HEALTHCARE NEUTRALTM BLOG

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

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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Mediating The Healthcare Reform Debate

     Even before watching the bipartisan healthcare summit on February 25th, I began to think about how I would mediate the divide between the Obama/Reid/Pelosi reform proposal and the position…

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Pay Doctors Less And They Will Work Less

     Really?  A recent article in The Washington Post by Carla K. Johnson points out that doctors have steadily cut their work hours over the last decade, largely in response…

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Changes In Legal Practice And The Use Of ADR

       In case you haven\’t noticed, the law business – the way law is practiced – has been changing at a rate uncharacteristic of the profession. Financial pressure from the…

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Healthcare Neutral ADR Blog Now Featured At Mediate.com

     I\’m pleased to report that Mediate.com has included this blog in its list of Featured Blogs. Mediate.com is the leading website for “everything mediation.” Each week, managing editor John…

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Changes In Scope Of Healthcare Practice = Conflict, Too

     Earlier this week I wrote about the inevitability of conflict arising out of the leading ideas behind healthcare reform.  Restructuring healthcare payment systems to reward efficiency and quality rather…

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