The legislation would deny illegal immigrants child tax credits they can currently claim, while new curbs on medical malpractice lawsuits are credited with driving down Medicare and Medicaid costs. The bill, passed after a passionate, sometimes hyperbolic ... Read more »
Amendment 26 offers more harm than good – Hattiesburg American
Drive up the costs of Medicaid, Medicare, health insurance, medical malpractice insurance. Violate patient-doctor confidentiality. Read more »
Senate overrides Gov. Perdue’s vetoes – The Business Journal
Beverly Perdue issued in late June and early July. The action by the Republican-controlled Senate keeps alive legislation that dealt with medical malpractice, regulatory reform, energy exploration, dues deductions for teachers, Medicaid and the Employment ... Read more »
New York City medical malpractice attorney: High rates of HACs in NYC hospitals – Caymanmama.com
According to data recently released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, certain New York metropolitan hospitals have relatively high rates of Hospital Acquired Conditions (HAC), as reported by New York City medical malpractice attorney ... Read more »
Psychiatrists with corrupt pasts found working in juvenile justice facilities and doping children – Natural News.com
Their histories include not only grand theft and medical malpractice, but overmedicating patients to the point of death. Dr. Gold Smith Dorval pleaded no contest in 2004 to a grand theft charge after a probe found he billed Medicaid for more than $350,000 ... Read more »
Rod Jetton pleads guilty, receives probation for assault – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
He was a key figure in passing a host of GOP-backed legislation in 2005, including controversial cuts in Medicaid and caps on medical malpractice lawsuits. He also attracted controversy by running a political consultant business while still a House member. Read more »
Hospitals, nursing homes face big cuts – St. Augustine Record
And they spent hours arguing about issues such as abortion and medical malpractice. House and Senate Republican leaders agreed for months that the Medicaid system needed to be overhauled and even how to do it: Require beneficiaries to enroll in managed-care plans. Read more »
New York Governor’s Medicaid Redesign Team’s Work Continues – WGRZ TV
Developing ways of reforming the medical-malpractice system. Read more »
HMOs et al are $22b session winners in Medicaid overhaul – MiamiHerald.com
Also, for the first time, people who sue Medicaid doctors and hospitals would have their pain-and-suffering awards dramatically limited to $300,000 per case – far less than conventional medical-malpractice awards. Read more »
National View: Obama deficit plan may bring compromise closer – South Coast Today
Others include reforming medical malpractice laws, changing the Medicaid reimbursement system and imposing mandatory caps on total health care spending. Read more »