Novant’s New Star will offer them better control of malpractice-insurance premiums By M. Paul Jackson JOURNAL REPORTER Novant Health said yesterday that it has formed a medical-malpractice-insurance company to help its physicians better control their medical-malpractice premiums. The company, New Star Inc., will be based in Winston-Salem and will serve Novant’s doctors in North Carolina […]

Austin Business Journal http://austin.bizjournals.com The medical professional liability insurance provider American Physicians Service Group Inc. wants to raise at least $10 million by offering 2.3 million shares to the public soon. APS [NASDAQ: AMPH] Senior Vice President of Finance Bill Hayes says the company’s dividend this year is 30 cents per share, and a market […]

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com Research presented at Digestive Disease Week® 2007 (DDW®) examines a new endoscopic suturing method for the treatment of gastrointestinal perforations and other types of transgastric surgery, as well as the use of wireless capsule endoscopy in young children, to better understand the pathology of the small intestine. Endoscopic procedures are continually enhancing and improving […]

By Liz Freeman http://www.naplesnews.com The federal government may be deciding what it means to be a good doctor, a sure-fire way to anger a profession already under siege from a variety of fronts. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid is considering a recommendation from the General Accounting Office that it start a physician profiling system […]

A decision by a major medical group to post rates could push rivals to do the same, letting Californians shop. By Lisa Girion, Times Staff Writer LA TIMES California’s largest private physician practice has become one of the first doctor groups in the nation, and almost certainly the largest, to make prices for its medical […]

Lee Bowman/Scripps Howard News Service http://www.abqtrib.com We all make mistakes, even doctors from time to time. And in theory, it’s good to admit it when we make a mistake. But when it comes to doctors, a recent study suggests they’re more likely to say it’s important in theory to disclose a medical error to patients […]

http://www.emaxhealth.com Iowa’s supply of doctors has increased by more than 50 percent over the past 25 years, while the state’s population has remained stable, and this growth is expected to continue. On the other hand, relocation, rather than retirement, is the main cause of physician attrition in Iowa. These are among the findings included in […]

http://www.prnewswire.com HARRISBURG, PA — Ellen Smith, MD, (Lemoyne) is the Pennsylvania Academy of Family Physicians’ 2007 Family Physician of the Year. Dr. Smith, founding physician of Heritage Family Medicine in central Pennsylvania, was nominated by one of her patients and received the 18th annual award at PAFP’s recent annual meeting. “She personifies the role we […]

By BILL KACZOR Associated Press Writer TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Hospitals cannot be held liable in medical malpractice cases for failing to ensure doctors with staff privileges meet state financial responsibility requirements through insurance or other means, the Florida Supreme Court said Thursday. The unanimous ruling disapproved of decisions by three of the state’s five district courts […]