Tort Reform and Frivolous Lawsuits: Show Me the Money
The following excerpt is from a great post by MD Whistleblower Years ago, as a younger and more idealistic gastroenterologist, I was kept dangling on a lawsuit for a few years. I endured the light hearted amusement of the discovery process, including expert witnesses outside … Read more
Rasmussen: 63% of Voters Favor Repeal of Health Care Reform — But Is That So?
According to Rasmussen Reports, the percentage of people who favor repeal of the national health care plan is at its highest point ever, 63% in favor of repeal … “Political Class” shows 77 percent of the people are actually in favor of the bill, feel it will be good for the country.
In the Trenches: A Practical Look at the New Health Care Reform Law
Doctors are selling off their practices to become employees, and hospitals are eagerly embracing the opportunity to buy up those assets and gain highly paid specialists in the process… Hoping to control costs, insurance companies have begun buying up medical clinics and physicians’ practices…
On Your Epitaph: I Wish I Had Worked Another Day?
You woke up with a pulse today. No matter what else happens, you are off to a good start. The practice of medicine can be frustrating. If all you had to do was make a diagnosis, remove a tumor, or comfort a patient’s family, though … Read more
Here’s Some Money. Use This EMR. Have a Nice day
Some professional liability carriers are offering discounts to physicians who have implemented electronic medical records (“EMR”). Further, under the stimulus package which was signed into law, doctors who meaningfully use EMR by 2011 will be eligible for federal subsidies up to $44,000 per practitioner. That … Read more
$220M for Pilot Communities’ EHR – Jackpot for Them, But No Practical Solutions In Sight
The joint statement from Sebelius and Vice President Joe Biden suggests that the pilot programs will support tens of thousands of jobs in the health IT industry. One would hope so. It would also pay for 18,000 $800 laptops or 29,333 $500 desktop computers in each of those communities. In short, depending on populations, that much money should just about put a computer on every street corner and medical office, and still leave money to spare
Photography Consent and Related Legal Issues
Facial Plast Surg Clin N Am May 2010; Page 237 – 244 By: Jeffrey Segal, MD, JD, FACS and Michael Sacopulos, JD Abstract: The use of photography is an integral part of any plastic surgery practice. Photographs are part of the patient’s medical record and … Read more
The 81 Million Dollar Misdemeanor
This isn’t a drug that has caused deaths. It’s not even inherently responsible for injuries… The promoting of a drug which has already been released as generic should cost Johnson & Johnson (the manufacturer’s parent company) 81 MILLION dollars in fines?
This nation is largely run by lawyers — lawyers who have systematically and categorically refused to enact any restriction or restraint against frivolous lawsuits, put any caps on damages, even refused to limit the PERCENTAGE that a plaintiff’s attorney can receive as compensation. They’re not about to rein themselves in. Of course not. It’s big money for them — HUGE sums. And we, the doctors and the patients, will be stuck picking up the bill, again and again.
Senate Positioning to Regulate Health Insurance Premiums
Mr. Harkin went on to explain that “rate review authority is needed to protect consumers from insurance companies’ jacking up premiums simply because they can.” … UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest insurers, reported first-quarter earning increases of 21 percent, a gross profit of $1.19 billion. While insurance companies may not continue to realize such gains once some of the larger aspects of the new law comes into effect, 1.19 billion is still a lot of elbow room. The profits directly contradict AHP’s cries of unbearable burdens.
WARNING: “Obamacare” Insurance Scams Emerging
In Alabama, fears of “government health care reform” have caused people to give a con man their bank account info over the phone. In Kansas, people have been claiming to be government employees collecting payments for the newly required “Obamacare” insurance.
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