Health care law focuses on the legislative, executive, and judicial rules and regulations that govern the health care industry. The health care industry includes hospitals and hospital systems, other health care providers (such as nursing homes, psychiatric centers, acute care centers and health maintenance organizations), public and private insurers, pharmaceutical and device manufacturers, and the individual practitioners who treat patients. Some of the regulations relevant to this industry include Stark, HIPAA, Anti-Kickback Statute, EMTALA and state privacy laws.

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Health law is a field of law that envelops government, state, and nearby law, rules, guidelines, and other laws among suppliers, payers, and sellers to the medical care industry and its patients, and conveyance of medical care administrations, with an accentuation on activities, administrative and conditional issues.