 – 8:50

June: 3, 5, 10, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26

This course examines federal and state laws and regulations that impose criminal and civil penalties on health care providers for fraudulent and wasteful activities. Special attention is given to federal False Claims and Anti-kickback statutes, physician self-referral (Stark) laws, civil monetary penalty and exclusion laws, and the application of traditional federal white collar criminal laws to health care. The course also examines how these laws Drive the structure of health care enterprises. This course is particularly important for students interested in health care regulation compliance or transactional work.

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Faculty:

Jerry Wilhelm
Assistant United States Attorney and
Adjunct Professor, Hamline University School of Law

Jerry is an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s office for the District of Minnesota. Before coming to the United States Attorney’s office in 1992, Jerry spent 19 years in private practice. For 13 of those years, he was also the Martin County attorney, serving as the President of the Minnesota County Attorney’s Association during 1990-91. Since coming to the United States Attorney’s Office in 1992, he has spent six years in the criminal division and the balance of his tenure in the civil division, where he currently focuses on affirmative litigation, principally in the health care area. Jerry received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota in 1970, his law degree from the same school in 1973, and his MBA from the University of St. Thomas in 1990.

Janet Newberg
Newberg Law Office
Adjunct Professor, Hamline University School of Law

Janet is an experienced counselor, advocate and litigator in the health law field. Upon graduating from the University of Minnesota Law school Janet was a felony prosecutor and Director of Minnesota's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit at the Minnesota Attorney General's Office. She has also been an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s office for the District of Minnesota where she was an Affirmative Civil Enforcement Attorney, Criminal Health Care Fraud Coordinator, and Ethics Advisor. Janet served as the Chair of the Health Law Section and Privacy Officer while partner at Felhaber Larson Fenlon & Vogt, P.A. She currently owns Newberg Law Offices in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

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Health Care Credentialing and Privileging
1 credit

2008 Summer Term
Monday, July 21-Thursday, July 24
5:30 p.m – 8:50 p.m.

Hospitals, clinics, health plans and other health care entities have processes to determine the competency of the physicians and other health care providers who provide services for or within their facilities. This course will examine those processes and the legal issues that they raise.

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Faculty

George T. Chresand
Fairview Health Services
Senior Vice President and General Counsel

George Chresand is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Fairview Health Services, an integrated health care delivery system that includes both academic and community facilities. In addition to the legal function at Fairview, Chresand currently oversees Fairview's clinical research, tax and governance functions and is Fairview’s Institutional Official for Research.

Chresand is a 1976 graduate of the College (now University) of St. Thomas, St. Paul, and a 1979 graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis. He is a member of the Minnesota Bar, American Health Lawyers Association and the Minnesota State Bar Association. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Health Law Institute at Hamline Law School, as a member of the Internal Revenue Services’ Great Lakes Area Tax Exempt and Governmental Entities Council and has taught health law through the University of St. Francis. Chresand currently chairs the PreferredOne Community Health Plan Board of Directors and is a member of its Audit and Compliance Committee.

Prior to joining Fairview in 1993, Chresand was in private legal practice and worked as a merger and acquisitions consultant. His responsibilities at Fairview have included acquisitions, tax, governance, privacy, internal audit and compliance. Chresand developed Fairview’s original compliance program, lead its HIPAA privacy and security implementation and facilitated and lead Fairview’s most recent governance reorganization.

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