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Long-Term Care in Transition: The Regulation of Nursing Homes. By David Barton Smith (Health Administration Press, University of Michigan, 1021 East Huron, Ann Arbor, MI 48109) (1981) 170 pp., $20 (paper). - The Body as Property. By Russell Scott (Viking Press, 625 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022) (1981) 274 pp., $14.95. - Clinical Ethics. By Albert R. Jonsen, Ph.D., Mark Siegler, M.D., and William J. Winslade, Ph.D., J.D. (Macmillan, New York) (1982) 187 pp., $15.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2021

Marshall B. Kapp*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine in Society Wright State University Dayton, Ohio

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Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1982

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References

See Caldwell, J.N. Kapp, M.B., The Rights of Nursing Home Patients: Possibilities and Limitations of Federal Regulation. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 6(1):40 (1981); Kapp, M.B., Protecting the Rights of Nursing Home Patients: Using Federal Law, Florida Bar Journal 55:212 (1981).Google ScholarPubMed
See Deregulation of Nursing Home Industry Proposed in Administration Report that Calls Health Rules “Wasteful,” Geriatric Nursing 3:72 (1982); Pear, R., Reagan Officials Seek to Ease Rules on Nursing Homes, New York Times, December 20, 1982, at 1.Google Scholar
See Kapp, M.B., Regulations Implementing the Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments, in Long Term Care and the Law (Skiba, J. ed.) (1979) at 149.Google Scholar
43 Fed. Reg. 39,154 (1978).Google Scholar
45 Fed. Reg. 49,440 (1980). See Kapp, M.B., Safeguarding Patients' Funds, Contemporary Administrator (May 1981) at 9. See also Kapp, M.B., Protecting the Personal Funds of the Mentally Retarded: New Federal Regulations, Hospital & Community Psychiatry 32:567 (1981).Google Scholar
The Medicare-Medicaid Anti-Fraud and Abuse Amendments of 1977, Pub. L. 95-142, §21(a) directed the Secretary of the then-Department of Health, Education and Welfare to promulgate final regulations to protect patients' funds by March 1977 (codified at 42 U.S.C. §1395x(j)(14)).Google Scholar
See id.; Pies, H.E., Control of Fraud and Abuse in Medicare and Medicaid, American Journal of Law & Medicine 3(3):323 (1977).Google ScholarPubMed