HEALTHCARE NEUTRALTM BLOG

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

Welcome John DeGroote – Settlement Perspectives Blog!

               [Image: White Stork – welcoming the newly arrived, by Manfred Heyde, June 19, 2007]      The dispute resolution blogosphere grew stronger recently with the launching of “Settlement Perspectives,”…

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Mediation Offers Better Odds Than Going To Trial

          Advocates of mediation often point to several advantages of that process over conventional courtroom litigation: the uncertainty (risk) of a litigated outcome; imperfect decision-making by the judge or jury;…

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5th Circuit’s Poliner Decision Boosts HCQIA Immunity

         [Image: U.S. Hygiene Laboratory photo of Schick test, a measure of immunity from diphtheria, 1915]           It may be the weather, the economy, or the mounting pressure on hospitals…

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Less Can Be More: Success Fee Billing And ADR

                        [Image: “Bronze Gate” (2005) is a cor-ten steel work by sculptor Robert Morris set in the garden of the dialysis pavilion in the hospital of Pistoia, Italy.]                                                                                                                                                                                                             …

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Healthcare Is Not Recession Proof

          I just read an excellent post by Jeff Goldsmith in The Health Care Blog entitled “Health care is not recession proof.” In it, he debunks the “conventional wisdom” that…

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Special Issue Of New Jersey Lawyer Covers Healthcare Law

          The current issue of in Re: Magazine, the special supplement to the weekly newspaper, New Jersey Lawyer, is dedicated to healthcare law and is online now.                    In…

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