Healthcare Law and Ethics: Issues for the Age of Managed Care - Softcover

Harris, Dean M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567931073 ISBN 13: 9781567931075

Publisher: Health Administration Pr, 1999

Synopsis

An overview for healthcare executives with little legal background, or for students, explaining basics of healthcare law and exploring the relationships between the law, policy goals, and our society's ethical principles. Discusses how legal rules apply to problems that arise from the complex managed care system, such as selective contracting and denial of claims, and gives advice on problems including finding legal materials and understanding citations. Coverage also includes patient care issues such as the law of tort liability, and termination or refusal of care. The author is director of the Program in Health Administration Ethics in the Department of Health Policy and Administration at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author:

Dean M. Harris, J.D., is the Director of the Program in Health Administration Ethics in the Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina. In addition, Mr. Harris has practiced law since 1981.

About this edition

• Publisher: Health Administration Pr
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1567931073
• ISBN 13: 9781567931075
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 317