The Aba Complete and Easy Guide to Health Care Law: Your Guide to Protecting Your Rights As a Patient, Dealing With Hospitals, Health Insurance, Medicare, and More - Softcover

Members of the American Bar Association share valuable information and guidelines about a patient's legal rights in terms of the American health-care system, explaining how patients can protect themselves, key questions to ask doctors and health-care plan providers, appropriate resources for detailed information, and other consumer issues. Original. 15,000 first printing.

The ABA Complete and Easy Guide to Health Care Law is a comprehensive guide to understanding your rights as a patient and knowing how to move through the health care system. This guide allows you to understand issues about health care to the fullest. Among the issues covered are:

Patients’ Rights: Confidentiality, Privacy, and the Patient’s Bill of Rights; Emergency Care; Informed Consent
Paying for Medical Care: Insurance and Managed Care; COBRA
Reproduction: Assisted Reproductive Technology; Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Pregnancy; Sterilization; Abortion
People with Disabilities: Pregnancy; Confidentiality and Disclosure; Vaccinations; Mandatory Testing; Denoting Tort Liability; Quarantine
Nursing Homes: Choosing a Nursing Home; Paying for Long-Term Care; Medicaid Planning; Alternative Care and Living
Regulating Medical Professionals: Licensing of Doctors, Nurses, and Hospitals; Medical Malpractice; Research on Humans
Death and Dying: Right to Refuse Life-Sustaining Treatment; Hospices; Donating Your Organs; Assisted Suicid