HEALTHCARE NEUTRALTM BLOG

The Healthcare Neutral Blog will share ideas and developments in alternative dispute resolution, healthcare business and law.

Successful Physicians And Healthcare Reform: Will Old Dogs Learn New Tricks?

     Last week I was fortunate to hear a presentation to a group of hospital trustees and senior management by noted healthcare consultant Jamie Orlikoff. For three hours, Jamie shared…

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Guido v. Duane Morris: Court Requires Kabuki Dance For Mediated Settlement

     Earlier this year I wrote about the oral argument before the New Jersey Supreme Court in Guido v. Duane Morris. The case concerns the plaintiffs\’ right to sue their…

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Contracting For The Unknown Using ADR

                             [Image: “Cap\’n Archie” fortune telling machine, Archie McPhee store, Seattle, Washington, March 20, 2007, by Joe Mabel]        Healthcare providers and insurers sign contracts every day that extend…

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Emotions In Mediation: Beware The Runaway Train

     Every dispute comes to mediation wrapped in emotion. Sometimes it relates to the wrong or harm arising from the conduct that triggered the dispute. Other times, it is simply…

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What’s A Doctor Worth To A Hospital?

     In the ongoing symbiotic relationship between hospitals and members of their medical staffs, it is understood that the physicians generate hospital revenue by admitting their patients and ordering tests…

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Medicaid Cuts Will Strain Hospital – Physician Relations

     Kevin Sack wrote earlier this week in The New York Times about the effect Medicaid cuts are having on patients throughout the country. The focus of that article was…

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