Research Catalog

Title

Legal aspects of health care administration / George D. Pozgar ; legal review, Nina M. Santucci.

Author

Pozgar, George D.

Publication

Gaithersburg, Md. : Aspen Publishers, 2002.

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Additional Authors

Santucci, Nina M.

Description

xiii, 487 p.; 29 cm.

Summary

Written primarily as a textbook for healthcare management programs, this work attempts to address all major areas of health law within 21 chapters. Since the last edition in 1993, this sixth edition includes two new chapters and some minor changes in the other chapters. The book seeks to provide the reader with the necessary background on a wide range of current healthcare topics, enabling professionals to deal with common legal and practical problems facing the healthcare industry. The book also attempts to serve as a textbook for use in healthcare management curricula. The latter of these objectives remains the more worthy, because suitable textbooks in this field are truly hard to come by. According to the author, this book was written as a course text for healthcare management students and as a reference for healthcare professionals. Practically speaking, though, it would function effectively only as a teaching aid and perhaps textbook for students. With the author having a primarily business background, the text proves deficient in presenting many legal principles. Since the fifth edition, the author has added more than 150 pages to this nonillustrated textbook. Still included are a helpful glossary of legal terms written in plain English, outlines at the beginning of each chapter, an index of cited cases, and a word index. The material is presented in an attractive, clearly segmented manner. Though a marked improvement since the last edition, this edition still fails to present adequately the legal issues of most concern to today's health care administrators. The text virtually ignores private inurement, the corporate practice of medicine, and information systems issues,and ineptly discusses antitrust, fraud and abuse, and self-referral laws. -Mark Mantooth.

Subject

• Malpractice > legislation & jurisprudence
• Legislation, Medical
• Delivery of Health Care > legislation & jurisprudence
• Medical laws and legislation > United States
• Medical personnel > Malpractice > United States
• United States

Genre/Form

Legislation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction to Law -- Sources of Law -- Government Organization -- Administrative Departments and Agencies -- Tort Law -- Intentional and Negligent Wrongdoing -- Negligence -- Intentional Torts -- Products Liability -- Criminal Aspects of Health Care -- Criminal Procedure -- Case Reviews -- Patient Abuse -- Contracts and Antitrust -- Purpose of a Contract -- Types of Contracts -- Elements of a Contract -- Competent Parties -- Legality of Object -- Statute of Frauds -- Conditions -- Performance -- Nonperformance Defenses -- Remedies -- State Laws/Uniform Commercial Code -- Contracts of Adhesion -- Guaranty and Warranty -- Employment Contracts -- Exclusive Contracts -- Restraint of Trade -- Hospital Staff Privileges -- Patient Transfer -- Insurance Denials -- Civil Procedure and Trial Practice -- Pleadings -- Discovery and Examination before Trial -- Motions -- Notice of Trial -- Memorandum of Law -- The Court -- The Jury -- Subpoenas -- Opening Statements -- Burden of Proof -- Evidence -- Defenses against Recovery -- Closing Statements -- Judge's Charge to the Jury -- Jury Deliberation and Determination -- Damages -- Appeals -- Execution of Judgments -- Corporate Liability -- Authority of Health Care Corporations -- Corporate Organization and Committee Structure -- Doctrine of Respondeat Superior -- Corporate Negligence -- Duties of Health Care Corporations -- CEO/Administrator's Role and Responsibility -- Medical Staff -- Medical Staff -- Medical Staff Organization -- Medical Staff Privileges.

ISBN

0834219115

LCCN

^^2001034124

OCLC

47098318

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library