Holding health care accountable : law and the new medical marketplace /
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| Author / Creator: | Morreim, E. Haavi. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2001. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 320 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11178344 |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- PART I: JURISPRUDENTIAL PROBLEMS
- Chapter 2. Physicians and Tort Liability
- A. Economic Upheaval
- B. Inadequacies of Current Malpractice Tort Law
- C. Recasting Physicians' Duty of Care
- D. Conclusion: The Traditional Custom-Based Approach to Setting the Medical Standard of Care Should Be Abandoned, and a New Approach to Physicians' Malpractice Liability Should Be Identified
- Chapter 3. Health Plans and Tort Liability
- A. Historical Overview
- B. Growth of Liability for Health Plans.
- C. Challenges in Ascribing Tort Liability to Health Plans
- Chapter 4. Health Plans and Contract Liability
- A. Obstacles to Effective Contracting
- B. Consequences of Ineffective Contracting
- PART II: ADDRESSING THE PROBLEMS: RESHAPING LEGAL STANDARDS
- Chapter 5. Pinpointing the Issues
- A. Two Prospective Answers to the Jurisprudential Dilemmas
- B. The Real Dispute: Who Should Control What
- C. Who Should Control What: Seeking a Reasonable Balance
- Chapter 6. A Basic Distinction
- A. Expertise
- B. Resources
- C. Litigating Breaches of Duty: Expertise Versus Resources.
- Chapter 7. Reshaping Liability for Physicians
- A. Physicians and Expertise
- B. Physicians and Resources
- Chapter 8. Reshaping Liability for Health Plans: Expertise and Tort
- A. Duties of Expertise in Four Domains
- B. Reducing Corporations' Practice of Medicine
- C. Tort Litigation for Breach of Expertise Duties
- Chapter 9. Reshaping Liability for Health Plans: Resources and Contract
- A. Conditions for Effective Contracting
- B. Guidelines-Based Contracting: Choosing and Enforcing Resource Entitlements and Resource Limits.
- PART Ill: ASSESSING THE PROPOSED APPROACH: PROSPECTS FOR JUDICIAL ACCEPTANCE
- Chapter 10. Judicial Acceptability
- A. Physicians' Liabilities
- B. Health Plans' Liabilities: Expertise and Tort
- C. Health Plans' Liabilities: Resources and Contract
- D. Implications for Litigation
- E. Summary
- Chapter 11. Special Issues In ERISA
- A. Quality-Quantity: Paralleling The Expertise-Resource Distinction
- B. Quality-Quantity: A Flawed Distinction
- C. Fixing the Problems: ERISA and Resource Issues
- D. ERISA's Future
- Chapter 12. Reflections
- Notes
- References
- Table of Cases.
- Index
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