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Protecting American Health Care Consumers
Eleanor Dearman Kinney

Hardcover: 256 pages
ISBN 0822328763
978-0822328766
Duke University Press
April 2002
Price $44.95

 

Despite the attention to the problem of protecting the health care interests of Americans, there is little consensus on what should be done politically or otherwise to address this problem. In Protecting American Health Care Consumers Eleanor DeArman Kinney, a nationally regarded expert on health policy and law, tackles the serious and ongoing debate among state and federal policymakers, health-care providers, third-party payers, and consumers about how to provide procedural justice to patients in the present health- care climate.

To promote and ensure consumer protection in an increasingly adversarial and complicated health-care culture, Kinney first analyzes the procedures by which consumer concerns are presently discerned and resolved and then explains why these systems are unsatisfactory.

She also discusses problematic procedures for making coverage policy and quality standards and proposes reforms in a variety of processes that would enable all consumers, including the uninsured, to influence key policies and standards and also to raise concerns and obtain appropriate remedies.

As the first comprehensive treatment of administrative procedures in American health plans and other such institutions, Protecting American Health Care Consumers will be welcomed by state and federal policymakers, managed care executives, and lawyers charged with designing and implementing protections for consumers in public and private health plans.

"...well-written, timely book . . . . excellent . . . . Kinney’s credentials qualify her well to explain the importance of health care consumer rights." - R.G. McGee Jr., Choice

"An excellent and succinct review . . . . The book is appropriate for a wide audience." - Sara Rosenbaum, Journal of the American Medical Association

Eleanor DeArman Kinney is Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law at Indiana University and Co-director of the Center for Law and Health at the Indiana University School of Law. She is a former Assistant General Counsel for the American Hospital Association and program analyst for the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C.

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