Timothy S. Jost

Publications

SSRN Publications

W&L Scholarly Commons (Available PDFs)

Books, including monographs and treatises

Health Care Reform Special Alert (LexisNexis 2010).

Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement (Duke University Press 2007).

International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Medical Law, United States of America (Kluwer 1995, Supp. 42 2005). (with Timothy S. Jost, Barry Furrow, Thomas Greaney, Sandra Johnson and Robert Schwartz)

Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Ed. Health Care Coverage Determinations An Internnational Comparative Study (Open University Press 2005).

Health Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems (West 5th ed. 2004). (with Timothy S. Jost, Barry Furrow, Sandra Johnson, and Robert Schwartz)

Disentitlement? : The Threats Facing Our Public Health-Care Programs and a Rights-Based Response (Oxford University Press 2003).

Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics (Carolina Academic Press 2001).

Regulation of the Health Care Professions (Editor), Health Administration Press, 1997.

The Law of Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse (West 1st ed. 1997; 2d ed. 2000; 2002-03 ed. 2002). (with Timothy S. Jost and Sharon Davies)

International Encyclopedia of Medical Law: The United States (Kluwer 1995, 2d ed. 1998). (with Timothy S. Jost, Barry Furrow, Thomas Greaney, Sandra Johnson, and Robert Schwartz)

Health Law Treatise (West 2d ed. 2000; 1st ed. 1995) (with Timothy S. Jost, Barry Furrow, Thomas Greaney, Sandra Johnson and Robert Schwartz)

Health Law Hornbook (West 2d ed. 2000; 1st ed. 1995). (with Timothy S. Jost, Barry Furrow, Thomas Greaney, Sandra Johnson and Robert Schwartz)

Property: Cases, Problems and Materials (West 1992). (with Timothy S. Jost, Sandra Johnson, Peter Salsich, and Thomas Shaffer)

Assurance of the Quality of Medical Care: An International Comparative Study, King's Fund, London, 1990.

Health Law: Cases, Materials, and Problems (West 4th ed. 2001, 2003 supplement; 3rd ed. 1997; 2d ed. 1991; 1st ed. 1987). (with Timothy S. Jost, Barry Furrow, Thomas Greaney, Sandra Johnson, and Robert Schwartz) (This book is also published in three paperbacks, each of which contains part of the total book, entitled, The Law of Health Care Organization and Finance, Bioethics: Health Care Law and Ethics, and Liability and Quality Issues in Health Care. These are each now in the 4th edition.)

Model Recommendations: Intermediate Sanctions for Enforcement of Quality of Care in Nursing Homes, for American Bar Association, Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, 1981.

Medicare and Medicaid, in Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Counseling Senior Citizens and the Handicapped (1977 and 1979). (with Timothy Jost and James Weill)

Book Chapters

Health Care Access in the United States, Conflicting Concepts of Justice and Little Solidarity, in International Health Law Solidarity and Justice in Health Care (A.P. den Exter, ed. 2009).

Legal Aspects of End of Life Treatment in Australia, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, France, Germany, Japan, and The Netherlands, in Proceedings of the 10th World Congress on Pain 803 (Progress in Pain Research and Management, Volume 24, Jonathan O. Dostrovsky, Daniel B. Carr & Martin Koltzenburg eds., IASP Press 2003). (with Timothy Jost, Danuta Mendelson and Michael Ashby)

USA - Country Report United States of America, in Das Menschenrechtsubereinkommen zur Biomedizin des Europarates - taugliches Vorbild fur eine weltweit geltende Regelung? = The Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine of the Council of Europe - a Suitable Model for World-wide Regulation? 777 (Jochen Taupitz ed., Springer, 2002).

E-Health and the Law, in Uluslararasi Internet Hukuku Sempozyumu 191 (Dokuz Eylul Universitesi Yayini, 2002).

Legal and Regulatory Considerations in Physician Performance Enhancement Programs in Enhancing Physician Performance (American College of Physician Executives, 2000).

Country Report USA, in Forschungsfreiheit und Forschungskontrolle in der Medizin: Zur geplanten Revision der Deklaration von Helsinki = Freedom and Control of Biomedical Research: The Planned Revision of the Declaration of Helsinki 231 (Erwin Deutsch & Jochen Tauptiz eds., Springer, 2000).

Are Placebo-Controlled Studies Permissible?, in Forschungsfreiheit und Forschungskontrolle in der Medizin: Zur geplanten Revision der Deklaration von Helsinki = Freedom and Control of Biomedical Research: The Planned Revision of the Declaration of Helsinki 315 (Erwin Deutsch & Jochen Tauptiz eds., Springer, 2000).

Equal Access to Health Care, in Law in Motion 931-958 (Kluwer, 1996).

Interprofessional Collaboration: Factors that Affect Form, Function and Structure, in Interprofessional Care and Collaborative Practice 61-79 (1994). (with Timothy Jost and Richard M. Daley)

Recent Developments in Medical Quality Assurance and Audit, in Quality and Regulation in Health Care 69-88 (Routledge, 1992).

Legal Characteristics of the Extended Care Facility, in Health Care Facility Law 993-1050 (Little, Brown and Co., 1991).

Intermediate Sanctions as Alternatives to Decertification and Delicensure, in Long Term Care and the Law (S. Johnson ed., 1983).

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

Optimizing Qui Tam Litigation and Minimizing Fraud and Abuse: A Comment on Christopher Alexion's Open the Door, Not the Floogate, 69 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 419 (2012).

Loopholes in the Affordable Care Act: Regulatory Gaps and Border Crossing Techniques and How to Address them, 5 St. Louis u. J. Health L. & Pol'y 27 (2011).

The Real Constitutional Problem with the Affordable Care Act, 36 J. Health Pol. Pol'y & L. 501 (2011).

The Independent Medicare Advisory Board, 11 Yale J. Health Pol'y L & Ethics 21 (2011). 

Oversight of Marketing Relationships Between Physicians and the Drug and Device Industry: A Comparative Study, 36 Am. J.L. & Med. 326 (2010).

Health Insurance Exchanges: Legal Issues, 37 J.L. Med. & ethics 53 (2009)(special supp. Vol. 37). 

The Regulation of Private Health Insurance available at National Academy of Public Insurance

Value-Based Purchasing in Traditional Medicare: Legal Issues available at New America Foundation

Is Health Insurance a Bad Idea? The Consumer-Driven Perspective, 14 Conn. Ins. L.J. 377 (2007-2008).

Health Care Access in the United States. Conflicting Concepts of Justice and Little Solidarity, 27 Med & L. 605 (2008). (Available at: Westlaw)

Global Health Care Financing Law: A Useful Concept?, 96 Geo. L.J. 413 (2008). (Available at: Lexis and Westlaw)

Shifting Risk of Ruin to Consumers: The Role of Tax Law in American Health Policy, 51 St. Louis U. L.J. 353 (2007).

The American Right-Wing Policy Agenda, 2 Health Econ. Pol'y & Law 233 (2007) (Available at: Health)

The Massachusetts Health Plan: Public Insurance for the Poor, Private Insurance for the Wealthy, Self-Insurance for the Rest?, 55 Kan. L. Rev. 1091 (2007) (Symposium, The Massachusetts Plan and the Future of Universal Coverage Perspectives on Health Reform). (Available at: Lexis and Westlaw)

The Role of State Regulation in Consumer-Driven Health Care, 31 Am. J. L. and Med. 395 (2006). (with Timothy S. Jost and Mark Hall) (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

The New Governance, the Open Method of Coordination and Social Health Insurance in Europe, 7 Med. L. Int. 249 (2006).

Our Broken Health Care System and How to Fix It: An Essay on Health Law and Policy, 41 Wake Forest L. Rev. 537 (2006). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Timothy Jost, Diane Dawson & Andre den Exter, The Role of Competition in Health Care: A Western European Perspective, 31 J. Health Pol. Pol'y & L. 687 (2006). (with Timothy Jost, Diane Dawson and Andre den Exter) (Available at: Westlaw)

Health Courts and Malpractice Claims Adjudication through Medicare: Some Questions, 9 J. Health Care L. & Pol'y 290 (2006). (Available at: Hein-Online and  Westlaw)

The Most Important Health Care Legislation of the Millenium (So Far): The Medicare Modernization Act, 5 Yale J. Pol'y Health L. & Ethics 437 (2005). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Breaking the Deal: Proposed Limits on Federal Consent Decrees Would Let States Abandon Commitments, Legal Times, April 25, 2005 at 58. (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Consumer-Driven Health Care in South Africa: Lessons from Comparative Health Policy Studies, 1 J. Health & Biomedical L. 83 (2005). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Why Can't We Do What They Do? National Health Reform Abroad, 32 J.L. Med. & Ethics 433 (2004) (Symposium: National Health Reform and Americas Uninsured). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

The Uses of the Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Case of Law, 29 J.Health Pol. Pol'y & L. 799 (2004) (Special Issue: Transforming American Medicine: A Twenty-Year Retrospective on the Social Transformation of American Medicine). (Available at: Project Muse; Westlaw)

Professional Sovereignty in a Changing Health Care System: Reflections on Paul Starr's The Social Transformation of American Medicine, 29 J. Health Pol. Pol'y & L. 557 (2004) (Special Issue: Transforming American Medicine: A Twenty-Year Retrospective on the Social Transformation of American Medicine). (with Timothy S. Jost, Keith Wailoo and Mark Schlesinger) (Available at: Project Muse;Westlaw)

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America v. Walsh: The Supreme Court Allows the States to Proceed With Expanding Access to Drugs, 4 Yale J. Health Pol'y L. & Ethics 69 (2004). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Comparative and International Health Law, 14 Health Matrix 141 (2004) (The Law-Medicine Center 50th Anniversary Symposium: The Field of Health Law: Its Past and Future). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Health Law and Administrative Law: A Marriage Most Convenient, 49 St. Louis L.J. 1 (2004) (Symposium). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

The Tenuous Nature of the Medicaid Entitlement, 22 Health Aff. 145 (2003). (Available at: Lexis)

Legal Issues in Quality of Care Oversight in the United States: Recent Developments, 10 Eur. J. Health L. 11 (2003).

The Future of Medicare, Post Great Society and Post Plus-Choice: Legal and Policy Issues, 60 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1087 (2003) (2002 Washington & Lee University Law Review Symposium Foreword). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

A Comparative Study of the Law of Palliative Care and End-of-Life Treatment, 31 J.L. Med. & Ethics 130 (2003). (with Timothy S. Jost and Danuta Mendelson) (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Commentary: Racial Disparities in Health Care, 9 Wash. & Lee Race & Ethnic Anc. L.J. 35 (2003). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

The Role of the Courts in Health Care Rationing: The German Model, 18 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol'y 613 (2002). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Rights of Embryo and Foetus in Private Law, 50 Am. J. Comp. L. 633 (2002). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Private or Public Approaches to Insuring the Uninsured: Lessons From International Experience With Private Insurance, 76 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 419-492 (2001). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Case Study: Pegram v. Herdrich: The Supreme Court Confronts Managed Care, 1 Yale J. Health Pol'y L. & Ethics 187-193 (2001) (Symposium: Current Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw; Yale J. Health Pol'y L.)

Medicare and Medicaid Financing of Pain Management, 1 J. Pain 183-194 (2000).

The Globalization of Health Law: The Case of Permissibility of Placebo-Based Research, 26 Am. J.L. & Med. 175-186 (2000). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Managed Care Regulation: Can we Learn from Others? The Chilean Experience, 32 Mich. J.L. Reform 863-898 (1999) (Symposium: Managed Care - What's the Prognosis: Managing Care in the Next Century). (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Governing Medicare, 51 Admin. L. Rev. 39-116 (1999) (Health Care Symposium). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Empire Strikes Back: A Critique of the Backlash Against Fraud and Abuse Enforcement, 51 Ala. L. Rev. 239-318 (1999) (Symposium: Health Care Fraud: Past, Present and Future). (with Timothy S. Jost and Sharon L. Davies) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The American Difference in Health Care Costs: Is there a Problem? Is Medical Necessity the Solution?, 43 St. Louis U. L.J. 1-26 (1999). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Public Financing of Pain Management: Leaky Umbrellas and Ragged Safety Nets: , 26 J.L. Med. & Ethics 290-307 (1998). (Available at: Lexis; ProQuest; Westlaw)

Health Care Rationing in the Courts: A Comparative Study, 21 Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev. 639-714 (1998). (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

Gesundheitsreform: Lehren aus amerikanischen Erfahrungen, 4 Recht und Politik im Gesundheitswesen 45-53 (1998).

German Health Care Reform, the Next Steps, 23 J. Health Pol. Pol'y & L. 697-711 (1998). (Available at: ProQuest; Westlaw)

Managed Care: Placebo or Wonder Drug for Health Care Fraud and Abuse?, 31 Ga. L. Rev. 373-417 (1997) (Symposium: Managed Health Care). (with Timothy Jost and Sharon Davies) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Internationalizing the National Practitioner Data Bank, 9 Int'l J. for Quality in Health Care 333 (1997).

American Health Law and Policy in the Wake of the Clinton Plan, 11 Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Arbeits und Sozialrecht 123-135 (1997).

Schlichtungsstellen and Gutachterkommissionen: The German Approach to Extrajudicial Malpractice Claims Resolution, 11 J. Disp. Resol. 81-103 (1996). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Fraud and Abuse Statute: Rationalizing or Rationalization, 15 Health Aff. 129-131 (1996). (with Timothy Jost and Sharon Davies)

The British Health Care Reforms, The American Health Care Revolution, and Purchaser/Provider Contracts, 20 J. Health Pol. Pol'y & L. 885-908 (1996). (with Timothy Jost, David Hughes, Jean McHale, and Lesley Griffiths) (Presented at London School of Economics Research Seminar, September 1995) (Available at: Westlaw)

Oversight of the Quality of Medical Care: Regulation, Management or the Market?, 37 Ariz. L. Rev. 825-868 (1995). (Portions appear in Roberta M. Berry & Kevin McDonnell, A Health Law Reader (1998)) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Health Care Contracts in Britain and the United States: A Case for Technology Transfer?, 3 J. Nursing Mgmt. 287-293 (1995).

Administrative Adjudication Issues in Health Reform, 47 Admin. L. Rev. 425-447 (1995). (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

Waiting for Reform, J.L. Med. & Ethics, Spring 1994, at 63-71.

Medicare and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations: A Healthy Relationship?, 57 L. & Contemp. Probs. 15-46 (1994). (Available at: Westlaw)

Medicare and Medicaid False Claims: Prohibitions and Sanctions, 3 Annals Health L. 41-54 (1994). (Available at: Westlaw)

Health System Reform: Forward or Backward with Quality Oversight?, 271 JAMA 1508-1511 (1994). (Available at: ProQuest)

Confidentiality and Disclosure in Accreditation, 57 L. & Contemp. Probs. 171-184 (1994). (Available at: Westlaw)

Selling Cost Containment, 19 Am. J.L. & Med. 95-119 (1993) (Symposium: Implementing U.S. Health Care Reform). (with Timothy Jost and Sandra Tanenbaum) (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Medical Education, Licensure and Discipline in Four European Countries, Fed'n St. Med. Boards Bull., Spring 1993, at 9-26.

Consumers, Complaints, and Medical Discipline, 3 Health Matrix 309-338 (1993). (with Timothy Jost, Linda Mulcahy, Stephen Strasser, and Larry Sachs) (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

Policing Cost Containment, 3 Puget Sound L. Rev. 483-526 (1991) (Hospital Cost Containment: A Health Law Symposium). (Available at: Westlaw)

Regulation of the Quality of Nursing Home Care in the United States, 1 Quality Assurance in Health Care 223-228 (1990).

Medicare Peer Review Organizations, 1 Quality Assurance in Health Care 235-248 (1990).

Regulatory Approaches to Problems in the Quality of Medical Care: Diagnosis and Prescription, 22 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 593-608 (1989).

Quality Assurance and Medical Audit: Legal Concerns, 6 Eur. Newsl. on Quality Assurance 3 (1989).

Administrative Law Issues Involving the Medicare Utilization and Quality Control Peer Review Organization (PRO) Program: Analysis and Recommendations, 50 Ohio St. Univ. L. Rev. 1-71 (1989). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

The Necessary and Proper Role of Health Care Quality Regulation, 25 Hous. L. Rev. 525-598 (1988). (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

The Attorney General's Policy on Modification of Consent Decrees and Settlement Agreements, 39 Admin. L. Rev. 101-116 (1987). (Available at: Hein-Online; Westlaw)

From Swift to Stotts and Beyond: Modification of Injunctions in the Federal Courts, 64 Tex. L. Rev. 1101-1162 (1986). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Enforcement of Quality Nursing Home Care in the Legal System, 13 L. Med. & Health Care 160-172 (1985).

The Defeasible Fee and the Birth of the Modern Residential Subdivision, 49 Mo. L. Rev. 695-739 (1984). (Reprinted in part in A Property Anthology (Richard Chused ed., 1993, 2d ed. 1997)) (Available at: Hein-Online)

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals: Private Regulation of Health Care and the Public Interest, 24 B.C. L. Rev. 835-923 (1983). (Available at: Hein-Online)

The Problem of Consent for Placement, Care and Treatment of the Incompetent Nursing Home Resident, 26 St. Louis Univ. L.J. 63-103 (1981). (Available at: Hein-Online)

The Nursing Home Reform Act of 1979, 68 Ill. B.J. 448-454 (1980). (with Timothy Jost and Richard M. Daley)

The Illinois Guardianship for Disabled Adults Legislation of 1978 and 1979: Protecting the Disabled from their Zealous Protectors, 56 Chi.-Kent L. Rev. 1087-1105 (1980).

Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies in Illinois: The State of the Law at the Close of an Active Decade, 11 Loy. Chi. L.J. 1-20 (1979). (Available at: Hein-Online)

Book Reviews

Book Review, 35 J. Health, Pol. Pol'y & L 143 (2010) (reviewing Carl F. Ameringer, The Health Care Revolution: From Medical Monopoly to Market Competition (2008)).

Book Review, 24 J. Legal Med. 127 (2003) (reviewing Ian Freckelton and Danuta Mendelson eds., Causation in Law and Medicine (2002)) (Available at: Lexis; Westlaw)

Book Review, 28 Am. J.L. & Med. 503 (2002) (reviewing Eleanor DeArman Kinney, Protecting American Health Care Consumers (2002)). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Book Review, 49 Am. J. Comp. L. 359 (2001) (reviewing Hans-Jurgen Ahrens et al. eds., Festschrift fur Erwin Deutsch (1999)). (Available at: Hein-Online; Lexis; Westlaw)

Book Review, 23 J. Health Pol. Pol'y & L. 861-864 (1998) (reviewing Mark A. Hall, Making Medical Spending Decisions: The Law, Ethics, and Economics of Rationing Mechanisms (1997)). (Available at: ProQuest; Westlaw)

Book Review, 19 J. Health Pol. Pol'y & L. 265 (1994) (reviewing Marc Rodwin, Medicine, Money, & Morals: Physicians' Conflicts of Interest (1993)). (Available at: Westlaw)

Newspapers, Website, Magazines, and other general media

Krankes Gesundheitssystem, on Bundeszentrale fur Poliische Bildung, October 8, 2008 available at bpb

The Justice Department's Settlement Policy. Is "No Deal" a "Bad Deal"?, Litig. (1987).