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Laws restricting health insurers' use of genetic information: impact on genetic discriminationM A Hall
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Am J Hum Genet 66:293-307. 2000..Although insurers and agents are only vaguely aware of these laws, the laws have shaped industry norms and attitudes about the legitimacy of using this information...
Managed care patient protection or provider protection? A qualitative assessmentMark A Hall
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1063, USA
Am J Med 117:932-7. 2004..This claim is assessed through a large qualitative study of state managed care patient protection laws...- Malpractice litigation reform: empirical approaches to establishing the legal standard of careMark A Hall
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston Salem, NC 27109 7206, USA
J Med Pract Manage 19:279-82. 2004.... - The scope and limits of public health lawMark A Hall
School of Law, Wake Forest University, P O Box 7206, Winston Salem, NC 27109 7206, USA
Perspect Biol Med 46:S199-209. 2003..It should not extend to diseases viewed as resulting from social, economic, and political conditions... - Liability implications of physician-directed care coordinationMark A Hall
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston Salem, NC 27109 7206, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:115-21. 2005..Various public and private initiatives encourage physicians to coordinate care for patients who have multiple chronic conditions, but physicians may resist doing so for fear of liability. This article assesses the extent of liability risk... - The role of independent agents in the success of health insurance market reformsM A Hall
Wake Forest University, School of Medicine, Department of Public Health Sciences, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Milbank Q 78:23-45, i-ii. 2000..Despite the layer of cost that agents add to the system, they play an important role in making market reforms work, and they fill essential information and service functions for which many purchasers have no ready substitute... - Purchasing cooperatives for small employers: performance and prospectsE K Wicks
Wake Forest University, USA
Milbank Q 78:511-46, iii. 2000..Among the important impediments to their success are limited support from health plans and conflicts over the role of insurance agents... - Patients as consumers: courts, contracts, and the new medical marketplaceMark A Hall
Wake Forest University, USA
Mich Law Rev 106:643-89. 2008..This Article proposes legal solutions to the plight of the patient-as-consumer and asks what that plight tells us about market solutions to the health-care quandary... - The impact of state managed care liability statutesMark A Hall
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 22:138-45. 2003..This suggests that a federal liability statute is not likely to greatly increase liability exposure unless it allows such suits... - Health insurers' medical necessity determinations for bariatric surgeryMark A Hall
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1063, USA
Surg Obes Relat Dis 1:86-90. 2005..This study explored how state managed-care patient protection laws affect health insurers' criteria for medical necessity, using bariatric surgery for weight reduction as a case in point... - The impact and enforcement of prudent layperson lawsMark A Hall
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, NC 27157 1063, USA
Ann Emerg Med 43:558-66. 2004..This study evaluates whether these laws are achieving their goals or causing unintended side effects... - Of magic wands and kaleidoscopes: fixing problems in the individual marketMark A Hall
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University Medical School, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) . 2002..What is not acceptable is to hand people subsidies and send them to the unstructured and relatively unregulated individual market, nor will it work to give people unhindered choice between two basically different market segments... - Law, medicine, and trustMark A Hall
Wake Forest University, USA
J Nurs Law 9:33-84. 2003 - HealthMarts, HIPCs (health insurance purchasing cooperatives), MEWAs (multiple employee welfare arrangements), and AHPs (association health plans): a guide for the perplexedM A Hall
Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 20:142-53. 2001..On balance, although these proposals should receive cautious and careful consideration, they are not likely to produce a significant overall reduction in premiums or increase in coverage... - Employers' liability risk for managed care injuriesMark A Hall
Wake Forest University School of Law, USA
Benefits Q 22:45-8. 2006.... - The death of managed care: a regulatory autopsyMark A Hall
Wake Forest University, USA
J Health Polit Policy Law 30:427-52. 2005..However, patient protection laws interacted with other social and market forces, through complex forms of feedback and reinforcement, to bring about more thoroughgoing change than would have otherwise occurred... - Measuring trust in medical researchersMark A Hall
Wake Forest University, Department of Social Science and Health Policy, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1063, USA
Med Care 44:1048-53. 2006..This project aims to enable more rigorous study of researcher trust by developing and testing appropriate survey measures... - The importance of trust for ethics, law, and public policyMark A Hall
Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
Camb Q Healthc Ethics 14:156-67. 2005 - For-profit conversion of Blue Cross plans: public benefit or public harm?Mark A Hall
Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 27:443-63. 2006.... - Do employers voluntarily include patient protections in self-insured managed care plans?Janice S Lawlor
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina 27157 1063, USA
Manag Care Interface 18:76-80. 2005..Less common in these plans were features providing for independent external appeal of coverage denials and for protecting network providers from undue influence by plan administrators... - Law, medicine, and trustMark A Hall
Wake Forest University, USA
Stanford Law Rev 55:463-527. 2002 
The three types of reinsurance created by federal health reformMark A Hall
Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 29:1168-72. 2010..This article explains the structure of and purpose for each reinsurance provision and why it should no longer be needed once reinsurance helps launch health reform safely...- Researching medical trust in the United StatesMark A Hall
Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
J Health Organ Manag 20:456-67. 2006..This article reviews research in the U.S.A. bearing on trust in physicians and medical institutions... - Reviving managed care with health savings accountsMark A Hall
Department of Public Health Sciences, at Wake Forest University Medical School, in Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 24:1490-500. 2005.... - Genetic enhancement, distributive justice, and the goals of medicineMark A Hall
Wake Forest University, USA
San Diego Law Rev 39:669-81. 2002 - Development of a scale to measure patients' trust in health insurersBeiyao Zheng
Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1063, USA
Health Serv Res 37:187-202. 2002..Additional studies are required to learn more about what factors affect insurer trust and whether differences and changes in insurer trust affect actual behaviors and other outcomes of interest... - Effects of state managed care patient protection laws on physician satisfactionFrank A Sloan
Center for Health Policy Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Med Care Res Rev 64:585-99. 2007.... - Impacts of managed care patient protection laws on health services utilization and patient satisfaction with careFrank A Sloan
Duke University, 125 Old Chemistry Bldg, Box 90253, Durham, NC 27708, USA
Health Serv Res 40:647-67. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Enactment of managed care patient protection laws did not generally increase utilization of health services or improve patient satisfaction with care... - The role of state regulation in consumer-driven health careTimothy S Jost
Washington and Lee University School of Law, USA
Am J Law Med 31:395-418. 2005 - Effects of disclosing financial interests on attitudes toward clinical researchKevin P Weinfurt
Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27715, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:860-6. 2008..The effects of disclosing financial interests to potential research participants are not well understood... - Comparison of conflict of interest policies and reported practices in academic medical centers in the United StatesMichaela A Dinan
Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC 27715, USA
Account Res 13:325-42. 2006..Considerable differences in understanding of conflict of interest policies were observed between IRB and COIC officials... - The HIPAA headacheMark A Hall
Hastings Cent Rep 38:7; author reply 8. 2008 - Disclosing conflicts of interest in clinical research: views of institutional review boards, conflict of interest committees, and investigatorsKevin P Weinfurt
Duke University School of Medicine, USA
J Law Med Ethics 34:581-91, 481. 2006.... 
Development of abbreviated measures to assess patient trust in a physician, a health insurer, and the medical professionElizabeth Dugan
Division of Geriatric Medicine, The University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
BMC Health Serv Res 5:64. 2005..The objective of this study was to develop three abbreviated scales to measure trust in: (1) a physician, (2) a health insurer, and (3) the medical profession...- Rethinking professional ethics in the cost-sharing eraG Caleb Alexander
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Am J Bioeth 6:W17-22. 2006.... - Evidence-based medicine on trialMark A Hall
JAMA 291:1697; author reply 1698. 2004 - Measuring patients' trust in physicians when assessing quality of careDavid H Thom
University of California, San Francisco, USA
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:124-32. 2004..Several validated measures could be easily included in surveys. While further studies to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of measuring trust and test interventions to improve trust are desirable, the action merits serious consideration... - Policies of academic medical centers for disclosing financial conflicts of interest to potential research participantsKevin P Weinfurt
Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics, Duke Clinical Research Institute, P O Box 17969, Durham, NC 27715, USA
Acad Med 81:113-8. 2006.... - Trust and satisfaction with physicians, insurers, and the medical professionRajesh Balkrishnan
Department of Management and Policy Sciences, University of Texas, School of Public Health, Houston, Texas 77225, USA
Med Care 41:1058-64. 2003..However, little is known about how similar or different these types of trust are in reality and the relationship of trust with satisfaction...