Cost Containment May Have a Price, But Is It a Crime? Analyzing the Basis for Criminalizing Managed Care Conduct

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  • Courtney Lyons Snyder

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https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2008.128

Abstract

A recent transplant case raises an interesting question: Should a managed care organization (“MCO”) face criminal prosecution when a patient dies after the MCO’s decision to deny payment for treatment? Is providing such a legal cause of action the solution, or does doing so just put money into the pockets of attorneys rather than into the hands of the injured health care consumer? As a recent case suggests, bad publicity could be as effective a deterrent as any criminal prosecution in changing an MCO’s behavior.

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Published

2008-04-26

How to Cite

Snyder, Courtney Lyons. 2008. “Cost Containment May Have a Price, But Is It a Crime? Analyzing the Basis for Criminalizing Managed Care Conduct”. University of Pittsburgh Law Review 70 (2). https://doi.org/10.5195/lawreview.2008.128.

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