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Aug 20, 2007
Healthy Americans Act is a blueprint for reform

By Judd Gregg http://www.seacoastonline.com Editor’s note: The writer is the senior U.S. senator from New Hampshire. He is a member and former chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Over the past decade, many ideas about how to reform the U.S. health-care system have been debated in Washington. Some good and some […]

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Aug 20, 2007
Insurance provider lowers physician reimbursements while earnings grow

http://www.lubbockonline.com Many residents of the West Texas and eastern New Mexico region may be thinking the negotiations between the physicians of Covenant Medical Group and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas are simply about money. Blue Cross would have you believe this dispute is solely due to physician greed. That is as far from the […]

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Aug 20, 2007
GUEST COMMENTARY: Physician-Driven Malpractice Insurance: A Model that Works

By Lewis S. Sharps, M.D. http://www.huntingtonnews.net President, Positive Physicians Insurance Exchange The health care industry was at a crossroads in 2002. Rising costs stemming from the increase of malpractice claims created a dangerous ripple effect: Several major medical liability insurers went out of business, limiting the options for doctors. Access to care was threatened by […]

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Aug 17, 2007
NY AG warns insurers on doc rankings

http://money.cnn.com Attorney General Andrew Cuomo asked Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AEF) (NYSE:AET) and Cigna Corp. (NYSE:CI) on Thursday to explain how they recommend doctors to patients after finding the insurers’ physician-ranking programs to be confusing or even deceiving. ‘Ratings can be a very good thing if these ratings are accurate and fair and transparent. The more information […]

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Aug 16, 2007
Risk Retention Groups Essential Alternative to Failing Malpractice Insurers in New York State

http://www.marketwire.com Well-capitalized and managed Risk Retention Groups (RRG) provide the essential alternative to failing existing insurers for New York physicians and surgeons seeking stable, comprehensive, competitively priced malpractice insurance, Sanford “Sandy” Elsass, President-Underwriting Manager for J. M. Woodworth RRG, told a Congressional hearing today in Brooklyn. Chaired by Rep. Edolphus Towns (10th District, NY), the […]

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Aug 15, 2007
House calls? This doctor really cares

http://www.berkshireeagle.com Clarence Fanto The doctor is in the house — literally. At a time when primary-care physicians are scarce, especially in Berkshire County, it is surprising to find one who still makes house calls — not every day, but whenever an elderly patient is housebound, unable to travel and needs medical attention. Following in the […]

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Aug 13, 2007
Doctor malpractice insurance gets new player

BY BRUCE JAPSEN http://www.chicagotribune.com Competition in the state’s medical malpractice insurance market has intensified, with a Texas company the latest to launch professional medical liability coverage for Illinois physicians. Medicus Insurance Co. of Austin said it has begun offering malpractice coverage for the state’s doctors, saying the climate to operate in Illinois has improved thanks […]

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Aug 13, 2007
Board Votes to Privatize Medical Malpractice Plan

http://www.wlbt.com by Jon Kalahar Five years ago the “medical malpractice availability plan” was created by the state legislature to keep physicians from leaving Mississippi. It offered doctors malpractice insurance they desperately needed to practice medicine. Now through tort reform, the plan can be sold to a private company. We explain how the state went from […]

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Aug 13, 2007
Hospital insurance rates to stay level

http://blog.masslive.com By MICHAEL McAULIFFE With malpractice claims down and awards not rising significantly, the Medical Professional Mutual Insurance Co. has announced that for the first time since 1996 it will not raise medical liability insurance rates this year for hospitals, clinics, clinical laboratories and community health centers in the state. In Western Massachusetts, ProMutual insures […]

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