Nashville Business Journal by Erin Lawley http://nashville.bizjournals.com After years of legislative frustration, the Tennessee Medical Association is deploying a new tactic aimed at turning a medical liability reform bill into law. The organization has started an online and mail-in petition targeting supporters of medical liability reform. It plans to gather several thousand signatures and give […]

http://www.exduco.net An analysis of court settlements of medical malpractice cases in Texas and Florida shows that a reform plan known as “Early Offers” has strong advantages compared to the present tort system. Jeffrey O’Connell, professor of law at the University of Virginia, and colleagues W. Kip Viscusi and Joni Hersch, both now at Vanderbilt University, […]

Anne Thrower http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com A top official with the American Medical Association will visit Pensacola today and discuss his desire for a fundamental shift in the way employees get health insurance. Dr. Cecil B. Wilson, chairman of the AMA board of trustees, is scheduled to speak at the Escambia County Medical Society’s annual inauguration ball. He […]

http://virginiabeach.injuryboard.com An interesting issue relating to medical negligence suits has been percolating in Virginia for a number of years. The issue may need to be decided in the Supreme Court of Virginia in the near future because there is actually a split of the circuit courts within the State on this issue. Several Norfolk and […]

http://home.businesswire.com The Physician Insurers Association of America (PIAA), a national trade association that represents doctor-owned and/or operated medical professional liability insurance companies, commented today on a report released last week by Ralph Nader’s national group, Public Citizen. The report, “The Great Medical Malpractice Hoax,â€? suggests that there is no medical malpractice lawsuit crisis in America […]

http://www.northcountrygazette.org New York continues to see a decline in physician supply in the Finger Lakes and Western New York, despite overall gains statewide, according to a new study by the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the University at Albany’s School of Public Health. The report, Annual New York Physician Workforce Profile 2006, also finds […]

http://home.businesswire.com The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) unveiled a new program today that will recognize physicians and chiropractors who give superior care to the approximately 30 million Americans who suffer from back pain. The Back Pain Recognition Program (BPRP) will identify high-quality physicians and chiropractors who take a patient-centered approach to back pain using […]

By: Katie Allison Granju, Producer http://www.wbir.com Recent changes to TennCare will take treatment decisions away from doctors and put them in the hands of insurance companies, critics say. Doctors now have to provide the “least costly” treatment that is “adequate” for their TennCare patients, under new rules that went into effect last month but will […]

http://home.businesswire.com HIMSS 2007 Annual Conference MicroMD PM, the practice management software from Henry Schein Medical Systems, received the highest rating for user satisfaction in the Professional Association of Health Care Office Management (PAHCOM) survey of medical office managers and physician group practice administrators. MicroMD PM, a Windows-based, client/server practice management system used by medical groups […]