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

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)