Health Care Corporatization as a Catalyst for Wellness Legal Partnerships.

IF 0.6 4区 社会学 Q3 LAW
American Journal of Law & Medicine Pub Date : 2025-07-01 Epub Date: 2025-09-16 DOI:10.1017/amj.2025.10067
Barbara J Zabawa
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Abstract

The increasing presence of private equity investment in physician practices reveals that current health law practice sites such as in-house, corporate law firms, and Medical Legal Partnerships (MLPs) are ill equipped to address patient harm from health care corporatization. A new type of health law practice is needed to address the adverse impact health care corporatization is having on health care purchasers (primarily employers and patients) and physicians. I label this new health law practice the Wellness Legal Partnership (WLP), modeled after the Medical Legal Partnership (MLP). WLP lawyers can look to systems leadership theory, lawyer fiduciary duties, and health justice frameworks as guides to combat the adverse impacts of health care corporatization. WLPs would work best rooted in corporate health and wellness benefit settings, and they would improve patient wellbeing using a three-fold approach of individual advocacy, organizational change, and systemic change.

保健公司化作为健康法律伙伴关系的催化剂。
越来越多的私募股权投资出现在医生实践中,这表明目前的医疗法律实践场所,如内部律师事务所、公司律师事务所和医疗法律合伙企业(mlp),在解决医疗保健公司化对患者的伤害方面准备不足。需要一种新型的保健法律实践来解决保健公司化对保健购买者(主要是雇主和病人)和医生的不利影响。我将这种新的卫生法实践称为健康法律伙伴关系(WLP),以医疗法律伙伴关系(MLP)为蓝本。WLP律师可以将系统领导理论、律师受托责任和卫生司法框架作为指导,以对抗医疗保健公司化的不利影响。wlp将在企业健康福利设置中发挥最佳作用,它们将通过个人倡导、组织变革和系统变革三方面的方法来改善患者的福祉。
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期刊介绍: desde Enero 2004 Último Numero: Octubre 2008 AJLM will solicit blind comments from expert peer reviewers, including faculty members of our editorial board, as well as from other preeminent health law and public policy academics and professionals from across the country and around the world.
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