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The Three Faces Of Retainer Care: Crafting A Tailored Regulatory Response, Frank Pasquale

Faculty Scholarship

Retainer care arrangements allow patients to pay a fee directly to a physician's office in order to obtain special access to care. Practices usually convert to retainer status by concentrating their attention on a small panel and dropping the majority of their patients. Proponents call retainer care a triumph of consumer-directed health care; opponents deride it as boutique medicine. Both sides are deploying a variety of legal tactics in order to attain their goals.

After surveying these conflicts, this article clarifies what is at stake by analyzing the three key features of retainer care: preventive care, queue-jumping, and amenity-bundling. Most …

Civil Authority Order Provisions In Business Interruption Insurance Policies: Why The Unique Circumstances Surrounding The Hurricane Katrina Evacuation Will Result In More Policyholder Recoveries Than Those Received By 9/11 Policyholders, Jennifer Cook

Student Articles and Papers

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The Lost Legislative History Of The Equal Rights Amendment: Lessons From The Unpublished 1983 Markup By The House Judiciary Committee, Paul Taylor, Philip G. Kiko

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act Of 2008: History, Successes, And Future Considerations, Christine Formas Norris

University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender and Class

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