by PPN | Apr 30, 2024 | Florida, Illinois, latest_news, National, New York, News
The United States is facing a shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists that is only expected to worsen moving forward. There were about 50,800 OB-GYNs practicing in the U.S. in 2018, already too few to meet the country’s rising demand. Roughly 3,000 fewer OB-GYNs will...
by PPN | Oct 30, 2023 | Alabama, California, COVID, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, National, New York, Newsletter, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Washington
Liability reform elevated to presidential debate state Earlier this month, one presidential candidate offered up a tried and true way to improve access to patient care while lowering costs for Americans — through medical liability reform. A Wall Street Journal...
by PPN | Oct 30, 2023 | California, Florida, Illinois, latest_news, National, New York, News, South Carolina
The Republican presidential candidates during last week’s debate offered few useful ideas to improve healthcare and lower costs. But credit to Nikki Haley for highlighting one: tort reform. Asked how to protect sick Americans from financial ruin, she mentioned the...
by PPN | Apr 30, 2023 | California, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, National, New Mexico, New York, Newsletter, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah
Patient protection: Good Samaritan legislation introduced in Congress The Good Samaritan Health Professionals Act of 2023 was re-introduced in the House of Representatives this month, to close the gap in available medical coverage during federally declared disasters...
by PPN | Apr 30, 2023 | California, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, latest_news, National, New York, News, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah
Court cases show that physicians continually underestimate their liability in supervising nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs). Even in states that have abolished requirements that NPs be physician-supervised, physicians may still be liable...
by PPN | Apr 29, 2021 | Illinois
SOURCE: American Medical Association Illinois physicians recently escaped seeing the medical liability climate in the state become even more burdensome, but now face another challenge. Gov. J.B. Pritzker recently vetoed a bill that would have required physicians to...
