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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Healthcare Self-Disclosure – “I’m Sorry” Revisited

     I just read an excellent article on the decision process for in-house corporate counsel considering self-disclosure of a regulatory infraction.  Richard Marshall\’s piece in Corporate Counsel, aptly titled “Uuuhhh,…

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Will Healthcare Reform Spread The Wealth To Primary Care?

                      Yesterday\’s Wall Street Journal Health Blog had a post by Jacob Goldstein on the potential struggle brewing between primary care physicians and specialist physicians over the need…

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Welcome Betsy Ryan’s Healthcare Matters Blog!

                              I recently learned that Betsy Ryan, the President and CEO of the New Jersey Hospital Association, has started a blog called “Healthcare Matters.”  It appears as part…

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