House committee takes up medical malpractice reform once again
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Haymarket Media
Jul 17, 2006
A House committee has resumed the task of finding new solutions to medical malpractice reform. But this time it is considering alternatives to caps on noneconomic damages.
Release of annual Medicare report delayed to calculate effects of reform
Apr 07, 2010
Publication of the annual report detailing the financial health of the Medicare and Social Security programs will be three months later than usual to determine the effect of the healthcare reform law on...
Medicare plan collapses as Senate struggles for compromise on reform
Dec 16, 2009
A proposal to expand Medicare enrollment to adults aged 55 and older fell apart barely a week after it was first introduced in the Senate healthcare reform debate. That has been one compromise as Democrats...
Venue-shopping law change could lead to ‘skyrocketing’ liability claims, SNF experts warn
By
Marty Stempniak
Jan 24, 2019
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is exploring whether to allow plaintiffs’ attorneys to “venue shop” for the court with the highest payout. Such a move has healthcare advocates worried about the possibility...
Things I think: Windmills of change
By
Gary Tetz
Dec 02, 2012
I’ve driven up and down Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge roughly 486 times, give or take a thousand, for the past three decades.
Former hospital director, physician’s assistant plead guilty in $1 billion Esformes fraud case
By
Marty Stempniak
Jan 24, 2019
Two major players in a billion-dollar nursing home-related fraud case have pled guilty and could face years in prison.
Nurses highlight pro-nursing healthcare reform provisions in letter to Congress
Jan 13, 2010
Members of the American Organization of Nurse Executives recently expressed their support for certain pro-nursing provisions in the healthcare reform bills.
Editors’ Blog: The danger of cutting Medicare
Jul 31, 2009
It could seriously hurt seniors and the long-term care field if senators decide to reduce Medicare to fund healthcare reform.
Senate Finance Committee may question Berwick about healthcare reform
Nov 12, 2010
Donald Berwick, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, likely will field questions about healthcare reform when he testifies before the Senate Finance Committee next week.
Bush attack on malpractice awards meets opposition
By
Haymarket Media
Jan 07, 2005
President Bush fired his opening shots this week against large medical malpractice awards, but some leaders are voicing opposition to his proposed reforms.