The Law of Health Care Finance and Regulation, Fifth Edition

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The Law of Health Care Finance and Regulation, Fifth Edition is based on Part III, “Institutions, Providers, and the State,” from Health Care Law and Ethics, Tenth Edition, and adds additional coverage of a variety of issues that have shaped health care finance law. Integrating public health and financial and ethical issues, this casebook uses compelling case law, clear notes, and comprehensive background information to illuminate the complex and dynamic field of health care law. 

New to the Fifth Edition:

• Recent challenges to the Affordable Care Act
• Growth of Medicare Advantage
• Medicaid work requirements
• Private equity investment in health services
• Medical price transparency
• Vertical integration and cross-market mergers

Benefits for instructors and students:

• Based on material in Part III, “Institutions, Providers, and the State,” from the popular parent book, along with coverage of duty to treat, hospital liability, managed care liability, and regulating access to drugs.
• Includes cases and material not found in the parent book on:
  • Universal coverage and foreign health care systems
  • Economic and regulatory theory
  • Judicial and administrative review of Medicare decisions
  • Certificate of need laws
  • Monopolization claims
  • Antitrust immunity
• Integrates public health and ethics issues and features clear notes that provide context, smooth transitions between cases, and background information.
• Provides additional discussion problems not found in the main volume.
• Website, www.health-law.org, provides background materials, updates of important events, additional relevant topics, and links to other resources on the Internet.