Ideal for professionals or students with no legal background, this resource explains the basics of health law and the legal system. It provides a familiarity with legal principles and the capability to communicate effectively with legal counsel. Use this resource to understand the workings of the U.S. legal system in general as well as the specific legal issues that arise in healthcare.

The law and the public's health (Issues and problems in health care)

Wing, Kenneth R.

Health & Medical Law

Mosby

The law and the public's health

Medical Books

Medicine

Health Administration Press

Ideal for public health and health administration students, this text outlines the fundamental principles of law related to the delivery and financing of health services. This new edition contains updated references to current health law controversies, including managed care, state and federal regulation of privately financed healthcare, and fraud and abuse. A new chapter focuses on managed care issues.

The Law and the Public's Health

Health Administration Pr

Book by Wing, Kenneth R., Jacobs, Michael S., Kuszler, Patricia C.

The Law and American Health Care

Jacobs, Michael S.

Kuszler, Patricia C.

Aspen Law & Business

Health, Fitness & Dieting

The Law and the Public's Health: Supplemental Cases, Fifth Edition

Ethics & Professional Responsibility

Foundation of the Amer College

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

The sixth edition of Kenneth Wing's The Law and the Public's Health tailors discussions of law and the legal system to healthcare administration and policy students who do not have a background in law. With this text, students can familiarize themselves with American law, and prepare for the legal constraints and controversies they will likely encounter in their healthcare careers. With this familiarity, students can learn the skills needed to define relevant legal issues, to understand how these issues would be resolved, and perhaps most important, to seek out, communicate with, and evaluate legal counsel. 
Benefits: A new chapter focuses on the issues that arise in business transactions between providers and payers including antitrust, liability, and tax considerations The text includes updates throughout, as well as expanded material on fraud and abuse laws No legal background is necessary to understand this book The text comes with a supplemental casebook The text comes with an online Instructor's Manual 
Contents Introduction to the Sixth Edition The law and the legal system The power of the state governments in matters affecting health care Government power and the right to privacy The constitutional discretion of the state and federal governments to limit or condition social welfare benefits Government regulation of health care providers and payers The scope of discretion of administrative agencies in matters affecting health and health care The fraud and abuse laws The antitrust laws: Government enforcement of competition Malpractice: Liability for negligence in the delivery and financing of health care Health care business law: Legal considerations in the structuring of entities and their transactions

The Law and the Public's Health, Sixth Edition

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