Health law

The term medical law refers to the legal structure of the ( law of obligations ) legal relationship between doctor and patient, as well as by physicians with each other, next to the regulatory arrangements for the exercise of the medical and dental profession and the reporting of notifiable diseases.

This area of ​​law extends not only to the more general field of medical liability, ie the liability law relationship between doctor and patient, but includes in addition to the right of remuneration for private patients by means of fees for doctors ( GOA ), or the fees for dentists ( GOZ ), and physician- specific areas of law from the social security law ( social Code, especially SGB V) with health insurance license, fees treatment services of contract doctors or dentists, from the general professional law (approval, medical and dental professional regulations of the respective state Medical Association, or Landeszahnärztekammer ), for cooperative and legal relationship between physicians (physician advertising law, between doctors and their physicians' association, dentists and their dental supervisory agency medical company law, legal practice and transmission of practice sales and special arrangements for the exercise of the medical profession such as the X-ray Ordinance.

In a broader sense can be counted to the field of medical law and the hospital, the right of the nursing profession, the right of pharmacies and the pharmaceutical law. This area, which has a public focus is often also called health law.

2004 Specialist Lawyer designation was introduced lawyer specializing in medical law in Germany.