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 […]

http://www.businesswire.com NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AIG Risk Management (AIGRM), a unit of AIG Commercial Insurance, today announced several enhancements in support of its Higher Education, Real Estate, Healthcare and Temporary Staffing industry initiatives in the United States. In support of AIG Higher Education Risk Solutions, AIGRM’s Commercial Risk Division has refined its commercial auto product to now […]

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 […]

http://www.pr-inside.com/ Athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of internet-based business services to physician practices, and Physicians Practice(R), America’s leading practice management journal for physicians, today released the third annual PayerView(SM) Rankings announcing that Aetna has assumed the new number one overall ranking among national payers for their business dealings with physicians.

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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 […]