Thanks to a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), state regulation of health care is likely to increase substantially.
In May of 1999, Maryland's highest court addressed two issues of interest to the medical community - sexual harassment and the definition of the practice of medicine.
Tax-exempt hospitals appear to be swinging back from the days of experimenting with for profit ventures that assumed managed care risk or operated physician practices.
Maryland's hospital rate-setting commission, the Health Services Cost Review Commission (HSCRC), has traditionally allowed third-party payors to pay Maryland hospitals 4% less than the hospitals' a
Health care providers should take notice of the expanding role of State Attorneys General in the internal corporate activities of nonprofit health care entities.
Can physicians increase their bargaining power in negotiations with managed care plans (MCPs)? One way is for physicians collectively to negotiate their contracts with MCPs.
1. In March, the Health Care Access and Cost Commission (HCACC) released its annual report on health care expenditures and utilization based on 1997 data.