What this service is:

Health Law & Business Library's experienced practitioners offer an inside look, in an industry-wide context, at the critical issues arising where health law and business interests intersect.

What it helps you do:

• Enrich your practice with explanations and discussions of complex issues by leading experts -- and gain an insider's perspective.
• Find detailed answers to a myriad of questions in a single convenient resource. It's like having a professional consultant on staff, armed with analysis, citations, and practical materials.
• Have hard-to-get information at your fingertips. Each Portfolio contains a detailed analysis, working papers, checklists, model documents, bibliography, tables, and full text of key statutes, regulations, and rulings, and other useful documents.
• Find what you need quickly with thorough tables of contents, individual and series-wide indexes, and internal cross-references
• Know you're using reliable, up-to-date materials -- unlike treatises that might be supplemented only once a year, or seminar handouts that aren't updated at all
• Get up to speed, if you're new to the field. Save time and gain fresh insights if you're a veteran.
• Draft legal documents, structure deals, design and implement plans, and offer sound advice to clients more easily and securely in a volatile industry.
• Review state laws on health plans at a glance with the State Law Summaries database on the Web and CD Library, searchable by bill number, state code section, state, year, or topic.
• Review an archive of back issues of Bloomberg BNA's Health Law Reporter on the Web or CD Library.
• Trust the information service that won the American Association of Law Libraries' Best New Product Award (1997).

Product Structure

Portfolios: in-depth analyisis of specific transactional issues

Formats and Frequency

Print portfolios are updated monthly and indexed periodically.

The Web portfolios library is updated regulary, includes Web notification coverage.

CD-ROM material is updated monthly.

• Antitrust
• Contracting issues
• Clinical Research
• Corporate practice of medicine prohibition
• Credentialing strategies
• Enforcement and compliance
• Faculty practice plans
• Federal anti-kickback law
• Federal self-referral law
• Fraud and abuse
• Health care worker classification
• Integration and exclusion
• Joint ventures
• Medical practice consolidation
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Managed care organizations
• Operational issues
• Provider risk sharing
• Structural and legal issues
• Tax-exempt financing for health care organizations
• Tax-exempt status of health care organizations
• Transactional issues
• Unrelated business income tax issues in health care