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Henry Allen
Henry Allen

MANAGEMENT & STRATEGY; HEALTH ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT
Lecturer of Health Enterprise Management

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Henry S. Allen Jr. is a partner and leader within the health law team at Holland & Knight. For the past 28 years, he has practiced exclusively in the health care area where he has handled a broad spectrum of business and litigation matters. He has litigated health care cases in forums ranging from the superior court of Alaska to the United States Supreme Court in Jefferson Parish Hospital District No 2 v. Hyde, the landmark antitrust case. Mr. Allen has also served as counsel of record for the American Hospital Association in the United States Supreme Court and obtained, on behalf of health care clients in the Court of Appeals, the amicus curiae support of both the United States Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. In these cases and in others where appropriate, Mr. Allen has utilized the work of health economists and other social scientists to identify ways in which the client's interests are aligned with those of health care consumers.

Mr. Allen received his A.B. magna cum laude from Washington University (St. Louis) in 1969, where he majored in economics and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Omicron Delta Epsilon, the national honor society in economics. He earned his M.P.A. from Cornell University's Graduate School of Business and Public Administration In 1973. Also in 1973, Mr. Allen graduated from Cornell University's Sloan Institute of Health Services Administration where from 1971 through 1973 he was a National Center for Health Services Research trainee. Mr. Allen earned his J.D. from Cornell University Law School in 1974.

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Full-Time / Part-Time MBA
Legal Issues in Health Care Delivery (formerly HIMT-451) (HEMA-451-0)

This course counts toward the following majors: Health Enterprise Management, Health Industry Management

This course will survey the legal issues that most frequently arise in healthcare. Students will learn the role of law in promoting healthcare quality, accountability, access, and efficiency. Using a casebook, students will learn how to apply the law to the examined diverse situations arising in healthcare. Many of the cases discussed deal with the tort liability of healthcare professionals and organizations, with a special emphasis on establishing the standard of care and proving negligence in malpractice and informed consent situations. Students will learn how antitrust may be applied to preserve competition in healthcare markets where hospitals have been merging to acquire market power, and where other healthcare providers, including physicians, have engaged in concerted conduct to avoid competition. Because most hospitals and other providers are not-for-profit and enjoy a tax-exempt status, we will cover the tax rules on maintaining that status. Also, healthcare providers rely on government reimbursement; students will learn the fraud and abuse rules that police the integrity of that reimbursement. Other topics the course addresses include the healthcare providers' obligation to provide care; medical records and patient confidentiality; health planning and certificate of need; human reproduction and birth; and decisions about death and dying. The course utilizes a treatise entitled: Health Law by Furrow, et al., and a casebook by the same name and the same set of authors. Both books are required. Students will learn to utilize the Furrow treatise as a desk reference when they leave Northwestern. The course is cross-listed with Law and MD-MPH programs, so students in the course will have the opportunity to work in teams that reflect a variety of backgrounds and disciplines.