Health Care Law Resources

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
The Agency for Health Care Policy and Research provides research information and reports on health care topics including managed care, outcomes, health technology, and consumer health.

URL: http://www.ahrq.gov/

Bazelon Center for Mental Health
The Bazelon Center for Mental Health supports the advocacy of people with disabilities, specifically related to mental health. It provides legal and policy resources, addressing health care, education, housing, federal benefits, insurance and employment. It covers resources for children as well as the elderly.

URL: http://www.bazelon.org/

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Formerly the Health Care Financing Administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provides access to a tremendous amount of information on Medicare and Medicaid. Also find Directory of State and Federal Medicaid officials, HCFA financial reports, HCFA Newsletter, Medicare, Medicaid statistics and policies.

URL: http://www.cms.hhs.gov/default.asp?

Department of Health and Human Services
The Department of Health and Human Services contains consumer information on numerous topics, research and policy information, and links to HHS agencies.

URL: http://www.hhs.gov/

Find Law - Legal Subjects
FindLaw's section on Health Care provides thousands of legal sites, cases, codes, forms, articles, resources, law reviews, and much more.

URL: http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/scripts/lc.pl?entry=HEALTH+CARE+law&sites=findlaw.com

Health Finder
Health Finder is a resource for select online publications, clearing houses, databases, websites, and support and self-help groups within the medical field.

URL: http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Hieros Gamos - Health Law
Hieros Gamos section on Health Law is a large and comprehensive list of resources to federal and state agencies, organizations, cases, laws, regulation codes, publications, resources and much more.

URL: http://www.hg.org/health-law.html

International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet
The International Center for Disability Resources on the Internet website collects and presents " best practices " in areas related to disability and accessibility issues. It also addresses the legal issues around accessibility of Electronic and Information Technology as laws appear that mandate that web pages be accessible to people with disabilities.

URL: http://www.icdri.org/

LII - Legal Information Institute - Health Law
Cornell University's library center presents a summary of Health law, discussing its agencies and sharing laws, cases, news and links.

URL: http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Health

Medicaid Law

The University's library center summarizes the body of Medicaid law (via LII), discussing its agencies and sharing laws, cases, news and links.

URL: http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Medicaid

Medicare Law

University's library center summarizes the body of Medicare law (via LII), discussing its agencies and sharing laws, cases, news and links.

URL: http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Medicare

Mental Health Law

University's library center summarizes the body of Mental Health law (via LII), discussing its agencies and sharing laws, cases, news and links.

URL: http://topics.law.cornell.edu/wex/Mental_Health

Medicare
The Medicare website is a consumer-friendly online resource that includes Q&As on what Medicare is, managed care, who to contact, and publications with the key highlights being Wellness, Fraud and Abuse.

URL: http://www.medicare.gov/

Medline-Fee based
Medline is a fee-based service to over 16 million reference journals and medical documents published from 1996 through the present. updated monthly.

URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/medline.html

National Institute of Health
The National Institute of Health contains information on health resources such as CancerNet, Aids information and the vNIH information index.

URL: http://www.nih.gov/

Occupational Safety and Health Care
OSHA sets the standards for the health and safety of the American Employee.

URL: http://www.osha.gov/