Introduction
This self-help and resource guide is intended to assist people with cancer and cancer survivors to better understand and deal with Texas and national legal issues related to cancer. The guide addresses obtaining and retaining insurance coverage, making insurance claims, health care decision-making, and employment issues, together with a list of references and additional resources.
The information is current through August 1998. However, please note that health law and government policy change rapidly in this area. Also, the guide is not intended to offer individual legal advice, since appliction of the law to particular facts is beyond the scope of any publication.
The Health Law and Policy Institute at the University of Houston prepared this guide under the direction of the Texas Cancer Council's Managed Care Steering Committee, with funding provided by the council. The committee was created in FY 1997 to identify program and policy initiatives that should be supported by the council to enhance the availability of cancer prevention and control services in a managed care environment.