Research Catalog

Title

Managed care liability : examining risks and responsibilities in a changing health care system / David L. Leitner, editor.

Publication

Chicago, Ill. : Tort and Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association, c1997.

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Additional Authors

Leitner, David L.

Description

xi, 471 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Subject

• Risk Management
• Malpractice
• Liability, Legal
• Managed Care Programs > legislation & jurisprudence
• Managed care plans (Medical care) > Law and legislation > United States
• Health facilities > Risk management > United States
• Medical personnel > Malpractice > United States
• Tort liability of managed care plans
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An overview of managed care organizations : sorting out the alphabet soup / Delilah Brummet Flaum and Diane J. Romza-Kutz -- Litigation over quality in managed care : individual malpractice/negligence claims in arbitration and litigation / Barry R. Furrow -- Regulation of health plan companies and provider sponsored networks : practical and public policy considerations / American Hospital Association -- Clinical practice guidelines : their development and use in medical malpractice litigation / James P. Wolf -- Credentialing liability and the managed care organization / George F. Indest III and Laurie J. Levin -- Handling consumer grievances and minimizing legal liability / Alan Bloom -- Who's the boss? : controlling liability in managed care / Alan Bloom -- Disasters in managed care : a plaintiff's perspective / Thomas William Malone and Deborah Haas Thaler -- Defending managed care in jury cases / Judson Graves -- Experimental procedures : the health net case and liability stemming from denial of coverage for experimental or investigational procedures / Mark O. Hiepler -- Utilization review/clinical guidelines and practice parameters : what is utilization review and what does it mean to your malpractice action? : how do clinical guidelines help or hurt your case? / Ila S. Rothschild -- ERISA preemption and liability : what is ERISA and does it have an impact on the medical malpractice claim? / Mark E. Schmidtke -- Ethical issues for attorneys in the representation of health care entities and individuals / Nyda Brooks Zelenka -- An introduction to "gatekeeper" liability in managed care medical malpractice cases / James S. Haliczer and Amy B. Talisman -- PHOs and the assumption of insurance risk / Garry Carneal -- Liability of the long distance health care provider / James Rosenblum -- Health care reforms of 1996 : important developments for managed care providers / Michael S. Beaver and Virginia L. Briggs.

ISBN

1570733937 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^96080429^

OCLC

36643430

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library