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

AHLA Offers Practical Toolkit For Managing Healthcare Conflicts

     Before you head off for the long Thanksgiving weekend, consider signing up for a teleconference to be held next Tuesday that you might otherwise miss in the post holiday…

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Stark IV Rules Create Traps For The Unwary – But Mediation Can Help

Fellow LexBlog powered blogger Todd Rodriguez, writing in the Physician Law blog, points out that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS“) recently made a number of substantial changes…

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Let Governing Boards, Not State, Decide Hospitals’ Fate

               [Image: Marionette puppet show for kids in Asbury Park,  NJ,  July 23, 2006,  by Jackie.]          I read an op-ed in yesterday\’s Courier News online entitled “New Jersey…

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Who Wants To Sell Their Hospital On The Auction Block?

                  [Image: Auctioneer and assistants, Cheviot, Ohio, 2004, by Rick Dikeman]                Less than three months ago, I wrote here (with reference to Boston\’s Carney Hospital) about…

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New Jersey Decision Throws Physician Owned Facilities Into Confusion

                   [Image: Confusion of Tongues, illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883)]           In a decision filed November 20, 2007, Judge Robert P. Contillo, sitting in the Superior Court, Chancery Division,…

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Financially Distressed Hospitals Need More Talk Less Walk

                           [Image: You talking to me? Photo by Ped Xing, Austin, Texas, 2005]           Writing in his HealthBlawg, David Harlow tells the tale of Boston\’s financially distressed Carney…

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