Health Law Reporter Index-Summary

QUALITY OF CARE

– Boards of directors

– – N.Y., compliance program mandate begins Oct. 1, boards expected to oversee quality, 1041
– – Under scrutiny, attorneys advise, 821

– Chasm has widened, witnesses tell Senate committee, 155
– CIAs, IG soliciting responses from potential monitoring organizations, 1402
– HCQIA

See HEALTH CARE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT ACT (HCQIA)

– Joint Commission medical staff standard working draft under review, 1429
– Legal issues in achieving quality and cost efficiency, BNA Analysis & Perspective, 740
– Mergers, potential for improvement will be part of FTC review, official says, 208
– National standards still not met by many hospitals, Leapfrog survey, 520
– New impatient hospital measures, proposed rule, 602
– N.J. publishes report on inpatient quality indicators, 1186
– N.Y., new law requires hospitals to disclose nursing quality indicators and patient outcomes, 1301
– Nursing homes

See NURSING HOMES

– Outlook 2009, top health law issues, 5
– Pay-for-performance

See PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE PROGRAMS

– Physician ranking

– – Natl. Comm. for Quality Assurance reviews efforts of health plans to meet settlement compliance standards, 31
– – Tex. BCBS plan agrees to stop using cost-based doctor rating system under deal with state attorney general (Tex. Dist. Ct.), 496

– Risk management, doctors urged to adopt quality programs to improve office practices, 690
– Specialty hospitals no threat to general hospitals' care for low-income patients, study finds, 570
– Value-based purchasing

See HOSPITALS