While President Obama’s team considers ways to lower the cost of health care and make it available for everyone, it’s time that We The People put our pencils and heads to the problem as well. At the end of 2008, Vice-President-Elect Joe Biden asked people to meet and talk and think and report back to …
Medical Liability Monitor, which conducts an annual survey, recently announced that physician’s malpractice rates were lower 43% percent of the time. An additional 49.8% remained stable from 2007-2008. Merely 7.4% of the doctors surveyed reported any increase, and the overwhelming majority of those increases were very small, less than 10%. Needless to say, this is …
An unusual law in New Hampshire, which has fired up passions on both sides since it was passed three years ago, is now under scrutiny, and at least one lawmaker is calling for its repeal. The idea may have meant well, and the statistics would seem to show it’s working, but there are hidden aspects …
William R. Berkley, who started his company in 1967 with an investment of $2500, began by managing other people’s money. Forty years later, his is a Fortune 500 company, an international firm with over 30 lines and annual revenues in excess of $5 billion USD, and yet it’s a family business. Berkley’s company has already …
The Doctors Company lowered medical malpractice insurance rates recently — to levels as low as, or lower than, SCPIE’s rates. This has raised concern about the wisdom associated with such a move. Actuaries at The Doctors Company apparently determined that although the rates were insufficient to maintain SCPIE’s financial stability, TDC will be be able …
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Malpractice seems like it should have a fairly standard meaning, but apparently that meaning is different in Saudi Arabia. Mohammad Al-Yami was a straight-A student in need of corrective surgery in 2005, if he was to be allowed into the King Khaled Military Academy. He had the procedure performed there in Saudi, at the Dr. …
Washington State University and NexCore Group of Denver have signed a letter of intent for healthcare real estate development of the Pine Street Project at the Riverpoint Campus, the subject of a request for proposals the university published in late March 2008. Arthritis Northwest, PLLC has been identified as the flagship tenant for the building …
Beginning in May of 2009, the public will be able to go to a website, search for physicians’ files, and take a very close look at the history of that doctor. This same information is already available for some 1300 Colorado physicians, but is about to include the remaining 2000 doctors, thanks to CO HB …
The talk of the healthcare industry these days is Electronic Health Records, (EHR, EPR, etc.) and other electronic communications (such as virtual visits, email communications with patients, online consults, whether with or without video, etc.) Yes, the Internet and computers have much to offer, potentials we’ve only begun to tap. A few years ago, there …
Generally speaking, once a premium is paid to an insurance company, it is gone. The Louisiana Medical Mutual Insurance Company (LAMMICO,) which was founded in 1981, announced its first dividend to policyholders in the spring of this year, 2008. That’s quite a long time to wait for a dividend return, if it were just that …
