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Silence Is Golden . . . Except In Health Care Philanthropy, Stacey A. Tovino
Silence Is Golden . . . Except In Health Care Philanthropy, Stacey A. Tovino
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Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino
Giving Thanks: The Ethics Of Grateful Patient Fundraising, Stacey A. Tovino
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Grateful patient fundraising, defined as the solicitation of philanthropic donations by health care providers from current and former patients, raises a number of legal and ethical issues. Elsewhere, I detailed the confidentiality issues raised by the use and disclosure of patient identifiable information by hospital development officers, major gifts officers, institutionally-related foundations, and commercial fundraisers, and proposed corrections to federal health information confidentiality regulations to better balance the competing aims of health care philanthropy and health information confidentiality. In this Article, I analyze several outstanding issues raised by physician involvement in grateful patient fundraising. That is, physicians who solicit philanthropic …