By Bill Toland, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pennsylvania’s doctors, especially high-risk surgeons and physicians from the east who pay higher medical malpractice rates, worry that a state-mandated change in insurance could result in an overnight 25 percent increase in their premiums. Any doctor who does the majority of his work in Pennsylvania is required by state law […]

By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff Two popular Boston internists are closing their busy practices, leaving most of their 7,500 patients to find new doctors, as the physicians open a small concierge practice that will charge individuals a $3,600 yearly fee to join. Dr. Jeffrey Bass, 50, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Dr. Ronald Katz, […]

AMA to seek probe of in-store clinics By Bruce Japsen Tribune staff reporter chicago tribune In an attempt to ratchet up scrutiny on the proliferation of in-store clinics being opened by retail giants, the American Medical Association said Monday that it will ask state and federal agencies to launch widespread investigations into the fast-growing patient-care […]

By Adam Jadhav ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH People claiming injuries and the doctors they sue now must meet and at least talk of settling any time a medical malpractice case is filed, according to rules adopted Monday by the Madison County court. The effort is aimed at healing wounds in an arena of law overtaken by […]

By Eric Torbenson and Jason Roberson, The Dallas Morning News The Insurance professionals only source for News Four years ago, Texas limited how much patients could win in a medical malpractice lawsuit. Since then, doctors, patients and lawyers have seen many of the changes predicted by both sides in that bitter debate come to pass. […]

Dr. Alexander Strasser Guest essayist http://www.democratandchronicle.com One seldom hears physicians express satisfaction in the way medicine is practiced. Why? What has changed over the past 10 to 15 years? Doctors used to be self-employed. They worked for their patients and if they did a good job, they prospered. Now most physicians are employed. Yes, they […]

http://home.businesswire.com A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) and assigned an issuer credit rating (ICR) of “bbb+â€? to Physicians Insurance Mutual Group and its members, Physicians Insurance A Mutual Company and its reinsured subsidiary, Western Professional Insurance Company. The outlook for the FSR has been revised to positive from […]

http://www.berkshireeagle.com The state law requiring all residents to have health insurance will, if successful, take a huge burden off the state’s emergency rooms, cutting down the high costs of that service, but it will put much of that burden on the state’s already over-extended primary care physicians. These physicians are the critical component of preventive […]

By Liz Freeman http://www.naplesnews.com Despite efforts to crack down sooner against physicians in Florida who harm patients, the state Board of Medicine has a mediocre standing when it comes to serious disciplinary measures against physicians, according to a new analysis. Mariner Apts & Motel The Florida Board of Medicine ranks 35th among the nation’s 51 […]