Now in its tenth edition, The Law of Healthcare Administration explores the serious legal challenges that healthcare leaders must be equipped to deal with. This classic text helps readers think through the issues, applying current legal principles and relevant judicial decisions. Drawing on their practice and teaching backgrounds, authors Stuart Showalter and Sallie Thieme Sanford aim to provide an accurate, accessible, and engaging textbook that helps students understand the law’ s evolving, multifaceted role in the administration of healthcare entities. Like its predecessors, this edition provides a comprehensive overview of healthcare law, and its 15 chapters include substantial revisions and new material, including discussions of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’ s Health (the US Supreme Court’ s June 2022 decision that overturned the constitutional right to abortion), Biden-era Affordable Care Act (ACA) litigation and regulation, evolving antidiscrimination standards, the federal No Surprises Act, new fraud and abuse regulations, crisis standards of care, Good Samaritan overdose statutes, apology laws, and much more.

Sallie Thieme Sanford, JD, is an associate professor at the University of Washington School of Law, with an adjunct appointment in the School of Public Health, Department of Health Systems and Population Health. She received her JD, Order of the Coif, from the University of California, Los Angeles. Sanford clerked for the Honorable Robert R. Beezer of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before entering academia, she served as an assistant attorney general representing the University of Washington (UW) Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, and the UW’ s health sciences schools. J. Stuart Showalter, JD, MFS, developed a deep expertise in health law during a 50-year career. He has a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and a master’ s degree in forensic science from George Washington University in Washington, DC. He served in the US Navy from 1972 to 1980 in various positions, including in-house counsel to a large US Navy medical center, and counsel to the US Navy Surgeon General. Showalter taught health law and public policy in the master of health administration program at Washington University School of Medicine.

Chapter 1 - A Brief History of Law and Medicine Chapter 2 - Access to Healthcare Insurance and Treatment Chapter 3 - The Organization and Management of a Corporate Healthcare Institution Chapter 4 - Human Resources Law Chapter 5 - Contracts and Intentional Torts Chapter 6 - Negligence Chapter 7 - Liability of the Healthcare Institution Chapter 8 - Medical Staff Privileges and Peer Review Chapter 9 - Fraud and Abuse Laws and Corporate Compliance Chapter 10 - Health Information Management Chapter 11 - Emergency Care Chapter 12 - Consent for Treatment Chapter 13 - Tax-Exempt Healthcare Organizations Chapter 14 - Competition and Antitrust Law Chapter 15 - Issues of Reproduction and Birth