by PPN | Mar 27, 2013 | News, Oregon
Gov. John Kitzhaber signed a bill today offering patients, doctors and hospitals an alternative to medical-malpractice lawsuits. Senate Bill 483 would allow them to enter into voluntary discussions and mediations, including settlement offers, under the authority of...
by PPN | Feb 22, 2013 | News
What single change could be made to the current health-care reimbursement system to help bring down costs? Recent Journal Report articles on the future of Accountable Care Organizations and the expansion of Medicaid have touched on the issue of cost reduction.The Wall...
by PPN | Feb 20, 2013 | New Jersey, News, Oklahoma, Texas
1. Routine Care, Unforgettable Bills When Sean Recchi, a 42-year-old from Lancaster, Ohio, was told last March that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, his wife Stephanie knew she had to get him to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Stephanie’s father had been treated...
by PPN | Jan 30, 2013 | Kansas, Missouri, News
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri lawmakers have their eyes on reinstating liability limits for medical malpractice cases after the state Supreme Court struck down an existing cap on damages last summer. Republicans claim a supermajority when the Legislature meets...
by PPN | Jan 30, 2013 | News
LANSING, MI – Michigan Republican Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation last week that strengthens the state’s medical malpractice tort laws and provides additional protection against lawsuits to physicians. The Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) initiated the...
by PPN | Jan 30, 2013 | New York, News
She was one of the most highly sought radiologists in her hospital, a doctor with the uncanny ability to divine the source of maladies from the shadows of black and white X-ray films. But one afternoon my colleague revealed that she had been named in a lawsuit,...
