Health Care Management and the Law: Principles and Applications

Author : Donna Hammaker

9781428320048

576 Pages Hardcover

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Health Care Management and the Law: Principles and Applications engages students who will be leading and shaping twenty-first century health care organizations. It raises questions about health law issues such as emergence of the U.S. as a player in the global health care industry, innovative new ap... more

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Application of the concepts seeks to provide health care managers with sufficient knowledge of the law to become intelligent, critical thinkers in professional practice.

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Donna Hammaker

Donna Hammaker, a health law attorney and founding director of NIH-CML, holds a faculty appointment at Immaculata University where she teaches graduate health care ethics and health law. She earned graduate degrees from Temple University School of Law and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and completed graduate studies at the Hebrew University Faculty of Law and the London School of Economics. Before entering academia full-time, Hammaker was a member of the Pennsylvania Bar, admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Hammaker was also president and chief executive officer of Collegiate Health Care Corp., the nation’s first inter-university managed care organization. She has served on the adjunct faculty and taught graduate health care ethics and health law at Alvernia College, Pennsylvania State University, Rutgers University, Saint Joseph University, and Widener University.

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Table of Contents

PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
PART I: INTRODUCTION.
1. Processes for Thinking About the U.S. Health Care System.
2. Introduction to Health Law.
PART II: OVERVIEW OF SPECIFIC HEALTH LAWS.
3. Health Care Compliance Programs.
4. Antitrust and Regulation of Health Care Providers.
PART III: ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE.
5. Access to and Reimbursement for Medically Necessary Health Care.
6. Medicaid and Equal Access to Medically Necessary Health Care.
7. Medicare Reforms.
PART IV: AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE.
8. Mutually Affordable Health Care.
9. Patient Rights and Responsibilities.
10. Tort Reform and Reducing the Risk of Malpractice.
PART V: STAFFING OF HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS.
11. Human Resources Departments.
12. Employers' Health Care Costs.
13. Labor and Management Relations.
PART VI: STRATEGIC HEALTH CARE RESTRUCTURINGS.
14. Managed Care and Other Strategic Health Care Restructurings.
15. Integration Deals in the Health Care Sector.
16. Business Process Outsourcing.
PART VII: PRODUCERS OF MEDICAL PRODUCTS.
17. Pharmaceuticals.
18. Biotechnology and Biopharmaceuticals.
19. Medical Devices.
20. Health Information Technology.
PART VIII: IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE.
21. Disease Management and the Patient-Physician Relationship.
22. Evidence-Based Medicine.
23. Improving Patient Safety and Decreasing Medical Error.
PART IX: OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM'S RESPONSE TO ILLNESS.
24. Human Body Parts Industry.
25. Organ Procurement and Transplantation.
26. HIV/AIDS Pandemic.
27. Mental Health.
PART X: END-OF-LIFE HEALTH CARE.
28. Hospice Care.
29. Mature Minor Rights to Refuse Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment.
30. Care of the Critically Ill and Dying.
PART XI: OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM'S RESPONSE TO NEW TECHNOLOGIES.
31. Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine.
32. Reprogenics and Assisted Reproductive Medicine.
PART XII: ADDITIONAL PRESSING ISSUES FACING OUR HEALTH CARE SYSTEM.
33. Global Pandemics and Public Health Emergency Threats.
34. Health Care Issues for Women.
35. Clinical Trials.
36. Food Safety.
37. Environmental Safety.
38. Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.
PART XIII: CONCLUSION
39. Future Prospects: Health Care Management and the Law.

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