Health law

Expert authors present an up-to-date overview of health law as it affects the professionals, institutions, and entities that deliver and finance health care in the United States. Considers the law's response to quality and error through institutional and professional regulation, and malpractice litigation against professionals, hospitals, and managed care organizations. Surveys tax, corporate, and organizational issues. Explores the government's efforts to control costs and expand access through Medicare and Medicaid. Examines government attempts to police anticompetitive activities, fraud, and abuse. And considers the legal and ethical issues involving death, human reproduction, medical treatment decision making, and medical research. The Affordable Care Act, HIPAA, HITECH , and other new statutory and regulatory changes of the past few years are thoroughly incorporated in all aspects of the legal discussion.

1. Licensure and discipline of health care professionals -- 2. Quality-control regulation of health care facilities -- 3. The liability of health care professionals -- 4. Liability and quality improvement of health care institutions -- 5. Provider obligations to provide treatment -- 6. Regulation of private health care financing -- 7. Health insurance regulation under the Affordable Care Act -- 8. Medicare -- 9. Medicaid -- 10. Professional relationships in the health care enterprise -- 11. Health care organizations : business structures and tax exemption -- 12. Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse -- 13. Antitrust law -- 14. Reproduction and birth -- 15. Determination of death and procurement and distribution of organs for transplantation -- 16. Making decisions about death and dying -- 17. Regulation of research upon human subjects.