Health Attorney Flashcards
Overview
- involves working on cases and policies
- ranging from clients seeking medical to insurance coverage, regulation of health care institutions to occupational health and safety
Students interested in health care law can select between many different practices like
- serving clients directly
- counselling agencies
- doing policy work
Skills
- analytical and logical thinking
- communication skills
- negotiation
Skills: analytical and logical thinking
- capable of understanding complex cases, manage a considerable amount of material and find necessary info to settle legal disputes
Skills: communication skills
write or speak in a manner that is clear, concise and logical
Skills: negotiation
help 2 diff parties come to an agreement
Responsibilities
- provision of health care services and benefits
- interpreting complicated health care regulations and statuses
- advising health care institutions, doctors, pharm companies, and all other health care workers on issues that are governed by health care law (licencing, reimbursement, malpractice litigation)
Education requirements
- undergrad degree
- law school acceptance (80-84%) depending on the school
- LSAT sometimes (reading comprehension, organization and management of information and critical thinking)
- 5 35 minute MC sections
- 1 35 minute writing sample
- offered 4x a year
- ave acceptance grade 160/180 (80th percentile of all test takes)
How long law school (health care law)
- 3 year program
what does each year of law school consist of
- teaches you foundations of necessary law
2 + 3 electives focus on health care law
How many schools are there in CA and ON?
20 CA
7 ON
What is the last step to becoming a lawyer
passing prov bar exam
What are the law schools in ON (7)
U of T Osgood (york) UWO QU U Of O U of Windsor Lakehead
what is the most expesive law school
U of T (30k)
What is the least expensive law school
Lakehead (15k)
regulatory arrangements
- various regulatory bodies
- each prov has their own
- Ontario - law society of upper canada
- ensures indv are licensed, insured and qualified to guide clients through legal process
- self regulated profession
- purpose of bodies is to protect and advocate for public
- offers services such as “find a lawyer” and provides reviews and backgrounds on professionals
Associations
ex. Ontario bar association work to promote and protect the professionals
How is the legal job market?
sluggish
Average sal
$133 000
where do they often work?
in office
Private practice v big firm
private - self employed, set own hours, working independently, high risk
big firm - usually work under partner, 9-5 job, have to move way up
Health risks
- unique health risks
- carpal tunnel syndrome
- lower back pain
- depression
- chronic stress (can trigger clinical depression)
Borden Ladner Gervais
- legal council for hospitals, HCP’s and patients
BLG one of the biggest health care law firms in CA
Crit Reflection
look at notes
Brian Day v. government
- dr charged with hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees to patients (owns Cambie Surgeries)
- audit from a sample of Cambie’s billing that it and another private clinic had charged patients hundreds and thousands of dollars more for HC services covered by medicare than is permitted by law
Brian Days argument
Wait times are harming health of seriously ill patients
His lawyer
Peter Gall - HC expertise
