American Medical News 1993 Brian McCormick |
Title | Subject | Authors |
AIDS patient claims hospital violated ADA, 'dumping' law. (Fred Charon; Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985) | Health | Brian McCormick |
AMA backs county society's disciplinary action. (American Medical Association; Dallas County Medical Society) | Health | Brian McCormick |
AMA board backs broader nonbias policy. (American Medical Association's Board of Trustees supports covering homosexuals in the group's anti-discrimination policy) (Annual Meeting Preview) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Antitrust advice: don't network yourself into a legal jam. (physicians must consider antitrust regulations in becoming part of vertically integrated health networks) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Antitrust relief coming, but what kind? (antitrust legislation permitting mergers, networks and other types of health care organizations) | Health | Brian McCormick, Julie Johnsson |
'Any willing provider' laws are a key reform issue. (laws require managed care organizations to contract with any physician willing to meet the contract terms) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Arizona dentists see end to antitrust charges. (Lanoy Aaron Alston, Ronald Walker, Richard Meyer) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Beware antitrust pitfalls in dealing with other providers. (health care) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Billing violators beware: Medicare to get tough with repeat offenders. (includes related article) | Health | Brian McCormick |
British Columbia MDs eye union; outcome of budget battle could be lesson for American doctors. (British Columbia Medical Association plans to seek recognition as a union) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Bush task force proposes expanded fraud legislation. | Health | Brian McCormick |
Challenging hospitals' exclusive contracts: FTC says physician complaints raised anticompetition question. (Federal Trade Commission; contracts limiting physicians to hospital privileges at a single institution) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Clinton expected to intensify antitrust enforcement. (health care industry) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Doctors less willing to settle on claims. | Health | Brian McCormick |
Doctor with mental illness threatens ADA suit. (Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; physician Celia Elbrecht sues HCA North Florida Regional Medical Center) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Enterprise liability backers stand firm. (hospitals and clinics, not physicians, would be liable for malpractice claims)(includes related article on malpractice insurance rates) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Enterprise liability model may not stand political heat. (tort reform that would exempt physicians from professional liability in malpractice cases) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Enterprise liability out. (Clinton administration abandons enterprise liability proposal) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Firing up tort reform debate; physicians push for proposals addressing antitrust, liability issues. | Health | Brian McCormick |
In antitrust relief fight, whose side are lawyers on? (antitrust clarifications in health care) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Insurers study errors leading to suits. (study by the Physician Insurers Association of America) | Health | Brian McCormick |
It's almost time - a Clinton reform preview. (Clinton's health care reform plan to be released) | Health | Brian McCormick, Sharon McIlrath, Leigh Page, Janice Somerville, Harris Meyer, Greg Borzo, Julie Johnsson, Wayne Hearn, Linda Oberman |
Kentucky physician files whistle-blower suit. (J. Hilton Brooks charges Medicare fraud) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Lawyers, consumers vow tort reform fight. (medical liability) | Health | Brian McCormick |
New Alliance leader actively supports health ed. (American Medical Association Alliance, Mary Hanson) | Health | Brian McCormick |
New president a 'statesman' for the AMA. (physician Joseph T. Painter will become president of the American Medical Association) | Health | Brian McCormick |
New self-referral scrutiny: in-office arrangements. (includes related article) | Health | Brian McCormick |
New York mulls no-fault plan for impaired infants. (removing infants with neurological impairment from the New York State tort system) | Health | Brian McCormick |
No discrimination against gays. (American Medical Association bars discrimination based on sexual orientation) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Nothing but the truth? Supreme Court weighs case that could put limits on testimony from medical experts. | Health | Brian McCormick |
Pressured by managed care? AMA will offer individualized, practical advice on how to cope. | Health | Brian McCormick |
Reformers willing, critics wary on alternative tort system. (tort reform would place medical liability on the institution that provides care instead of on the individual physician) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Researchers, doctors press for gay office at NIH. (National Institutes of Health) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Study: defensive medicine costs nearly $10 billion. (the cost of malpractice insurance and unnecessary tests to guard against law suits) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Swift legal action for worker whose firing violated ADA. (Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Throw the judges out: Texas doctors play tort reform hardball. (Texas Medical Association lobbies for tort reform and campaigns to replace elected judges that oppose it) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Violation of Disabilities Act? HIV-infected doctor says hospital cut privileges. (includes related article) | Health | Brian McCormick |
Why are there still so few minorities in medicine? (includes related article) (The changing face of medicine) | Health | Brian McCormick |
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