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

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Choosing Your Healthcare ADR Provider

October 31, 2007 | Archived, Healthcare Arbitration, Healthcare Mediation, Healthcare Regulatory Actions

[Image: New potato releases by Agriculture Research Service scientists give us even more choices of potatoes to eat.  Photo by Scott Bauer.]             If you are a party or…

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Healthcare Conflicts Appropriate For ADR

October 30, 2007 | Archived, Commercial Healthcare Disputes, End of Life and Treatment Decisions, Healthcare Regulatory Actions, Hospitals, Physicians and Medical Staffs, Managed Care Payment and Coverage Issues, Medical Malpractice Claims

                                                [Image: Cliffs of Moher, Ireland, Photo by Tobias Helfrich, March 27, 2004]           The range of conflicts arising…

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ADR as Tort Reform

October 29, 2007 | Archived, Healthcare Mediation, Medical Malpractice Claims

          All of the attention devoted to healthcare reform by the entire field of Presidential candidates reveals little mention of the need for medical malpractice reform.  Yet is there any…

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Why ADR Works In Healthcare, Reason #3

October 28, 2007 | Archived, Healthcare Arbitration, Healthcare Mediation, Hospitals, Physicians and Medical Staffs, Managed Care Payment and Coverage Issues

          Completing the thought addressed in the two previous posts, there is a third reason why ADR works well in resolving healthcare industry disputes. [Image: “Smeden og bageren”. Illustration by…

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Why ADR Works In Healthcare, Reason #2

October 27, 2007 | Archived, Healthcare Arbitration, Healthcare Mediation, Hospitals, Physicians and Medical Staffs

          Continuing the thread started in my last post, there are several reasons why ADR works especially well in the healthcare industry.  [Image: Photo of Coins in the Trevi Fountain…

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Why ADR Works In Healthcare, Reason #1

October 26, 2007 | Archived, Commercial Healthcare Disputes, End of Life and Treatment Decisions, Hospitals, Physicians and Medical Staffs, Managed Care Payment and Coverage Issues, Medical Malpractice Claims

          Alternative dispute resolution (or “ADR”) is increasingly being used to resolve conflicts arising in all facets of society.  The chief benefits of ADR (cost savings, faster results, confidentiality, and…

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