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Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Law and Ethics
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Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Law and Ethics by Dean Harris examines the most important legal and ethical issues in healthcare and presents essential information that will help students learn to identify and tackle potential legal problems.
This revised edition includes new information and extensive updates on topics such as:
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA), including legal requirements about health insurance and health reform
- Legal challenges to mandated contraceptive coverage
- Legal obligations for tax-exempt hospitals under the ACA and federal regulations
- Changes to Medicare and Medicaid
- Changes to laws about abortion and physician-assisted suicide
- Privacy of medical information
- Reform of medical malpractice laws.
Harris is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches courses on health law, ethics, and comparative health systems. Professor Harris practiced law from 1981 to 1999, with a primary focus on representation of healthcare organizations and providers.
The latest edition also expands the use of activity-based learning, applying legal principles to a set of facts for greater comprehension.
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