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Full-Text Articles in Medical Jurisprudence
Overtreatment And Informed Consent: A Fraud-Based Solution To Unwanted And Unnecessary Care, Isaac D. Buck
Overtreatment And Informed Consent: A Fraud-Based Solution To Unwanted And Unnecessary Care, Isaac D. Buck
Florida State University Law Review
According to multiple accounts, the administration of American health care results in as much as $800 billion in wasted spending due largely to the provision of overly expensive, inefficient, and unnecessary services. Beyond inflicting fiscal pain on the nation’s pocketbook, this waste has no clinical benefit—and often results in unnecessary hospital stays, cascading follow-up procedures, and time-wasting inconvenience for American patients. But aside from the mere annoyance of unnecessary care, the administration of overtreatment—that is, unnecessary care in and of itself—causes harm to the patient. Excessive care is deficient care. Unnecessary care risks potential medical error and infection, and often …
Irreconcilable Differences: Why The Doctor-Patient Relationship Is Disintegrating At The Hands Of Health Maintenance Organizations And Wall Street, Mark O. Hiepler, Brian C. Dunn
Irreconcilable Differences: Why The Doctor-Patient Relationship Is Disintegrating At The Hands Of Health Maintenance Organizations And Wall Street, Mark O. Hiepler, Brian C. Dunn
Pepperdine Law Review
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Criminal Prosecution For Hmo Treatment Denial, John A. Humbach
Criminal Prosecution For Hmo Treatment Denial, John A. Humbach
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
This article will first provide a brief examination of the economic pressures that market forces bring to bear on HMOs and their decision-making personnel. The objective is to show how the natural effect of normal market forces is to exert a constant pressure towards treatment delays and denials, particularly in the cases of elderly and chronically ill patients. Part III will provide an overview of the existing criminal law as it applies to situations in which death results because someone has violated a legal duty to provide medical treatment. In Part IV, the question of the requisite mental culpability will …
Provider-Sponsored Alternative Health Care Delivery Systems: Reducing Antitrust Liability After Maricopa, James H. Walsh, Howard Feller
Provider-Sponsored Alternative Health Care Delivery Systems: Reducing Antitrust Liability After Maricopa, James H. Walsh, Howard Feller
University of Richmond Law Review
The phenomenal rate of inflation experienced by the health care industry in the past several years has been a substantial cause of concern for everyone affected-physicians, hospitals, insurers, employers and consumers. Public reaction to the tremendous increase in health care costs has created pressure on health care providers to compete on the basis of price and to deliver services more efficiently. The recent growth of alternative health care delivery systems (ADSs) has been a direct response to a number of problems created by increasing health care costs including increased competition in health care delivery, resistance by payors and consumers to …