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The Impact Of Michigan's Health Maintenance Organization Act, Roger Alan Petzke Jan 1975

The Impact Of Michigan's Health Maintenance Organization Act, Roger Alan Petzke

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Growing dissatisfaction with the shortcomings of the traditional system of health care has led to renewed interest in the Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) concept in recent years. Although some HMO's have been operating in the United States for over forty years, conditions have been less than favorable to their growth and development. Major obstacles have been opposition from the medical profession, lack of public understanding about the nature and function of HMO's, and state laws restricting or prohibiting the establishment of HMO's. In order to create a more favorable legal climate and encourage HMO development, a number of states, including …

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The Patient Rights Advocate: Redefining The Doctor-Patient Relationship In The Hospital Context, George J. Annas, Joseph M. Healey, Jr. Mar 1974

The Patient Rights Advocate: Redefining The Doctor-Patient Relationship In The Hospital Context, George J. Annas, Joseph M. Healey, Jr.

Vanderbilt Law Review

To change the traditional doctor-patient relationship in the health facility context, one must begin with a complete statement defining the rights, both those legally recognized and those granted as a matter of hospital policy, that should be afforded to all patients. This document should then be made available to all patients and hospital staff and to members of the community in general. Its first purpose is educational. To perform its second purpose-the assurance that rights are afforded--a patient rights advocate system should be adopted in the hospital. The advocate must have the power to exercise, on behalf and at the …

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The Patient Rights Advocate: Redefinig The Doctor-Patient Relationship In The Hospital Context, George J. Annas, Joseph M. Healey Jr. Jan 1974

The Patient Rights Advocate: Redefinig The Doctor-Patient Relationship In The Hospital Context, George J. Annas, Joseph M. Healey Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

As Western man approaches the last quarter of the twentieth century, he is developing the power to control the forces of nature. Few areas of human behavior have not been affected by new technologies. In health care, progress has been dramatic in such areas as the determination of prenatal genetic defects through amniocentesis, asexual reproduction through artificial insemination, the use of an artificial placenta, cloning,artifical modification of man-especially through transplantation, ' modification of human behavior through psychosurgery and chemotherapy,' and the mechanical postponement of death. No aspect of health care has escaped the impact of technology.

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Indigents, Hospital Admissions And Equal Protection, Charles S. Derousie Jan 1972

Indigents, Hospital Admissions And Equal Protection, Charles S. Derousie

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The author surveyed ten hospitals in each of ten states, including hospitals of varying sizes and classifications. Five of the forty-five replies indicated the hospital did not admit all indigents in need of medical care. The primary reason given was that prospective patients not covered by hospital insurance or government programs such as Medicaid or Medicare were usually unable to produce a required preadmission deposit. This practice of requiring a preadmission deposit seems to be common.

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A Proposed Cure For The Intervention Blues, Lawrence E. Hard Apr 1969

A Proposed Cure For The Intervention Blues, Lawrence E. Hard

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This article does not purport to provide a study of the doctrine of subrogation and the merits of that doctrine in the context of insurance coverage. There are several difficult questions which could be raised as to the proper role of subrogation in insurance litigation. This article assumes the propriety of extending the right of subrogation to the type of medical and hospital payment plans offered by the Services and analyses the device of intervention as a method of enforcing the Services' right to contractual subrogation.

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Non-Profit Hospital Service Plans, Leo A. Simpson Jan 1959

Non-Profit Hospital Service Plans, Leo A. Simpson

Cleveland State Law Review

Hospital service plans fulfill a vital social need. In view of the continuing support and apparently expanding activities of the plans, it is well to understand their legal nature. At the present time problems are arising that could not have been foreseen 25 years ago. The favorable treatment which hospital service plans have received under the law should be continued so long as the plans continue realistically to meet these problems as they have in the past.

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