David M. Frankford is a specialist in bioethics and health care law. He teaches courses and seminars on Antitrust, Bioethics, Health Care Law, Health Care Transactions, and Health Care Fraud and Abuse.
He is a professor at the Rutgers Institute for Health,
Health Care Policy, and Aging Research in New Brunswick; and the faculty
director at Camden of the Rutgers Center for State Health Policy. He has
been a long-time editor of Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, having served as book review editor, associate editor, and the editor of "Behind the Jargon," a special section.
Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 1990, Professor Frankford
clerked for the Honorable Irving L. Goldberg of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Fifth Circuit; worked as an associate at Wilmer, Cutler
& Pickering in Washington, D.C.; served as an associate professor at
the University of Miami School of Law; and was in private practice in
Philadelphia. He has also been a visiting associate professor at both
the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Temple University School of
Law.
Professor Frankford's writings have focused on the interactions
between health services research, health care politics and policy, and
the institutions of professions and professionalism. His works include
studies of state rate setting, hospital reimbursement, the regulation of
fee splitting, the debates concerning privatization and national health
insurance, the ideology of professionalism, the role of professionalism
in medical education, the role of scientism and economism in health
policy, issues of insurance coverage, and numerous other issues in
health care financing. With Sara Rosenbaum, he is the author of the
second edition of Law and the American Health Care System.
He has been involved in many grants to the Rutgers Center for State
Health Policy, offering analysis on such topics as state pharmacy
assistance programs and hospital responses to mandatory medical error
reporting. He also has participated in bioethics projects at The
Hastings Center and the Center for Bioethics at the University of
Pennsylvania. Currently his primary research interests concern the
reconstitution of professionalism as the normative integration of
professions and community, and the comparison of secular and religious
bioethics regarding such issues as the new genetics.
