http://www.marketwatch.com PEARL RIVER, NY, Sep 30, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — J. M. Woodworth RRG, Inc. (JMW), the Risk Retention Group launched two years ago to provide medical malpractice insurance to physicians and surgeons in New York State, now has capital and surplus of more than $5 million, Sanford Elsass, President/CEO-Underwriting Manager, announced. “With […]

Zack Phillips http://www.businessinsurance.com One of out six liability claims against health care entities is associated with infections, injuries and other conditions acquired at the hospital, according to a new report. The 2008 Hospital Professional Liability and Physician Liability Benchmark Analysis, released Monday, found that hospital-acquired infections, hospital-acquired injuries, objects left in the body after surgery […]

http://www.marketwatch.com RALEIGH, N.C., Sep 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — DocSite, the leader in patient registries and point-of-care decision support services to the healthcare market, today announced the Texas Medical Association (TMA) is offering DocSite PQRI(TM) as a free membership benefit to physicians participating in Medicare’s Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI.) The TMA is the first […]

by Justin D. Anderson http://www.dailymail.com CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Recent reports show laws passed five years ago to deal with a medical malpractice crisis have had a dramatically beneficial effect.But a legislator who’s also executive director of the West Virginia Medical Association said the state is “one Supreme Court decision away” from being thrust back into the […]

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Dave Alexander http://blog.mlive.com GRAND RAPIDS — The West Michigan regional economy has been defined by the lumber, furniture and manufacturing industries during the past century and half. Over the next half-century, West Michigan’s economy might be led by health care and the life sciences, a panel of industry leaders told a recent business policy conference.

Home Sep 28, 2008 (The Times-Tribune – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — WMT | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating — Lackawanna County has a serious shortage of general surgeons that is causing patients to wait up to nine weeks for operations or go out of the area for treatment. Wait times to […]

by Dennis G. Smith http://www.heritage.org Congress needs to get serious about Medicaid. To borrow a medical analogy: If a state is the patient, and Congress is its doctor, giving states a temporary increase in the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) to treat the problems associated with Medicaid is malpractice. Medicaid needs surgery, and increasing the […]

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