About This Collection
A wide range of legal questions are considered as Aligning Forces for Quality Alliances pursue innovative ways to improve the quality of care provided in their communities. From state fair process laws to federal antitrust regulations, AF4Q Alliances must work within the parameters of the law as well as understand how it can enhance their work. This section provides up-to-date analyses on current health care legal issues that potentially affect the work of AF4Q Alliances
Key Resources:
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Fair Process in Physician Performance Rating Systems:
Overview and Analysis of Colorado’s Physician Designation Disclosure Act - The Antitrust Aspects of Health Information Sharing by Public and Private Health Insurers
- LegalNotes - The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- LegalNotes - Promoting Greater Access to Health Information
What You Need to Know:
The Legal Barriers Project provides ongoing support to AF4Q communities by analyzing specific legal issues relevant to the communities, conducting cross-site technical assistance, and providing insight into the major legal themes surrounding quality/equality reform. Legal Barriers generates issue briefs on topics that include quality data collection by race, ethnicity, and language, health information technology, patient privacy, mechanisms for realigning provider payments to incentivize quality, public reporting of performance measures, and the limits of state and regional policymaking. By focusing on these broad policy issues in addition to the tailored needs of the individual Aligning Forces communities, Legal Barriers will help translate the lessons learned from Aligning Forces into generalizable knowledge for a national audience.