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Health Planning and the Law: An Update on the Statute

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

W. Thomas Berriman
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This column, the first in a series, addresses the legal background and program issues involved in comprehensive health planning, a concept that has become a permanent factor in the management of health care delivery. An examination of the 1974 Health Planning Act, its 1979 Amendments, and its evolution from voluntary planning to government control provides insights concerning the path of future regulation.

Planning for health care services originated in hospital and community initiatives that sought to guide the distribution of charitable and governmental funds to the neediest hospitals. Purely voluntary in nature, the success of these efforts depended almost entirely on the cooperation and acquiescence of the affected institutions, motivated primarily by their own desire to reduce competition among themselves in fund raising efforts. However, because the desirability of more services was usually assumed, little effort was made to measure the need for the services being proposed.

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Medicolegal News , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , June 1980 , pp. 10 - 12
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1980

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