Legal Issues in Health Care

This article is about the problems hospitals are facing due to antitrust law issued by the government and how it affects the hospital setting in providing healthcare service. It talks about the major laws that have problems in connection to the three different relations that exist in any hospital - Hospital Relations, Hospital-Physician Relations and Hospital-Payer Relations. This has both good and bad effects and depends on what the change is. It has been speculated that over 50 percent of these legislations end up in the court. During 1985 to 1999, it was reported that 61 percent of 394 reported cases all ended up in the court due to some incidents that happened in the hospitals. These incidents are not good in themselves as it has lots of negative impacts on people (service taker) in general along with hospitals themselves, and most of the times, it is with the things that were not intentional. There are times when things go wrong unintentionally and still people tend to lawsuit the medical staff or physician stating that they have done it purposefully. This often seemed to happen in every hospital now and then due to all sort of things that’s happening at their personal as well as in their professional life. The main issue discussed in this article is the problems associated with Hospital Relation that the hospitals most often go through. Hospital relation is really a big concern as it affects the people the most in general. Raising price of different services the hospital provides is one of them that concerns people a lot. As to quote an example, the hospitals can increase the price of heart transplant or other surgeries based on their relation with other companies and organizations they deal with. The relation with these organization or companies may allow or compel hospitals