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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 2000
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Fall-Winter 2000
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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What Recourse?—Liability For Managed Care Decisions And The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Wendy K. Mariner
What Recourse?—Liability For Managed Care Decisions And The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Wendy K. Mariner
Faculty Scholarship
Should managed-care organizations be accountable to patients injured by the company's negligence or wrongdoing? The general rule is that all organizations, including managed-care organizations, are legally liable for causing personal injury as a result of their own negligence or the negligence of their employees or agents.1-4 However, as most observers of the U.S. health care system know by now, there is an exception to this basic legal rule of accountability. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) has been interpreted to grant health benefit plans provided by employers or unions (and the managed-care organizations that sell or …
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2000
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2000
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
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Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2000
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Spring 2000
Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Catholic Health Care And The Diocesan Bishop, John J. Coughlin
Catholic Health Care And The Diocesan Bishop, John J. Coughlin
Journal Articles
Over the course of the last decade, the provision of health care in the United States has been undergoing a radical transformation. The days when an insurer, such as Blue Cross and Blue Shield, paid a standard fee to a physician who provided a specified service to an individual patient are passing rapidly. This fee-for-service concept, which characterized American health care from the end of World War II until the 1990s, is being supplanted by a variety of arrangements that fall under the general rubric of "managed care." The fundamental approach of managed care is to provide the patient with …