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By Daniel M. Bernick,, Esq., M.B.A. In our personal lives we are accustomed to signing contracts full of “fine print” and “legalese”: technical legal language ...

By Jonathan Teich, M.D. Physicians can do much to facilitate the selection and adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) and e-prescribing systems, including clinical decision support (CDS) ...

Bill Clinton made an effort, albeit unsuccessful, to advance his healthcare reform agenda.  George W. Bush didn’t get very far, either.  Now, after outlining plans ...

A recent study reveals that physicians prescribe placebo treatments in clinical practice on a regular basis – a practice that on its face appears to violate professional ethics and raises questions about how and why placebos are being used, the propriety of their use, and the very way in which “placebo effect” ought to be conceptualized.

Project to help providers evaluate and improve the quality of patient care, allow insurers to assess and evaluate the performance of their provider networks in a common way, and enable consumers to see how hospitals are performing.

PL: The new mental health parity bill affects insurance coverage for the treatment of mental illness and substance abuse for health plans that are regulated by federal law. It says that, for those plans covering more than 50 employees, mental illness must be treated under the same terms and conditions as any other illness.

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.