LEGAL MEDICINE
RESOURCES
Americans
with Disabilities Act Documents:
Aviation Medical Assistance Act (1998)
Cardiac Arrest Survival Act of 2000:
Compliance Program Guidance for Individual and Small Group
Physician Practices.( 65 FR 59434;October 5, 2000)
Constitution of the United States
Credentialing Information
Department of Transportation Fact Sheet on Civil Rights of
Persons with Disabilities:
Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA)
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA):
Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
Healthcare Marketplace:
Institute of Medicine - "TO ERR IS HUMAN: BUILDING A SAFER
HEALTH SYSTEM" (11/1999)
Medical Staff Leadership Resource:
National Practitioner Data Bank:
National Standards for Electronic Transactions (August 7,
2000):
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1998:
(Bipartisan) Patient Protection Act of 2001:
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005:
Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990. Search
for the following related documents by bill number:
S 1766IS [Senate
bill; PSDA 1989]
HR 5828 [House
bill, PSDA 1990] [Note:Subtitle A, Section 3001 and Sect 1868]
HR 4449IH
[House bill, PSDA, amendments
Pediatric Patient Safety
Uniform Data Standards for Patient Medical Record Information
(July 6, 2000):
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability
Act (HIPAA)
Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health
Information:
General Congressional law links:
MEDICARE
Medicare Professional and Technical Information - includes
information on the new Evaluation and Management Regulations:
Medicare Learning Network:
Prescription Drug Plan:
Program Manuals, Transmittals, and Program Menus:
SUPREME COURT CASES
ERISA and HMOs
HIV and Disability
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Right to Die - "The Nancy Cruzan Case"
Supreme Court Case 88-1503
497 U.S. 261
TO CONTACT YOUR FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES
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LEGAL RESOURCE LINKS
MISSOURI LEGAL RESOURCE LINKS
Missouri Intractable Pain Treatment Act - 1995.
Title XXII, Chapter 334. Sections 334.105-7:
MISSOURI STATUTES
Health insurance coverage for diabetic supplies and education:
Controlled substances (July 30, 2003):
Good Samaritan Law (Section 537.037; 2003):
Mandatory cancer reporting:
Life Support Decisions for Patients in Terminal Conditions:
Right of Sepulcher Law (Section 194.119; 2003):
Senate Bills 0617 and 0646 (1999) on the Uniform Anatomical
Gift Act (both effective August 28, 2000):
Surrogate Health Care Decisions:
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