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Health Care Law: Primary Materials

• Statutes
• Regulations
• Case Law

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For general primary law research assistance, please refer to our Federal Law Research guide or our Massachusetts Legal Research guide. The sources listed below are databases on LexisNexis and Westlaw that specialize on Health Care Law.

Statutes

Federal Legislation

• LexisNexis: Health-related Titles from the U.S. Code Service
• Westlaw: Federal Health Law - U.S. Code Annotated

Multistate Legislation

• LexisNexis: Health-related Titles from All State Codes

*** Online Research Tip ***
Search an individual state's health care statutes on LexisNexis by entering the Health library, xxcode file (health;xxcode), where xx is the state's postal abbreviation

Regulations

Federal Regulations: Code of Federal Regulations

• LexisNexis: Health Sections from Code of Federal Regulations
• Westlaw: Federal Health Law - Code of Federal Regulations

Federal Regulations: Federal Register

• LexisNexis: Selected Health-related Federal Register Documents
• Westlaw: Health Law Entries in the Federal Register

Multistate Regulations

• LexisNexis: State Healthcare Regulations Combined

Case Law

Case finding by Topic

West's Digests: Judicial opinions on health care law can be found in any digest using the West Topics (among others); each Topic is broken down into number sections (or "key numbers"), and case references are organized under each key number.

• Health and Environment
• Hospitals
• Death
• Drugs and Narcotics
• Negligence
  
• Insurance

On Westlaw, you may search cases using theTopic and Key number system. On Lexis, you can use the Search by Topic or Headnote feature for guidance on searching by topic.

American Law Reports (ALR) publish annotations on health care law topics, surveying case law from each of the 50 states. In the ALR Federal series, case law from federal circuits and districts is surveyed.

• PRINT: Pappas Lower, west wall
• ONLINE: Westlaw

Federal Judicial Opinions: Full Text Online

• LexisNexis: Federal & State Cases - Selected Healthcare Related Material
• Westlaw: Federal Health Law Cases

State Judicial Opinions: Full Text Online

• Westlaw: Multistate Health Law Cases

*** Online Research Tip ***
To search an individual state's health law cases on Westlaw by entering the database xxhth-cs, where xx is the state's postal abbreviation

• LexisNexis: State Health Care Cases from All State Courts and all ALR annotations

*** Online Research Tip ***

To search an individual state's health care cases on LexisNexis, by entering the Health library, xxcts file (health;xxcts), where xx is the state's postal abbreviation.

Page maintained by David Bachman
Last updated: February 2009