http://healthcare.dbusinessnews.com Portland — Acumentra Health and Northwest Physicians Insurance Company are pleased to announce the winners of the Patient Safety Alliance (PSA) Achievement Awards for patient care delivered in Oregon hospitals during 2007. The two organizations are cosponsors of the PSA collaborative, a multi-year quality and process-change initiative that engaged 19 Oregon hospitals in improving […]

Austin Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com Advocate MD Insurance of the Southwest Inc. has acquired a Mississippi medical liability insurance carrier. Austin-based Advocate MD bought Mississippi Medical Malpractice Availability Plan, a group with $25 million in assets. The Mississippi Insurance Department recently expedited the application process and licensed Advocate MD as a fully admitted medical liability insurance […]

NJ A.M. Best http://www.earthtimes.org/ OLDWICK, N.J. – (Business Wire) A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “a-â€? of AmerInst Insurance Group, Ltd. (AmerInst) (Bermuda). The outlook for both ratings is stable. These ratings reflect AmerInst’s conservative reserve position, its niche expertise as a […]

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The Wall Street Journal Front As the shortage of primary-care physicians mounts, the nursing profession is offering a possible solution: the “doctor nurse.” More than 200 nursing schools have established or plan to launch doctorate of nursing practice programs to equip graduates with skills the schools say are equivalent to primary-care physicians. The two-year programs, […]

Edward Langston, M.D. http://bangornews.com/ On July 1, the government health insurance program for seniors and the disabled will automatically begin draconian payment cuts to physicians. During a year and a half, the cuts translate to a loss of $50 million to Maine physician practices caring for Medicare patients. But the real losers are Medicare patients […]

Surendra Ullal http://indiapost.com/ CHICAGO: The Indian American Medical Association (IL) Charitable Foundation that operates a free medical clinic in Chicago, plans to create an endowment of $ one million in coming years to make the clinic self sufficient.Announcing this at the semi annual meeting and fundraising dinner event of the Foundation held at India House […]

Val Jones, MD http://www.revolutionhealth.com/ American physicians are appropriately frustrated about the high cost of medical malpractice insurance, and the frequency with which false and/or exaggerated claims are filed against them. In the Philadelphia region, a spine surgeon must pay upwards of $300,000.00 a year in malpractice insurance. The law allows Obstetricians to be sued for […]