Hospice, tort reform among topics for state, specialty groups

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Workplace safety and health, colorectal cancer guidelines, and management service organizations were some of the topics covered at the annual meetings of state and specialty medical societies in 1997. Medical savings accounts for Medicaid were discussed in Georgia and tort reform legislation sponsored the Iowa Medical Society was passed in Iowa. Physician-run HMOs will be studied in Mississippi, and South Carolina sought managed care legislation.

Medicine, Associations

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Antitrust reform: give physician-run networks a realistic shot at competing with health plans owned by insurers

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New antitrust enforcement guidelines could benefit physician-run networks. The new guidelines, which are expected in Aug 1996, are likely to adopt the rule-of-reason standard for evaluating physician-run networks. The rule-of-reason standard analyzes the actual effects of physician ventures on the health care market rather than assuming all physician-run networks to be anticompetitive.

Regulation, Licensing, and Inspection of Miscellaneous Commercial Sectors, Antitrust Law, Editorial, Forecasts and trends, United States. Federal Trade Commission

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