Health law / by Barry R. Furrow, Professor of Law and Director, Health Law Program, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School Law; Thomas L. Greaney, Chester A. Myers Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law; Sandra H. Johnson, Professor Emerita of Law and Health Care Ethics, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law; Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Robert L. Willett Family Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law ; Robert L. Schwartz, Senior Visiting Professor, University of California Hastings College of the Law, Visiting Professor (Psychiatry), University of California, San Francisco, Weihofen Professor of Law Emeritus, University of New Mexico School of Law.
"This book is current as of January 2014 with regard to most developments related to the ACA, Medicare and Medicaid; it is current by a few additional months with regard to other development." -- Preface. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Licensure and discipline of health care professionals -- Quality-control regulation of health care facilities -- The liability of health care professionals -- Liability and quality improvement of health care institutions -- Provider obligations to provide treatment -- Regulation of private health care financing -- Health insurance regulation under the Affordable Care Act -- Medicare -- Medicaid -- Professional relationships in the health care enterprise -- Health care organizations : business structures and tax exemption -- Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse -- Antitrust law -- Reproduction and birth -- Determination of death and procurement and distribution of organs for transplantation -- Making decisions about death and dying -- Regulation of research upon human subjects.
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