Low reimbursement rates squeeze the earnings at doctors’ offices By Thomas Gaudio Home Mounting pressure on doctors stemming from Medicare has New Jersey physicians thinking about dropping patients with the federal insurance. More than 1.2 million people in the state have Medicare, which provides health insurance for individuals 65 and older, and for the disabled […]

New Richmond News The state fund that covers medical malpractice claims had to borrow millions after the governor and legislature raided it to balance the new state budget. According to the Wisconsin State Journal, the fund borrowed $46 million from other state accounts just to cover its obligations. And its paying interest on that money. […]

BY DR. JAY GROSSMAN Special To The Miami Herald http://www.miamiherald.com Re: ”My view: Future of med-mal caps in doubt,” by Hector Lombana Mr. Lombana would love to go back to the halcyon days when attorneys made big bucks by milking the medical malpractice cow for all it was worth. Fortunately for physicians who practice here […]

http://www.ama-assn.org About 1,200 New Jersey physicians received $16 million last month to help pay their medical liability insurance, according to the state’s Dept. of Banking and Insurance. The payments to eligible ob-gyns, neurosurgeons and radiologists are from a state subsidy fund set up in 2004 to ensure doctors could afford coverage. They represent the last […]

by By Frank Donnelly http://www.silive.com State’s plan to assess 50Gs more will force many to close practices, Island opponents say Staten Island doctors fear a proposal being floated to hit them with a $50,000 surcharge to solve the state’s medical malpractice insurance funding woes could drive droves of physicians, from internists to high-risk specialists, out […]

http://abbeynationalinsuran.gratuitcfree.com Do coast national insurances face a malpractice crisis? In the first systematic multi-year analysis of malpractice claims solely against national grange mutual insurance, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine report in the July issue of the journal Pediatrics that the answer is neither yes nor no. “We studied pediatricians and malpractice because […]

By JULIUS A. KARASH http://www.kansascity.com As costs and the numbers of uninsured keep trending upward, health care has emerged as the most important domestic issue of 2008. Here are PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Research Institutes predictions for the top eight health industry issues of the coming year:

Health Plans Say New Rules Improve Safety and Cut Costs; Hospitals Can’t Dun Patients By VANESSA FUHRMANS http://online.wsj.com/ Health insurers are taking a new tack in a bid to improve patient safety and reduce health-care costs: refusing to pay — or let their patients be billed — for hospital errors. Aetna Inc., WellPoint Inc. and […]

By STATE REP. GLEN CASADA http://www.rctimes.com Tennessee-As the second half of the 105th General Assembly gets under way, the legislature is faced with how to solve many problems in the areas of education, the budget and immigration. However, one of the major problems brewing in this state is that of medical malpractice. Attempts were made […]