Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation and Compromise

Contents

List of Tables xv

1 Introduction: The History, Policies,
and Structures That Shape Health
Care Regulation 3

2 Regulation of Physicians and Other
Health Care Professionals 18

3 Regulation of Hospitals and Other
Health Care Institutions 39

4 Regulation and Administration of
Health Care Finance 69

5 Regulation of Drugs and Health
Care Products 105

6 Regulation of Public Health 129

7 Regulation of Health Care Business
Relationships 159

8 Regulation and Funding of Research 188

9 New Regulatory Horizons and Old
Policy Conflicts 216

Appendix A: List of Major Health Care Regulatory Agencies and Organizations 231

Appendix B: Chronology of Significant Developments in Public Health
Regulation 237

Appendix C: List of Acronyms 239

Notes 243

Selected Bibliography 285

Index 321