By Jordan Rau Medicare is proposing a significant change in how it decides on hospital reimbursements, adding two measures of patient safety and a financial assessment of whether ...

By Lynn Lucas- Fehm, MD, JD Health systems across the nation are competing for patients, attempting to position themselves as the destination point for quality ...

By Joyce McLaughlin Hospitals frequently recruit physicians who are either Board Certified or “board eligible.” “Board Certified” in medicine means a physician has taken and ...

By Julie Appleby Nine prominent physician groups today released lists of 45 common tests and treatments they say are often unnecessary and may even harm patients. ...

By Walter Brasch A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures ...

By David W Hilgers, Esq. and Sidney S. Welch, Esq. The passage of the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (“PPACA”)[1] has already had a ...

By Alan Lyndon In today’s L.A. Times, Dr. Daniel J. Stone, an internist in Beverly Hills, CA, gives his take on the Patient Protection and ...

By Alan Lyndon “If the government can do that, what else can it” do? That question – asked by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in ...

By Lynn Lucas- Fehm, MD, JD Once upon a time there existed the much revered fictional TV doctor who exhibited compassion, wisdom and the ability ...

The Wall Street Journal today presented a profile of a private family medicine practice in Denver and the reasons it struggles to profit.  The Westminster ...