By Don McNay http://www.alliednews.com RICHMOND, Ky. In 2004, insurance companies pushed to cap medical malpractice awards. Kentucky was one of the few states to resist. Injured people framed public opinion, lobbied and had massive rallies. Kentucky withstood a national tidal wave. In order to cap jury awards, Kentucky would have to amend its constitution. An […]

H. Darr Beiser http://www.usatoday.com NASSAWADOX, Va. — In the modest building that houses Shore Memorial Hospital in this town of about 600 people between the Chesapeake and Hog Island bays, a health care crisis is brewing. It’s a problem rooted in the 1980s and 1990s, when U.S. medical schools put a cap on enrollments, believing […]

by Cindy F. Crawford – Birmingham Business Journal http://www.bizjournals.com Thanks to fewer client accidents in the fourth quarter of 2007, Birmingham’s ProAssurance Corp. reported a net income of $51.4 million, a 30 percent increase from the $35.7 million recorded same time last year. The nation’s fourth largest writer of medical professional liability insurance reported earnings […]

Management in Practice Homepage Practice managers and assistants are being invited to join a proposed new representative professional body. The vision for this professional body was established at a meeting of practice managers and other interested parties in January 2008. Organisers say it will be an independent body unaffiliated to any other existing organisation. Practice […]

By Eloise Aguiar http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com KAILUA — The number of doctors working in Windward O’ahu is on the decline, worrying people that a shortage of physicians that was once primarily a Neighbor Islands problem is festering here. In the past two years alone, eight doctors — including a family doctor, an internist, a spine surgeon, a […]

BY JILL DOSS-RAINES http://www.the-dispatch.com Several Lexington doctors’ offices will soon be part of the Novant Medical Group but will continue to treat their Davidson County patients locally, using Lexington Memorial Hospital for inpatient and outpatient services and testing, the doctors said this week. Novant Medical Group is a network of more than 1,000 doctors and […]

By Amy Lynn Sorrel http://www.ama-assn.org A legal dispute in Washington state has doctors worried that their ability to employ other licensed medical professionals — and ultimately compete in health care — may be compromised. The owner of a physical therapy group is suing an orthopedic practice, saying the doctors are profiting illegally from referrals they […]

The Olympian http://www.theolympian.com For a modest investment of $3 million, state lawmakers could help ease the shortage of primary care physicians across Washington. South Sound, like Eastern Washington and other sectors of the state, has a shortage of primary care doctors. New physicians can make more money by going into a specialty. The shortage of […]

Advertiser Staff http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com A panel will discuss the physician shortage in Windward O’ahu and possible solutions to the problem at a free public forum at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at Castle Medical Center Auditorium, 640 ‘Ulukahiki St. The panelists include Dr. Linda Rasmussen, legislative co-chairwoman of the Hawai’i Medical Association; Kevin Roberts, president and CEO of […]