by PPN | Aug 30, 2022 | New Mexico, New York, Newsletter, North Carolina, Uncategorized
Fixing the Ill Effects of New Mexico’s Liability Changes While efforts in 2021 to modernize medical liability laws in New Mexico were well-intended, the aftereffects have left a gap in coverage for hospitals and outpatient health care facilities (OPHCFs) that...
by PPN | Jul 28, 2022 | News, Uncategorized
SOURCE: Health Affairs For decades, the level and growth of US health care spending has diverged from both international and domestic norms, leading many to characterize rising health expenditures as “unsustainable.” Between 1970 and 2019, total US health spending...
by PPN | Jun 30, 2022 | Iowa, Kansas, National, Newsletter
Defensive medicine brings inflation to health care costs As inflation touches on every aspect of consumer prices, health care costs have been continually increasing due to the practice of defensive medicine — and could go up even higher from here. An opinion piece in...
by PPN | Jun 30, 2022 | National, News
SOURCE: Health Affairs For decades, the level and growth of US health care spending has diverged from both international and domestic norms, leading many to characterize rising health expenditures as “unsustainable.” Between 1970 and 2019, total US health spending...
by PPN | Jun 30, 2022 | Michigan, National, News
SOURCE: AMA If a plaintiff in Michigan files a medical liability lawsuit, they must, with few exceptions, file the affidavit of merit within the statute of limitations or have the lawsuit dismissed with prejudice, physicians tell the Michigan Supreme Court. Plaintiffs...
