Consumer-Driven Health Care: Ethical and Legal Pitfalls

Kristen Welch, M.D., Ben Alencherry, M.D., and Nadine El Asmar, M.D.

Originally authored by Sheryl Merkin, M.S., Sharon Movsas, M.S., and Joel Zonszein, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, from Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Updated by Kristen Welch, M.D., Ben Alencherry, M.D., and Nadine El Asmar, M.D., respectively Chief Resident, Chief Resident and Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University and Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.

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Consumer-Driven Health Care: Ethical and Legal Pitfalls

CME credit is no longer available for this conference.

Maxwell J. Mehlman, J.D.

Within the past 12 months, Prof. Mehlman reports no commercial conflicts of interest.

Release Date: 01/10/2006
Termination Date: 01/10/2009

Estimated time to complete: 1 hour(s).

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Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this Cyberounds^®, you should be able to:

Describe the difference between consumer-driven health care and other methods for controlling health care spending
Describe the ethical and legal problems that consumer-driven health care may create for caregivers
Describe the steps that caregivers might take to respond to these ethical and legal problems.

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