We had a chance to watch President Obama’s news conference earlier today and it got us thinking. Will the following wording expose physicians to more risks, this is directly from the White House: PRESERVE THE RIGHTS OF HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS TO PROTECT THEIR PATIENTS AND COMMUNITIES FROM GUN VIOLENCE: We should never ask doctors and […]

The famous wrestler Hulk Hogan can now be added to the long list of folks who has filed a medical malpractice suit.  Terry Bollea, Hulk Hogan’s real name, was having really bad lower back pain in 2009.  He visited 3 Tampa Bay physicians to get a diagnosis……all three of them recommended major back surgery. The […]

Everyone can agree that when it comes to healthcare, we want the best to be based here, in the United States.  However, getting to that destination is where people disagree.  One area that has doctors upset is Patient Satisfaction Surveys.  We actually built our own Patient Survey System about 10 years ago, and have had […]

I recently came across discussion of a new end-of-life care study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology that I’d like to talk about today. End-of-life care is tough, even on a good day. It seems to me that taking care of patients at the end of life and/or going into a field of medicine with […]

Just before Christmas, the AMA released a letter that they sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that they should stop the implementation of ICD-10-CM.  This letter was signed by nearly nearly 40 national physician organizations. ICD-10-CM is the 10th revision for outpatient diagnosis coding.  This new coding structure is set to increase […]

Everything we read lately talks about how doctors are having their practices turned inside and out by the government’s henchmen…..otherwise known as RAC Audits.  RAC Audits are essentially the governments way of making sure physicians are not over-billing.  If they find fraud…..well, you can be in a real world of hurting.  We highly suggest you […]

We have spent a lot of time talking about the Affordable Care Act and how it will effect healthcare professionals…..both from a monetary standpoint as well as a doctor/patient relationship position.  However, we have not really touched upon the impact on the average citizen who does not get coverage through their employer.  One of the […]

Today I would like to write to you not as a professional health care blogger, as I usually do, but as a parent of a medically complex child who has had many, many encounters with physicians and health care providers. My son was diagnosed in utero with a multicystic kidney –enough to make any (especially […]

The American Tort Reform Foundation (ATRF) released its 2012/2013 Judicial Hellholes report last month. The annual release documents abuses of the civil justice system in jurisdictions the pro-tort reform group says are among the most unfair and out-of-balance in the nation. The ATRF is a branch of the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), an umbrella […]