Washington University Law Review

Article Title

Innovations in the Organization of Health Services: Inhibiting vs. Permissive Regulation

Authors

Edward H. Forgotson, U.C.L.A. School of Medicine
Ruth Roemer, U.C.L.A. School of Medicine
Roger W. Newman, George Washington University

Publication Title

Washington University Law Quarterly

Abstract

This Article concerns the effect of current legal rules upon the possibility of developing non-profit, consumer-sponsored, prepaid comprehensive health-service programs. Concomitantly considered are the effects of existing law upon physician sponsored plans, such as Blue Shield, and upon institutional practice under which non-profit hospitals or other institutions employ salaried physicians. The legal areas covered include: (1) Rules prohibiting the corporate practice of medicine; (2) Enabling acts permitting the operation of prepaid health-service plans; (3) Insurance codes and regulations protecting the public against fraudulent or financially unstable prepayment plans; and (4) Restraint-of-trade rules protecting prepayment plans against harassment and interference.

Recommended Citation

Edward H. Forgotson, Ruth Roemer, and Roger W. Newman, Innovations in the Organization of Health Services: Inhibiting vs. Permissive Regulation, 1967 Wash. U. L. Q. 400 (1967).
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol1967/iss3/5