Failure by one valuator or another to understand these factors can lead to an incorrect valuation, usually an overstatement of the true value of the medical practice.

Hospitals have increased their desire to incorporate hospitalists into their medical staffs and many physician practices are investigating ways to incorporate these unique practitioners into their practices.

Hospitals and physicians can dramatically reduce their malpractice exposure through precautions and procedures undertaken as part of a facility or system-wide malpractice audit.

Patient Safety Authority seeks ways to reduce reporting variability and launches expanded educational initiatives.

The connection of medical liability premium subsidies to health insurance expansion has led to a political impasse, which could cost Pa. health care providers billions of dollars over the next ten years and severely impair efforts to recruit physicians to the state for years to come.

It’s the right time to consider purchasing disability insurance as “own occ” is back, new options are available, limits have increased and more insurance companies have entered the market.

Even as the baby-boomer generation requires more physicians to treat chronic illnesses, the health care workforce is increasingly comprised of physicians seeking to balance time within clinical practice with other interests and commitments.

Doctors and health care providers have an obligation to address both the handling of the information by staff and authorized agents, and also the physical and technical safeguards in place to protect electronic health information.

An introduction to the primary U.S. federal laws as they apply to manufacturer support of continuing medical education, and an update on current federal initiatives designed to regulate these relationships.

Physicians can build their skills in the area of communicating effectively across cultures, asking particular questions of their patients, and being able to negotiate in ways that will improve the outcomes for diverse patient populations.