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From page 175...
... Federal Trade Commission, 167 views on patents, 128 views on physician advertising, 128 views on physician ownership of health care facilities, 130-132 American Medicorp, 46-47 American Osteopathic Association, 19 Arizona v. Maricopa County Medical Society, 166-167 B boards of directors, 18, 44, 88 of for-prof~t hospitals, 136 of nonprofit hospitals, 20-21 open meetings of, 29-30 quality of care and, 22 Brookwood Health Services, 46, 47 C capital costs bond financing, 26, 28 certificate of need (CON)
From page 176...
... American Medical Association, 167 Federation of American Hospitals, 52 fee splitting, 104, 129-130 fiduciary law, 153-167 financial differences, for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, 24, 26-29 for-profit hospitals, see hospital management companies G General Care Corporation, 46 H health care as a commodity, 142-143 Index costs of, 64-66 future of, 8-10 quality of, 66 health maintenance organizations (HMOs) , 95, 108, 112-114, 118120, 154 health systems agencies (HSAs)
From page 177...
... , 154 indigent care, 53, 54, 56-57, 59, 67, 147 177 investor-owned hospitals, see hospital management companies J Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, 19, 22 L acute care beds owned by, 36 (table) net revenue, 36 stock ownership, 40 stock prices, 41 M malpractice, 155-156, 162-163 Medicaid, 25, 27, 43, 81-82, 146, 159 medical ethics, 7, 9 altruism and, 140-141, 148 Anglo-American, 126-127, 132 Chinese, 126, 133-134 clinical decisions and, 74, 90-92, 133-134 commercialization and, 134-135 competitor's use of outdated information and, 145-146 deonto logical versus con sequentialist, 141-142 double agent problem and, 143144 fee splitting and, 129-130 for-profit health care and, 1-16, 125-149 history of, 126-132 international context of, 125-127 lying and deception and, 144-145 patents and, 128 pharmaceuticals and, 128-129 philosophical evaluations and, 138-148 physician ownership of health care facilities and, 130-131
From page 178...
... . pnys~c~ans advertising by, 7, 127-128, 132133 altruism and, 140-141, 148 Index as advisors, 157, 160-161 as agents, 107-108, 164-165 control of decisions and fees, 133134 fiduciary law and, 153-157 hospital governance and, 81-82 ownership of health care facilities, 130-131 professional autonomy of, 5-8, 135 professional stance of, 134-136 self-regulation and, 148 supply of, 4, 96 professional standards review organizations (PSROs)


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