Taking an interdisciplinary, industry-based approach, MCLE's Massachusetts Health and Hospital Law Manual presents the many business and legal issues facing health care providers, payors, and other participants in the health care industry, along with the regulators overseeing them. This comprehensive manual focuses on health care delivery in its legal, business, regulatory, advocacy and personal aspects. Practice pointers and hypotheticals provide concrete guidance as you navigate the federalization, consolidation, bureaucratization, and increasing regulation of this dynamic area of practice.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Payment and Reimbursement for Health Care Services
- State and Federal Administrative Agencies Regulating Health Care Providers
- Hospital Law Basics
- Physicians
- Postacute Care: Skilled Nursing, Assisted Living, Hospice, and Home Health
- Fundamentals of Managed Care
- State Health Care Fraud Enforcement
- Administrative Simplification Provisions of HIPAA
- Biomedical Research
- Patients' Rights
- The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act
Editor(s)
Lawrence W. Vernaglia, Esq.,
Foley & Lardner LLP, Boston
Susan L. Williams, Esq., Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary, Boston
Ethical Commentator(s)
James S. Bolan, Esq.,
Brecher, Wyner, Simons, Fox & Bolan, LLP, Newton Centre
James S. Bolan, Esq.,
Brecher, Wyner, Simons, Fox & Bolan, LLP, Newton Centre
Author(s)
Joshua L. Abrams, Esq., Partners HealthCare System, Inc, Boston
Alan H. Einhorn, Esq.,
Foley & Lardner LLP, Boston
Michele M. Garvin, Esq.,
Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston
David C. Harlow, Esq.,
The Harlow Group LLC, Newton Center
Robin A. Johnson,
Johnson & Aceto, PC, Boston
Emily Kretchmer, Esq.,
Pierce & Mandell, PC, Boston
Lawrence Litwak, Esq., Greif & Litwak, P.C., Wellesley Hills
William M. Mandell, Esq.,
Pierce & Mandell, PC, Boston
Nicholas J. Messuri, Esq., Tufts Health Plan, Watertown
Diane Bissonnette Moes, Esq.,
Donoghue Barrett & Singal, PC, Boston
Carol W. Phillips, Esq., Archstone Law Group, PC, Waltham
Regina S. Rockefeller, Esq.,
Nixon Peabody LLP, Boston
Michael F. Sexton, Esq.,
Ropes & Gray LLP, Boston
Susan Jennifer Stayn, Esq., Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Lawrence W. Vernaglia, Esq.,
Foley & Lardner LLP, Boston
