Ebook: The American Bar Association 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

One: Patients' Rights -- 1. Confidentiality/Privacy and the Patient's Bill of Rights -- 2. Emergency Care -- 3. Informed Consent -- TWO: Paying for Medical Care -- 4. Insurance and Managed Care -- 5. Medicare and Medicaid -- 6. COBRA -- THREE: Reproduction -- 7. Assisted Reproductive Technology -- 8. Wrongful Birth and Wrongful Pregnancy -- 9. Sterilization -- 10. Midwifery and Birthing Choices -- 11. Abortion -- FOUR: People with Disabilities -- 12. People with Disabilities/AIDS -- 13. Pregnancy -- 14. Confidentiality and Disclosure -- 15. Vaccinations -- 16. Mandatory Testing -- 17. Tort Liability -- 18. Quarantine -- FIVE: Nursing Homes -- 19. Choosing a Nursing Home -- 20. Paying for Long-Term Care -- 21. Medicaid Planning -- 22. Alternative Care and Living -- SIX: Regulating Medical Professionals -- 23. Licensing of Doctors, Nurses, and Hospitals -- 24. Medical Malpractice -- 25. Research on Humans -- SEVEN: Death and Dying -- 26. Your Right to Refuse Life-Sustaining Treatment -- 27. Hospice -- 28. Donating Your Organs -- 29. Assisted Suicide -- 30. Where Do you Go from Here? -- Appendix A: Getting Help with Medicare Questions -- Appendix B: Getting Help with Medicaid Questions -- Appendix C: Health Care Advance Directive -- Index.;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 From the Trade Paperback edition.