Courts often uphold hospital credentialing decisions based in part on economic criteria. Nonetheless, as this article discusses, arrangements where medical staff privileges or other benefits appear to be offered to physicians as an incentive to refer patients may be suspect under the Medicare/Medicaid fraud and abuse law.

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Legal issues in determining competence to make treatment decisions.

With the complexities of current medical care and the growing concern for patient autonomy in making decisions about whether or not to accept medical and surgical treatment, psychiatrists are increasingly called on to evaluate patients' competence to make treatment decisions.

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