California Physician's Legal Handbook
The 2010 California Physician's Legal Handbook includes new updates to critical health law topic areas in a myriad legal environment that is rapidly changing. This year's edition offers easily-digestible content that includes new sections and sample forms such as: Red Flags Rule compliance toolkit, ARRA and medical records, hospital outpatient clinics, California timely access regulations, end-of-life issues and POLST Kit, emergency transfer laws and negotiating on-call agreements, amongst other updates.
Chapters include:
- ADA/Discrimination
- Adverse Events: Patient Safety and Infection Control
- Advertising
- AIDS/HIV
- Allied Health Professionals
- Ancillary Services
- Antitrust
- Business Prohibitions/Disclosure
- Clinical Laboratories
- Consent
- Death/Organ Donation
- Drug Prescribing/Dispensing
- Drug Testing
- eMedicine
- Emergency Transfer
- Expert Witness Issues
- Forgoing Life-Sustaining Treatment
- Fraud and Abuse (2 chapters)
- Managed Care (4 chapters)
- Medical Board (2 chapters)
- Medical Practice (2 chapters)
- Medical Records (4 chapters)
- Medical Staffs
- Medi-Cal & Medicare
- OSHA/Office Safety
- Outpatient Facilities
- Peer Review
- Physician-Patient Relationship
- Professional Liability
- Reimbursement (3 chapters)
- Reporting Requirements (2 chapters)
- Reproductive Issues
- Warning Obligations
- Workers' Compensation
The handy CD provides the following enhancements:
- fully searchable content
- hyperlinks that let you navigate within the CD-Rom and onto the Web
- Hyperlinks to Findlaw for access to the cited court cases
Testimonials:
“CPLH is an invaluable tool to get quick answers to complicated legal research questions.” Renee A. Richards, Medical Malpractice Defense Attorney, Hassard Bonnington, LLP.
“The CPLH is simply the single most helpful thorough tool I use to do my job. I have been able to discontinue a variety of my other CLE materials.” Pauline Fox, General Counsel, Permanente Foundation, LLC.
CPLH 2010 is produced through the generous support of our partners:
- NORCAL Mutual Insurance Company
- The Doctors Company
- CAP-MPT
- Medical Insurance Exchange of CA
