A new state report is warning Florida Governor-elect Rick Scott not to give physicians malpractice immunity for treating Medicaid patients, according to a report by the St. Petersburg Times.
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix has been stripped of its Catholic affiliations today, according to a Reuters report. Bishop Thomas Olmsted of Phoenix revoked his endorsement of the hospital over a 2009 procedure where an 11-week pregnancy…
Congressional Democrats have at least five strategies to resist Republican efforts to repeal all or part of the healthcare reform law when the new Congress arrives in January, according to a report by the Hill.
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix received a deadline extension to Tuesday to either meet Bishop Thomas Olmsted’s demands for moral teaching or lose its status as a Catholic hospital, according to USA Today report. The reprieve was…
A recent study has found tort reform may have little effect on defensive medicine practices since physicians have a disproportionate fear of being sued for malpractice compared to the actual risk, according to a University of Iowa news release. The…
Rohan Mullings, an anesthesiologist based in Cumberland, Md., was arrested Monday on charges of distributing narcotics and possessing marijuana, according to a Washington Examiner report.
President Obama has signed into law a one-year delay of the Medicare sustainable growth rate for physician reimbursements, according to a Washington Post report.
Medicare Administrator Donald Berwick, MD, and White House officials are about to hold a series of closed-door meetings with physicians and other providers on the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the Hill.
St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix may lose its Catholic status on Friday if its parent company, Catholic Healthcare West, doesn’t meet the demands of the city’s Catholic bishop, who insists an abortion was performed at the hospital,…
The Obama Administration will appeal the decision by a federal judge in Virginia this week striking down the individual mandate in the healthcare reform law, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.
