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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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Registration
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Law/Graduate Students: Degree-seeking students currently enrolled in
an ABA-accredited law school should complete Part A of the application form and
return it with a letter from their school's registrar reflecting their status as
a student in good standing with permission to take the Hamline course(s) as a
visiting student. NOTE: Hamline law students do not need a letter of good
standing from the registrar.
Attorneys: Attorneys may apply for admission to take January Term
courses by completing Part B of the application form and they will be granted
special student status. CLE credits will be granted upon completion
of each course.
Others: Other professionals may apply for admission to January Term
courses by completing Part C of the application form. To be considered,
applicants must furnish an official transcript of undergraduate or graduate
course work.
Tuition
Tuition for degree-seeking students is $1000 per credit. This includes
students seeking credit for a graduate degree or those seeking credits to
complete the Hamline Certificate Program in Dispute Resolution.
Tuition for non-degree students is $500 per credit.
A $150 per course, non-refundable tuition deposit must accompany all
applications. The tuition deposit will be deducted from the total tuition
amount. This deposit will only be returned if the applicant is not accepted into
the course. The balance of the tuition is due one week prior to the beginning
class session for each course after which no refund will be made.
Applications are accepted on a first-come/first-registered basis. Students
will be notified by mail of their acceptance in the program. Hamline University
School of Law reserves the right to cancel any course that does not meet minimum
enrollment requirements.
Course
Materials
All courses require completion of a reading assignment prior to the first
class meeting. There is a separate charge for books and course materials, for
which you will be billed along with the balance of your course tuition which is
due one week prior to the start of each course. The cost of books and materials
varies. A course syllabus, advance reading assignment, and course materials will
be mailed to you approximately two weeks prior to the start of the course. Please contact Marcia Miller @ mmiller14@hamline.edu so she can send out your course materials.
For more information contact:
Marcia Miller,
Assistant Director, Health Law Institute
Hamline University School of Law
1536 Hewitt Avenue
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55104-1237
Phone: 651.523.2625
email:mmiller14@hamline.edu