Critics of the transfer of the hospital to a Catholic group say women’s health care will suffer in Jefferson County. By Electa Draper The Denver Post Comprehensive women’s health care will no longer be available in Jefferson County next year if full ownership of Exempla Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge is transferred as planned […]

D.C. Hospital Loses Its National Accreditation By Susan Levine Washington Post Staff Writer http://www.washingtonpost.com Greater Southeast Community Hospital had its national accreditation yanked yesterday because of the overwhelming problems that pushed the District facility close to collapse for much of this year. The accreditation decision is another blow to the hospital’s standing in the community […]

By Jeffrey Young http://thehill.com The Bush administration has issued an eleventh-hour challenge to the physician lobby’s efforts to prevent a pending 10 percent cut in their Medicare fees, in the form of call for a mandate that doctors use new information technology standards. The administration wants to tie any legislation blocking the cut, scheduled to […]

http://www.insurancejournal.com The Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO) Board of Directors elected Thomas H. Grimstad, M.D., as its new president and chief executive officer. Dr. Grimstad will succeed John E. Lemoine, M.D., effective Jan.1, 2008. Since LAMMICO was founded in 1982, only three other physicians have led the Louisiana-based medical malpractice insurer, the company said. […]

By Christopher Lee Washington Post Staff Writer Lawmakers Seeking Curbs on Specialty Facilities Want to Attach Provision to Medicare Bill An end-of-the year push in Congress to stave off a 10 percent cut in the fees Medicare pays doctors has revived political interest in another thorny issue: whether physicians should be able to own the […]

Allows suit in crash caused by a patient By Liz Kowalczyk Globe Staff The state Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday that a doctor can be sued over a car accident caused by his patient, greatly expanding potential liability for the medical profession. A divided court said that the mother of a boy who was hit […]

http://www.earthtimes.org On November 20, 2007, a New Jersey court ruled that the referral of a patient to an ambulatory surgical center (“ASC”) in which the referring physician owns an interest — an everyday occurrence throughout the State — violates the New Jersey anti-self- referral law, commonly known as the Codey Act. N.J.S.A. 45:9-22.5. This ruling […]

A clear indication that Michigan’s 1993 tort reforms are working is that the state’s largest physician medical malpractice insurer is cutting its premiums by 12 to 25 percent for Wayne County physicians, the Michigan State Medical Society (MSMS) announced recently at a news conference in Detroit. The average decrease for all physicians in Wayne County […]

First Professionals Insurance Co. (FPIC) and Bentley Insurance Group (BIG) of Chicago have joined forces to protect physicians and surgeons with favorable loss histories in Illinois via an exclusive risk purchasing group, Bentley RPG. This approach began when BIG formed to provide MPLI coverage for Illinois doctors with favorable loss histories. Both BIG and FPIC […]