Health Law Practice Guide
American Health Lawyers Association
Can be accessed on Westlaw at Database Identifier: "HTHLPG"
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Table of Contents:
Health Law Practice Guide
Part I. Operational Issues for Healthcare Facilities
Chapter 1. Professional Rights and Responsibilities
I. INTRODUCTION
II. CREDENTIALLING
III. PROCESS FOR GRANTING MEDICAL STAFF MEMBERSHIP AND CLINICAL PRIVILEGES
IV. DUE PROCESS
V. IMPAIRED PROVIDERS
VI. LICENSURE OF INDIVIDUAL PRACTITIONERS
VII. RIGHT OF NONPHYSICIAN LICENSED PRACTITIONERS TO PRACTICE INDEPENDENTLY
VIII. PEER REVIEW
Appendices
Part II. Patient Care Delivery Issues
Chapter 8. Healthcare Decision-Making, Patient Autonomy, and Professional Responsibility
Chapter 9. Liability for Patient Care
Chapter 10. The HIV-Infected Healthcare Worker
Chapter 11. Bioethics
Chapter 12. Treatment of Mental Health Patients
Chapter 13. Reserve
Part III. Payment Issues
Chapter 14. An Overview of Insurance Payment for Health Care Services and Employee Welfare Benefit Plans
Chapter 15. Medicare Part A Payment: Cost-Based Payments
Chapter 16. Medicare Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Operating Costs
Chapter 17. Medicare Prospective Payment System for Inpatient Hospital Capital Costs
Chapter 18. Medicare Payment for Graduate Medical Education Costs
Chapter 19. Medicare Part B Payment for Nonphysician Services
Chapter 20. Medicare Part B Payment for Physician Services
Chapter 20A. Introduction to Medicare Part D
Chapter 21. Medicaid Payment
Chapter 22. Medicare and Medicaid Administration
Chapter 23. Managed Care Contracting in 2007
Chapter 24. Fraud and Abuse in Payment Programs
Chapter 25. Utilization Management, Quality Improvement, and Practice Guidelines
Part IV. Transactions
Chapter 26. Antitrust in Transactions
Chapter 27. Fraud and Abuse Considerations in Health care Transactions
Chapter 28. Integrated Healthcare Systems
Chapter 29. Capital Finance
Chapter 30. Bankruptcy Proceedings Affecting Health Care
Chapter 31. Tax and Tax Exemption in Transactions
Part V. The Business Environment: Special Legal Concerns
Chapter 32. Hospitals: The Business Environment
Chapter 33. Long-Term Care and the Medicaid Program: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 34. The Business Environment for HMOs and PPOs-Special Legal Considerations
Chapter 35. Physician Practice Concerns
Chapter 36. Children's Hospitals
Chapter 37. The Business Climate for Home Care
Chapter 38. Outpatient/Ambulatory Services: Legal Concerns in a Fragmented Environment
Chapter 39. Coverage and Reimbursement for New Technologies
