HEALTHCARE NEUTRAL^TM BLOG

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…

                 [Image: “Trenton Makes –  The World Takes,” by Bob Jagendorf, July 4, 2005]        Although this blog aims to cover “the intersection of alternative dispute resolution and healthcare…

               [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,”…

          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;…

         [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…

                        [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.]                                                                                                                                                                                                             …