MHS-2320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: American Medical Association, Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Medicine, Health, and Society
• Course: MHS-2320
• Professor: Juleigh Petty

Document Summary

Power of government in regulation of business of medicine. Relative regulation of government varies upon where you look - hard to make overarching claim. American medical association vs department of health and human services. Busy fighting off the government, and ended up controlled by insurance companies. 3 players - government may limit power of medical profession and limit power of insurance companies. Medicine is a profession and a business. The size of the government"s role in the regulation of the business of medicine varies depending on where you look. Physicians fought off government regulation of the finance and content of healthcare and now face patwork of regulation by the government and regulation by private insurers. Government has more power towards the top of this list than at the bottom. About half for health care in this country. Medicare, medicaid, va, tax laws that encourage employers to give it. Done at the state level, changed with affordable care act.