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The Three Faces Of Retainer Care: Crafting A Tailored Regulatory Response, Frank Pasquale
The Three Faces Of Retainer Care: Crafting A Tailored Regulatory Response, Frank Pasquale
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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 …
What Have We Here? The Need For Transparent Pricing And Quality Information In Health Care: Creation Of An Sec For Health Care, Keith T. Peters
What Have We Here? The Need For Transparent Pricing And Quality Information In Health Care: Creation Of An Sec For Health Care, Keith T. Peters
Journal of Health Care Law and Policy
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