Managing Legal Compliance In The Health Care Industry

Managing Legal Compliance in the Health Care Industry is a comprehensive text that prepares students for this increasingly critical field in health care administration. In three sections, this unique title first examines all the key laws and regulations that health care organizations must comply with. In section two, it explores in detail the seven essential ingredients for a good compliance program. In the final section, the book explains how the compliance program must be adapted to the special needs of different types of health care organizations. Designed for graduate level students in programs of public health, health administration, and law, the text is filled with highly practical information about the ways that legal violations occur and how good compliance programs function. Key Features: - Examines in detail the current laws and regulations with which all types of health care organizations must comply - Explore the seven essential ingredients for a good compliance program - Looks at compliance programs within twelve different types of health care organizations - References real world cases of fraud and abuse - Includes Study Questions and Learning Experiences in each chapter that are designed to encourage critical thinking

Managing Legal Compliance in the Health Care Industry is a comprehensive resource that will prepare you to build and manage successful compliance programs for any healthcare service or industry. In three sections, this unique title first examines all the key laws and regulations with which healthcare organizations must comply. In section two, the author explores in detail the seven essential ingredients for a good compliance program. In the final section, the book explains how the compliance program must be adapted to the special needs of different types of healthcare organizations."--Pub. desc.

Regulatory Compliance in the Healthcare Industry: Navigating the Complexities" is a comprehensive guide that equips healthcare professionals with the knowledge and strategies needed to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. Authored by experts in healthcare compliance, this book covers key topics such as patient privacy, data security, quality of care and compliance program development. Real-world case studies, best practices and practical tools make this book an essential resource for healthcare professionals, compliance officers and administrators seeking to navigate the intricate landscape of regulatory compliance and promote ethical practices in the ever-evolving healthcare industry.

Now more than ever, doctors are being targeted by government prosecutors and whistleblowers challenging the legality of their relationships with drug and device companies. With reputations at stake and the risk of civil and criminal liability, it is incumbent upon doctors to protect themselves. Managing Relationships with Industry: A Physician’s Compliance Manual is an indispensable resource for doctors, professional societies, academic medical centers, community hospitals, and group practices struggling to understand the ever changing law and ethical standards on interactions with pharmaceutical and device companies. It is the first comprehensive summary of the law and ethics on physician relationships with industry written for the physician. Authored by a former state Attorney General, Harvard Medical School Professor, health care lawyer and professor of ethics, Managing Relationships approaches the topic from a balanced and reasoned perspective adding to the on-going national dialogue and debate on the proper limits to medicine’s relationship with industry. The first complete and up-to-date summary and analysis of the law and ethics on physician-industry relationships Focuses on major enforcement actions and whistleblower lawsuits and the lessons learned for physicians Provides options and guidance for maintaining compliant relationships and avoiding traps for the unwary Covers both drug and device company relationships Summarizes the types of industry relationships that are necessary and productive and those that are harmful and abusive Details the law and ethics for each type of relationship including gifts, off-label uses and marketing, CME, speaker’s bureaus, free samples, grants, consulting arrangements, etc. Includes sample contracts for permissible consulting and CME speaker engagements

Written to reflect the realities of the 21st century, Principles of Health Care Management considers the many outside forces influencing health care institutions, and in doing so provides a progressive and modern reference on how to effectively manage a health organization.

Health Care Management and the Law-2nd Edition is a comprehensive practical health law text relevant to students seeking the basic management skills required to work in health care organizations, as well as students currently working in health care organizations. This text is also relevant to those general health care consumers who are simply attempting to navigate the complex American health care system. Every attempt is made within the text to support health law and management theory with practical applications to current issues.