by PPN | Jan 31, 2020 | Iowa
SOURCE: The Gazette Last summer, Marshalltown’s UnityPoint hospital shuttered its maternity ward. The year before that, Washington County Hospital in southeast Iowa did the same. These closures weren’t outliers. According to the Iowa Department of Public Health, 28...
by PPN | Nov 26, 2019 | Connecticut, Iowa, Newsletter, Pennsylvania
Iowa’s liability climate is changing – for worse The Iowa Medical Society (IMS) highlighted how the state’s medical liability climate is shifting and threatening access to care in the Fall edition of Iowa Medicine. In 2017, a series of reforms including certificate of...
by PPN | May 30, 2017 | Iowa, National, New York, Newsletter, Oregon
Liability reform cited as major savings in President’s budget With an emphasis on deficit reduction, the President’s 2018 budget highlighted how medical liability reform can lead to improved fiscal health. Cited as resulting in major savings and reform, medical...
by PPN | May 30, 2017 | Iowa, News
Friday morning, Governor Branstad signed SF 465 — the IMS-crafted tort reform legislation. This legislation marks the culmination of decades of work by countless physicians throughout our state. “Today’s historic achievement is a victory for every...
by PPN | Apr 28, 2017 | Iowa, National, Newsletter, West Virginia
Medical liability reform – an issue of Price With Tom Price at the helm of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Congress likely to make systematic health care changes, chances for medical liability reform are stronger than ever. So say several experts...
by PPN | Apr 28, 2017 | Iowa, News
To the Editor Re G.O.P. Bill Would Make Medical Malpractice Suits Harder to Win (April 15): In 40 years of practicing medicine, I’ve witnessed a change in physician culture. Physicians no longer rely on clinical judgement based on training, experience and the best...
