Health Care Law: A Practical Guide

A comprehensive analysis and practical guide for handling the many legal issues facing all health care providers in today's dynamic health care environment.

Each chapter contains a concise, comprehensive discussion of the law; an analysis of problems likely to be faced by health care providers; and practical guidelines for dealing with those problems.

•   Medical malpractice, risk management and quality assurance
•   Consent to medical treatment
•   Medical information and confidentiality
•   Reimbursement
•   Antitrust and health care
•   Medical staff matters
•   Patient care issues--admission and discharge, abortion and sterilization, death, autopsies, organ donations, and AIDS issues
•   Tax issues
•   Contractual relations
•   Facility licensing and accreditation
•   Licensure of professionals
•   Joint Ventures and practice acquisitions
•   Fraud and abuse and self-referral issues

First published 1985.