More and more doctors are supplementing their income by soliciting their patients to participate in clinical trials sponsored by pharmaceutical companies.
Utilization Review as the Practice of Medicine: Did you know that Ohio's Attorney General recently opined that physicians making utilization review decisions for third-party payors
While Congress is wrangling over a federal Patients' Bill of Rights, it should be remembered that Maryland passed its own Patients' Bill of Rights Act in 1999.
1. In September at its final meeting, the Health Resources Planning Commission (HRPC) approved a new open heart surgery program for Sacred Heart Hospital in Western Maryland.
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.
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.
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.
Earlier in 1998, the United States Supreme Court ruled, in a case involving dental services, that an individual who is HIV positive, but who has no symptoms of AIDS, is disabled and protected again
Home Health Compliance. Did you know that the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services has issued a model voluntary compliance plan directed at ho
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization (JCAHO), a private organization that accredits the nations' health care institutions, has adopted a new policy that encourages all a
The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), of the Department of Health and Human Services, has recently published its long-awaited proposed Stark II regulations.
