Holding health care accountable : law and the new medical marketplace /

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Author / Creator:Morreim, E. Haavi.
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
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ISBN:9780199748945
0199748942
0195141326
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-305) and index.
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Other form:Print version: Morreim, E. Haavi. Holding health care accountable. New York : Oxford University Press, 2001
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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