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CBO’s Faulty Reasoning Regarding Nationwide Medical Malpractice Reform

January 7, 2014

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), in its November 13, 2013 report entitled “Options For Reducing The Deficit 2014 to 2023: Health – Option 4,” acknowledges that medical malpractice laws have two objectives: deterring medical providers’ negligent behavior and compensatin[...]

13 Medicare Part B High-Billing Clinicians Responsible For $34M In Overpayments In 2009

December 29, 2013

In a report issued in December 2013 by the Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”), it was reported that 13 Medicare Part B clinicians, each of whom billed Medicare $3 million or more in 2009, were responsible for mor[...]

Main Cause Of Physician Shortage Is Lack Of Enough Residency Programs

November 23, 2013

One of the mantras of medical malpractice tort reform advocates is that “frivolous” medical malpractice lawsuits and the lack of caps (limits) on damages that innocent victims of medical malpractice may recover for their injuries are driving physicians from their practices, leading to a[...]

Drug Poisoning Is Leading Cause of Injury Deaths In U.S.

November 22, 2013

Drug poisoning deaths are now the leading cause of injury deaths in the United States, which have increased by more than 300% in the last 30 years, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. The increase has been seen in both urban areas and in rural areas,[...]

Hey, Where Did My Hospital Go?

November 20, 2013

You may have noticed that your local, independent hospital has either been taken over by a larger, regional health care system or has closed its doors altogether. The consolidation of hospitals in the United States is expected to increase in the coming years, especially influenced by the financ[...]

U.S. Health Care Statistics

November 15, 2013

In 2011, U.S. health care employed 15.7% of the U.S. workforce (1 in 25 health care employees is a physician); U.S. health care expenditures were $2.7 trillion; and, there were approximately 800,000 physicians and 2,700,000 nurses in the U.S. From 1980 to 2011, U.S. health care expenditur[...]

Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections In Hospitals

November 12, 2013

Between 250,000 and 500,000 central line-associated blood stream infections (“CLABSIs”) occur in hospitals in the United States annually. CLABSIs cause serious complications leading to longer inpatient stays, increased costs, and higher risk of death. It is estimated that the non-infl[...]

White-Footed Mouse May Spread Lyme Disease

November 7, 2013

It is well known that the “deer tick” (blacklegged tick) can be a carrier of the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and that deer are known hosts of adult deer ticks. However, the question has been posed as to why there has been a rise in the prevalence of Lyme disease in areas wh[...]

Study Finds Technology/Equipment Issues Involved In One-Quarter Of Operating Room Errors

November 1, 2013

A study published online on July 25, 2013 in BMJ Quality & Safety found that 1 in 4 operating room errors were due to technology or equipment issues. The researchers found that approximately 15 errors occur during a typical surgical procedure and that failure of equipment accounted for appro[...]

Study Finds That Defensive Medicine Does Not Affect Health Care Costs

October 31, 2013

One of the most noisy cries for medical malpractice tort reform in the United States is that medical providers engage in so-called defensive medicine in states where medical malpractice tort reform has not been enacted because they fear that if they do not practice defensive medicine, they will be [...]

New Study Finds New Doctors Are Discourteous

October 29, 2013

The results of an observational study conducted by Johns Hopkins investigators regarding new doctors (first year interns at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore) that was published this month online in the Journal of Hospital Medicine found that t[...]

Conflict Of Interest? Surgeons Who Profit From The Implanted Spinal Devices They Market

October 26, 2013

In a report issued earlier this week by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General, entitled, “Spinal Devices Supplied by Physician-Owned Distributors: Overview of Prevalence and Use,” the Inspector General sought to determine the extent to which s[...]

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