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An Attempt To Bring Modern Workplace Realities To The Social Security Disability Adjudication System, Robert E. Rains
An Attempt To Bring Modern Workplace Realities To The Social Security Disability Adjudication System, Robert E. Rains
Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)
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Contracting For Healthcare: Price Terms In Hospital Admission Agreements, George A. Nation Iii
Contracting For Healthcare: Price Terms In Hospital Admission Agreements, George A. Nation Iii
Dickinson Law Review (2017-Present)
This article discusses the application of contract law principles to the relationship between hospitals and patients to determine how much patients owe for the health care they receive. For patients who are covered by in-network health insurance the exact nature of the contract created with the hospital usually is not relevant to the patient’s financial obligation because the patient’s contract with the hospital is superseded by the contract between the patient’s health insurer and the hospital. Nevertheless, even in-network patients are financially impacted, via increased insurance premiums, by the contract analysis discussed here, and for the increasing number of patients …
Procedural Triage, Matthew J.B. Lawrence
Procedural Triage, Matthew J.B. Lawrence
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Prior scholarship has assumed that the inherent value of a “day in court” is the same for all claimants, so that when procedural resources (like a jury trial or a hearing) are scarce, they should be rationed the same way for all claimants. That is incorrect. This Article shows that the inherent value of a “day in court” can be far greater for some claimants, such as first-time filers, than for others, such as corporate entities and that it can be both desirable and feasible to take this variation into account in doling out scarce procedural protections. In other words, …