Research Guides : Health Reform: Class Schedule

Class 1: Course Introduction / Overview of the American Health Care System and Sources of Health Law

August 30

Kaiser Family Foundation, New Interactive Tool Allows Users to Explore Trends in U.S. Health Spending and Share Custom-Made Charts (April 2015)
National Health Expenditures 2014 Highlights

Class 2: Health Care Financing: Public Sector--Medicare

September 6

Kaiser Family Foundation, Medicare and Medicaid at 50
Kaiser Family Foundation, The Story of Medicare: A Timeline (March 2015)
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare and You 2016
Familiarize yourself with the CMS website's Medicare area
Alliance for Healthcare Reform, Medicare Payment System Reforms (April 11, 2016)
CMMS, Proposed Rule: Medicare Program; Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Alternate Payment Model (APM) Incentive under the Physician Fee Schedule, and Criteria for Physician-Focused Payment Models (May 9, 2016), 81 FR 28161-28686
Government Accountability Office, Medicare Fee-for-Service: Opportunities Remain to Improve Appeals Process, GAO-16-366 (May 2016)
Kaiser Family Foundation, Turning Medicare into a Premium Support System: Frequently Asked Questions (July 2016)

Class 3: Health Care Financing: Public Sector─Medicaid

September 13

Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc.
135 S.Ct. 1378, 2015 WL 1419423 (March 31, 2015).

Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Final Rule: Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs; Medicaid Managed Care, CHIP Delivered in Managed Care, and Revisions Related to Third Party Liability (May 6, 2016)

By the end of this class session, each student should have an approved topic for his/her course paper.

Class 4: Research Techniques / Student Status Reports

September 20

Guest Speaker: Mary M. McCormick, Ass’t. Dir. For Research, Fla. State University, College of Law Research Center

Student status Reports

Class 5: Student Status Reports

September 27

Student status reports.

Kapp mini-lecture on "How to Write a Paper"

The individual mid-semester progress report to the class must be accompanied by a 300 to 750 word draft description of the student’s topic delivered to Professor Kapp and the student must subsequently meet with Professor Kapp to receive feedback on the draft and presentation.