Professor Ann Marie Marciarille will examine one of Medicare's key cost drivers, unnecessary re-hospitalizations. Both the problem of unnecessary Medicare re-hospitalizations and the solution are found at the intersection of Medicare finance and Medicare delivery systems, both of which are shaped by Medicare's legal and regulatory infrastructure. It is only fitting that potential solutions should be found there as well.

About the Speaker

Ann Marie Marciarille is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Health Law at UC Hastings for 2011-2012. She will be teaching a course in Public Health Law in the fall and one in Health Care Regulation, Administration, and Finance in the spring.

Most recently, she has served as a Lecturer in Health Law at Boalt and as a Senior Research Fellow in Health Law at the Warren Institute. Prior to that, she was an AARP Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor at Pacific McGeorge School of Law and had a long career as a practicing health law attorney. She is a summa cum laude Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Amherst College (American Studies) and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.

Her current research interests include health care reform--particularly payment and delivery reforms designed to improve quality, lower cost, and enhance the patient experience of care.

CME and CLE (1) credit will be offered for attending this event. 

The O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publications is a State Bar of California approved MCLE provider. This activity is approved for a maximum of 1 MCLE credit. For CLE credit, please RSVP with your state BAR number and address to freya@uchastings.edu.

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) and the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. UCSF is accredited by the ACGME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Presenting faculty has disclosed no conflict of interest for this event.