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Health Law and Policy

Texas A&M University School of Law

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2003

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Managed Care’S Crimea: Medical Necessity, Therapeutic Benefit, And The Goals Of Administrative Process In Health Insurance, William M. Sage Nov 2003

Managed Care’S Crimea: Medical Necessity, Therapeutic Benefit, And The Goals Of Administrative Process In Health Insurance, William M. Sage

Faculty Scholarship

This Essay explores the concept of medical necessity as it has evolved in the judicial and administrative oversight of managed care. The goals of the Essay are to illustrate the range of plausible rationales for establishing administrative procedures to govern medical necessity disputes, and to demonstrate the difficulty of incorporating into those procedures the most important professional and social responsibilities of managed care in today’s health care system. Part I of the Essay explains the ideological and practical significance of medical necessity as managed care has evolved. Part II examines medical necessity as a legal problem, and questions whether current …


Can't We All Get Along? The Case For A Workable Patent Model, Srividhya Ragavan Mar 2003

Can't We All Get Along? The Case For A Workable Patent Model, Srividhya Ragavan

Faculty Scholarship

The global move towards a trade regime has been impeded by challenges of poverty and health crisis for the developing nations. Until now, the developed nations have touted the establishment of a trade regime as envisaged under TRIPS as the solution for the national challenges. This paper examines the effectiveness of TRIPS as a mechanism to move towards a trade regime. It argues that the patent policy in TRIPS cannot gear the world towards patent harmonization but can potentially adversely impact the developed nations and the post-world war trade structure. The impediments affecting the effectiveness of TRIPS as a harmonizing …