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The physician assistant's business practice and legal guide

Title
  1. The physician assistant's business practice and legal guide / Michele Roth-Kauffman.
Published by
  1. Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, [2006], ©2006.
Author
  1. Roth-Kauffman, Michele.

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Description
  1. xiv, 549 pages; 27 cm
Summary
  1. "The only business practice and legal guide available for the physician assistant, this essential resource offers strategies for developing your career and outlines important legal issues relevant to the physician assistant's practice. The Physician Assistant's Business Practice and Legal Guide offers an overview of the history and development of the profession, scope of practice, contract negotiations, medical malpractice insurance and avoiding a malpractice claim, defensible documentation, reimbursement, confidentiality and ethics, billing and risk management, surviving in a competitive market, and much more. This is a must-have reference for students and practicing physician assistants, as well as supervisory physicians."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  1. Professional Practice > legislation & jurisprudence
  2. Physicians' assistants > United States
  3. Physicians' assistants > Licenses > United States
  4. United States
  5. Physician Assistants
  6. Licensure
  7. Physicians' assistants > Legal status, laws, etc > United States
Contents
  1. Ch. 1. The physician assistant profession -- Ch. 2. Scope of practice -- Ch. 3. Maintaining certification and licensure -- Ch. 4. Prescriptive authority -- Ch. 5. Employment issues -- Ch. 6. Negligence and medical malpractice -- Ch. 7. Risk management -- Ch. 8. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 -- Ch. 9. Evaluation and management coding -- Ch. 10. Reimbursement for PA services -- Ch. 11. Political and legislative action -- Ch. 12. Ethics : principles and guidelines in practice.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.