Healthcare Law

The most trusted resource in healthcare law is this classic text from George Pozgar, now completely revised. With new case studies and news clippings in each chapter, Legal Aspects of Health Care Administration continues to serve as an ideal introduction to the legal and ethical issues in the healthcare workplace. This authoritative guide presents a wide range of health care topics in a comprehensible and engaging manner that will carefully guide your students through the complex maze of the legal system. This is a book they will hold on to throughout their careers. Healthcare administrators face an increasingly complex maze of legal issues as government regulation and health care reform evolves and corporate structures adapt to meet the changing demands of their constituencies. With a continued emphasis on the ethical challenges of providing quality care amidst these powerful and often chaotic industry forces, the 13th Edition helps future administrators navigate the core industry issues of patient centered care, the future workforce and the culture of compassion.With over 40 years of experience as an administrator, consultant, and surveyor across 650 hospitals, author George D. Pozgar provides a uniquely accessible tool for grasping the legal complexities of health care through an array or real-life case studies, precedent-making court cases, and key statistical data. In the 13th Edition, Mr. Pozgar once again invites the reader to explore the comprehensive range of legal issues--from tort reform and healthcare fraud to reporting requirements and patient rights. Legal Aspects of health Care Administration, 13th Edition is an indispensable text for future healthcare administrators and one that will serve them throughout their professional lives. The 13th edition presents a wide range of health care topics in a comprehensible and engaging manner that will carefully guide your students through the complex maze of the legal system. This is a book they will hold on to throughout their careers.

New Fourteen Edition coming in Spring 2022!

This book offers a framework for studying modern quality approaches, including more expansive definitions of quality in health care, patient safety, and the use of data-driven methods for monitoring quality performance. The text begins with a student-friendly introduction to the way that the central concerns in health law and policy -- cost, quality, access, and choice -- interact. The next chapters cover state and federal quality-control regulation, including professional licensure and discipline and Medicare and Medicaid provider certification for health care organizations. The book provides extensive material on liability, including both medical malpractice and the liability of health care organizations, and explores the impact of ERISA preemption on liability for quality failures. These chapters also address the duties of informed consent and confidentiality, including HIPAA, and the impact of nondiscrimination obligations as a matter of quality in health care. The book includes material on quality efforts within health care organizations, including their relationship with health care professionals through staff privileges, contracting, and employment.

Paul Starr is Professor of Sociology at Princeton University

Health insurance coverage and regulatory reform -- The treatment relationship -- Hospital structure and regulation -- Antitrust law and health care -- Complex transactions and organizational forms -- Defining death and transplanting organs -- End-of-life medical decisions -- Selected issues in reproductive medicine.
"Public policy responses to escalating medical costs and constrained access pose fundamental challenges to health care law. Profound medical advances also generate many ethical dilemmas. This authoritative discussion considers how law and ethics respond to these driving social, economic, and political forces of innovation, crisis and reform. Topics include health insurance reform, health care finance and delivery structures, treatment relationships, facility and insurance regulation, corporate and tax law, refusal of life support, organ donation, and reproductive technologies."--

Table of Contents
1 Physician Practice Organization
2 Overview of Regulatory Issues Affecting Physicians
3 Telemedicine
4 Employment Agreements and Other Working Relationships
5 Life Cycle of Association: The Buy-In and the Buy-Out
6 Tax Principles Concerning Buy-Outs and Related Post-Withdrawal Compensation
7 Tax Consequences Resulting From Choice of Entity
8 Practice Breakups and Physician Departures
9 Reimbursement of Physician Services
10 Physician/Hospital Relationships
11 Professional Liability: A Primer on Malpractice Insurance and Risk Management
12 Physician Joint Ventures
13 The Sale and Purchase of a Medical Practice
14 Hospital-Based Physician Representation
15 Use of Non-Competition Covenants in Physician Employment Relationships
16 Labor and Employment
17 Industry Relationships
18 Compliance, Compliance Plans, and Process for the Physician Practice
19 Non-Physician Practitioners
20 Physician Ancillary Services
21 Physician Recruitment Agreements
22 Physician Agreements
23 Background on Concierge Care
24 Physician In-Office Drug Dispensing and Compounding Arrangements
Table of Cases
Table of Statutes
Index