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Dallas Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com/ A house bill that passed the Texas Legislature in 2003 is now receiving credit for getting emergency physicians back into the ER. The Texas College of Emergency Physicians held a press conference in Austin on Tuesday, thanking lawmakers for the passage of House Bill 4 six years ago — a move […]

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Aaron S. Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., and David M. Studdert, LL.B., Sc.D. http://content.nejm.org/ The U.S. Supreme Court is currently considering the case of Wyeth v. Levine, whose central question is whether approval of a pharmaceutical product’s label by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should protect the manufacturer from litigation by patients alleging that they were […]

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By Anne Zieger http://www.fiercehealthcare.com The Joint Commission has begun posting a wide range of quality data on the Web, including patient-satisfaction survey results and 30-day mortality rates for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia. The website allows consumers to look up information on how their peers felt about the care they received at hospitals, drawn from […]

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By Jay Greene http://www.crainsdetroit.com With the jobless rate in Michigan hitting levels not seen in two decades and people losing their health insurance or reducing coverage to save on premium dollars, hospitals are overhauling their billing and collection systems to stem the rising tide of bad debt and charity care that is chipping away at […]