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Antitrust laws touch upon a wide range of conduct and business relationships in the delivery of health care services, and the issues that should be of concern to health care organizations are described. Health Care Antitrust provides practical overviews of the principal legal issues relating to health care antitrust, as well as a general understanding of antitrust analysis as applied to contractual relationships and business strategies that present antitrust risks in a managed care environment.

Federal and state law restrictions on financial relationships between health care providers have undergone significant growth in the past decade. As the health care industry consolidates to form managed care systems and networks of providers, the financial relationship between providers becomes crucial in determining what referrals, marketing strategies, and billing practices are permissible. Defining the boundaries of permissible conduct under a myriad of statutes at both the federal and state level has become a difficult undertaking. This manual offers a variety of tools to assist attorneys and providers in understanding the complexities of the so-called Stark laws and regulations as well and presents a comprehensive state-by-state review of referral laws. Definitions, hypothetical case studies, full text of laws, regulations, and advisory opinions, corporate compliance polices relating to physician referrals, and checklists for determining the legality of specific financial arrangements make this an invaluable resource.

Presents a book/disk home care compliance tool to help directors of home care agencies understand and comply with Joint Commission standards and other requirements for home care. Coverage encompasses federal, state, and local laws, liability concerns, and Joint Commission requirements. Explains lega

Never before has there been more help to comply with complex pharmacy department regulations. In Pharmacy Department Compliance Manual, you get everything you need to stay in compliance. 1) Legal compliance questions and answers: Find the legal answers you need in seconds. 2) Joint Commission survey questions and answers: Get inside guidance from colleagues who have been there. 3) Hospital accreditation standard analysis: Learn about Joint Commission standards as they apply To The pharmacy department. 4) Reference materials for pharmacy department compliance: All the tools you need to comply with pharmacy-related regulations, laws, and accreditation standards. Includes a diskette containing many of the forms, policies, procedures, and other documentation within the Reference Materials section.

Never before has there been more help to comply with complex pharmacy department regulations. In Pharmacy Department Compliance Manual, you get everything you need to stay in compliance. 1) Legal compliance questions and answers: Find the legal answers you need in seconds. 2) Joint Commission survey questions and answers: Get inside guidance from colleagues who have been there. 3) Hospital accreditation standard analysis: Learn about Joint Commission standards as they apply To The pharmacy department. 4) Reference materials for pharmacy department compliance: All the tools you need to comply with pharmacy-related regulations, laws, and accreditation standards. Includes a diskette containing many of the forms, policies, procedures, and other documentation within the Reference Materials section.

Here's what you need to comply with the latest perinatal regulations. In Hospital Perinatal Compliance Manual, you get everything you need to stay in compliance: 1) Legal compliance questions and answers: Find the legal answers you need in seconds, including coverage of the latest issues in perinatal law and regulation. 2) Joint Commission survey questions and answers: Get inside guidance from colleagues who were surveyed under current standards. 3) Hospital accreditation standard analysis: Learn about the latest Joint Commission standards as they apply to perinatal departments, including new requirements issued for 2002. 4) Reference materials for perinatal compliance: All the tools you need to comply with perinatal-related regulations, laws, and accreditation standards, including forms, policies and procedures recently reviewed by the Joint Commission. Includes a diskette containing many of the forms, policies, procedures, and other documentation within the Reference Materials section.

Dealing with the subject of employment discrimination in the health care industry, this book is one of a series of concise volumes which give the facts needed to understand today's most critical legal issues and make informed decisions upon them. These handbooks also show health care operations how to comply with the range of laws which affect them.

Here's more help to comply with complex emergency department regulations. In Emergency Department Compliance Manual, 2002 Edition, you get everything you need to stay in compliance. 1) Legal compliance questions and answers: Find the legal answers you need in seconds. 2) Joint Commission survey questions and answers: Get inside guidance from colleagues who have been there. 3) Hospital accreditation standard analysis: Learn about Joint Commission standards as they apply To The emergency department. 4) Reference materials for emergency department compliance: All the tools you need to comply with emergency department-related regulations, laws, and accreditation standards. Includes a diskette containing many of the forms, policies, procedures, and other documentation within the Reference Materials section.

Here's more help to comply with ever-changing complex radiology department regulations. In the Fourth Edition of Radiology Department Compliance Manual, you get everything you need to stay in compliance. 1) Legal compliance questions and answers: Find the legal answers you need in seconds, updated to reflect changes in the law through 2000. 2) Joint Commission survey questions and answers: Get inside guidance from colleagues who were surveyed in the last year. 3) Hospital accreditation standard analysis: Learn about Joint Commission standards as they apply to the radiology department including new requirements issued for 2001. 4) Reference materials for radiology department compliance: All the tools you need to comply with radiology department-related regulations, laws, and accreditation standards. Sample documentation updated for this new edition include forms, policies, and procedures recently reviewed by the Joint Commission. 5) A diskette contains many of the forms, policies, procedures, and other documentation within the Reference Materials section.