Westlaw Healthcare Analytical

1. Comprehensive and timely analysis in this
rapidly changing area of law.
Healthcare Analytical is an ideal resource for attorneys who represent:
• Healthcare providers
• Patients
• Hospitals and health systems
• Health maintenance organizations
Its detailed analysis combined with superior organization of information enables you to
find expert guidance quickly.
AHLA’s Health Law Practice Guide, 2d
This treatise takes you through the many
legal issues affecting healthcare payors and
providers, offering you clear, comprehensive
guidance on day-to-day healthcare legal issues.
Food and Drug Administration, 3d
An encyclopedic legal guide to practice and
procedure, this resource includes federal Food
and Drug Administration (FDA) practices,
administrative enforcement, court proceedings,
and standard FDA forms. The guide also
provides comprehensive updates to recent
and significant caselaw developments that
clarify and help define the application of
FDCA and other healthcare statutory and
regulatory materials.
Health Care and Antitrust Law
This resource provides comprehensive foot-
notes and consolidates information from
many hard-to-find sources, making available
all the information you need to quickly and
efficiently research your issue. You can also
access analysis of all antitrust issues affecting
doctors, hospitals, laboratories, and long-term
care facilities, together with an overview of
how antitrust principles uniquely apply to
each different healthcare industry segment.
Health Care Financial Transactions Manual
Use the manual’s seven-step analysis for
identifying issues, then quickly find all the
legislation and regulations needed to
evaluate healthcare transactions. The
manual analyzes changes of ownership,
reimbursement implications and distressed
facilities. Plus, it gives you an overview of the
healthcare industry and applicable federal
and state laws, and examines restrictions on
physician financial arrangements, fraud and
abuse, and ownership disclosure.
Health Law Handbook, 2009 Ed.
This well-regarded annual resource covers
topics of timely interest in the health law
practice area. The insights and knowledge of
national health law experts focus on some of
the most important and cutting-edge issues
in health law today.
Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse,
2009 Ed.
This comprehensive and practical guide to
Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse offers
real-life scenarios and implementation insights
in the application of complex regulatory
provisions. The thoughtful analysis and clear
explanations will enable you to advise your
clients on effective compliance, while
answering their questions about gray areas.
Patient Care Decision-Making
This guide provides a balanced analysis
of both the rights of patients and the
responsibilities of healthcare providers by
combining general guidelines, caselaw, and
theoretical discussions. It also provides
healthcare practitioners step-by-step
guidance to the procedural and substantive
aspects of medical decision-making.
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WESTLAW Healthcare Analytical
• Health insurers
• Managed care providers
• Nursing and long-term care facilities
• Home care providers

2. Westlaw content included
AHLA’s Health Law Practice Guide, 2d
• Walks you through scores of legal issues affecting
healthcare payors and providers
• Guidance on handling day-to-day legal issues
• For fast information retrieval, content is organized into
five major categories:
– Operational issues for healthcare facilities
– Patient care delivery
– Payment issues
– Transactions
– Legal concerns in specific healthcare delivery settings
• Updated three times a year
Food and Drug Administration, 3d
• FDA structure, history, and policy-making
• Administrative enforcement
• Civil and criminal actions
• Food safety and quality issues
• Insights on topics such as:
– Biotechnology
– Drug and device approval requirements
– State food and drug regulations
• Updated twice a year
Health Care and Antitrust Law
• Analysis from more than 30 different sources
• All antitrust issues affecting doctors, hospitals,
laboratories, and long-term care facilities
• How antitrust principles apply to different segments of
the healthcare industry
• Updated three times a year
Health Care Financial Transactions Manual
• Convenient seven-step analysis for identifying issues
• Legislation and regulations needed to evaluate
healthcare transactions
• Analysis of reimbursement implications, changes of
ownership, and distressed facilities
• Restrictions on physician financial arrangements, fraud
and abuse, and ownership disclosure
• Quick-reference guide to healthcare industry
players and payors
• Updated twice a year
Health Law Handbook
• Focuses on the latest healthcare developments
• Provides analysis on healthcare trends
• Topical treatment of important healthcare issues, such as:
– Enrolling and staying in Medicare
– Medicare physician payment
thwarting quality
– “Concierge” medicine
– Healthcare tax law for non-tax lawyers
– Hospital facility access
– A practical approach to clinical integration
– Hospital-physician collaborations
– Update on fraud and abuse
– Compliance in academic medical centers
– The “medical model” of governance
– Never events
– Medical apology laws and adverse
event reporting
– Avoiding health lawyer liability
– E-discovery and healthcare practicalities
• New edition annually
Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse
• Current healthcare fraud and abuse issues
• Full discussion of state and federal law,
plus administrative and court decisions
• Analysis of the issues behind the laws and regulations
• Explanation of provisions of the Balanced Budget Act of
1997 and the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996
• Presents caselaw, paying particular attention to current
healthcare fraud and abuse issues
• Updated annually
Patient Care Decision-Making
• General guidelines
• Caselaw
• Rights of patients
• Responsibilities of healthcare providers
• Step-by-step guidance
• Public printing and documents
• Consensual treatment
• Right to refuse treatment
• Privacy and confidentiality
• Autopsies and anatomical gifts
• Updated annually
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Healthcare Analytical
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JEAN-PAUL DE LAUREAL
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