Law For Physicians

This book is a toolkit for healthcare providers to confidently develop an in-depth understanding of how medicine, business, and law overlap and to gain the insights to feel empowered to make improved decisions.

This book focuses on the legal issues that affect physicians, with the aim of arming them with the practical knowledge they need to protect themselves from malpractice claims and other forms of litigation. In a straightforward fashion, the authors allay unwarranted concerns while casting light on potential legal pitfalls. This text discusses health care fraud and abuse and provides thorough coverage of medical malpractice, helping physicians head off potential claims, advising them on the choice of liability insurance, and explaining the litigation process. A chapter on employment discrimination law thoroughly informs physicians on employment practices that will help them avoid employee litigation. The current hot topic of physician unions is examined to familiarize physicians with the means by which they can voice their concerns and exercise leverage in their service contracts.

A legal reference for practicing physicians is a necessary adjunct to their professional practice library in today's highly regulated and litigious world. Medical Care Law was written to help practicing physicians avoid legal conflicts, and to prevent legal problems rather than treat them. Written with the practicing physician in mind, this book is also valuable to a variety of health professionals, including physician executives, medical directors, nurse administrators, advanced practice nurses, case managers, risk managers, legal nurse consultants, health care administrators, public health professionals, and attorneys. In addition To The traditional legal issues affecting medical practitioners, Medical Care Law addresses the legal pitfalls in today's volatile health care landscape, including managed care, health care fraud and abuse, compliance plans, and working with non-physician providers.

This book represents the cutting edge of physician law. The publication emanates from the American Bar Association Health Law Section's 2021 Physicians Legal Issues Conference. The conference and Physician Law: Evolving Trends & Hot Topics have been produced in conjunction with the Chicago Medical Society and the American Medical Association, tailored to an audience including physicians, lawyers, healthcare administrators, and other healthcare business people. The book includes ten peer-reviewed chapters on core physician-centric legal topics: 1) Entrepreneurial Medicine (including fraud and abuse risk areas); 2) Physician-Hospital Contracting; 3) Medical Professional Liability; 4) Telemedicine; 5) HIPAA Compliance; 6) Accountable Care Organizations; 7) Doctors' Defense in Medical Staff Hearings and Appeals; 8) Physician Well-Being; 9) Medicare and Medicaid Contractors; and 10) Physician Employment Contracts from the Physician Perspective. Physicians will especially benefit from the content that addresses a broad range of non-clinical topics that are currently transforming American healthcare. The chapters target issues that are not typically covered in most medically orientd volumes but nonetheless are critically important in the practice of medicine. Physician Law: Evolving Trends & Hot Topics is an excellent reference for clinicians and professionals who want to stay abreast of current legal and regulatory issues impacting their practice.

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Written by an MD/JD, this book offers a unique perspective on medical-legal issues surrounding daily clinical practice. It covers all the essentials and tells the inside secrets of how to avoid cases that cost the medical community millions each year. Readers will learn basic law and the ways laws are interpreted. In addition, the book focuses on the law-medicine-politics triangle and its effect on physicians, the impact of — and issues related to — diversity in medical malpractice, and other essential topics. Physicians who better understand malpractice laws are better clinical decision makers who feel more confident in their ability as doctors.

More than ever before, the legal system plays a vital role in virtually every aspect of the current health care system. From the congressional debate over patients' rights legislation to judicial rulings on the denial of health care services, the legal system is integrally involved in the organization, financing, and delivery of health care. This book explains how the legal system helps shape health care delivery and policy, explores new ways of looking at the relationship between law and medicine, and reflects on why it all matters. The story focuses on the judicial response to the advent of managed care, especially challenges to cost containment initiatives, and shows how the legal system has facilitated managed care's dominance over the health care system. An equally important part of the story is the evolution of the relationship between physicians and attorneys and how their mutual antagonism affects patient care. In the end, the stories come together around a strategy for reconciling the difficult health policy choices the country faces and for restoring the physician-patient relationship to the center of health care delivery.

This title was first published in 2002.The wide range of essays contained within this volume present contemporary thinking on the legal and ethical implications surrounding modern medical practice.