Letter: PSRO legislation.

Professional Standards Review Organization and pedodontics: a status report.

The Professional Standards Review Organization is a Federal quality assurance program for Medicaid, Medicare, and Crippled Children’s Programs health services which was legislated in the early 1970s in response to administrative, economic, social, and professional concerns. The program is now fully implemented and provides local review of hospital admissions, including pedodontic admissions, th...

Regulations, legislation, and classification.

Health insurance reform legislation.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), enacted on August 21, 1996 (Public Law 104-19), provides for improved access and renewability with respect to employment-related group health plans, to health insurance coverage sold in connection with group plans, and to the individual market (by amending the Public Health Service Act). The Act's provisions include improv...

Legislation as Logic Programs

The linguistic style in which legislation is normally written has many similarities with the language of logic programming. However, examples of legal language taken from the British Nationality Act 1981, the University of Michigan lease termination clause, and the London Underground emergency notice suggest several ways in which the basic model of logic programming could usefully be extended. ...

Legislation and genetic discrimination.