HEALTHCARE NEUTRALTM BLOG

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

Happy New Year! NAF Notes Important Healthcare ADR Cases of 2007

                                          [Image: “Happy New Year To You”, a 1908 postcard with artwork showing a frog holding a bottle of champagne with the cork popping.]             Happy New Year!  I…

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Mediators Can Attend Christmas Parties

                         [Image: Gracie Fields, accompanied by an RAF orchestra, entertains airmen at their Christmas party, December 27, 1939.  Photo by Royal Air Force official photographer, Mr. H. Hensser.]…

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Bringing Medicare To The Settlement Table Is Not So Easy

                                    [Image: Br\’er Rabbit at the table from Uncle Remus, His songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, by Joel…

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Presenting Your Case In Mediation – Using The Fear Of Risk

                           [Image: Screen capture from the film Carnival of Souls.]           Thank you to Geoff Sharp for alerting me to the article by jury consultant Bob Gerchen entitled “How…

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Read The Fine Print: What Does Your Managed Care Agreement Say About ADR?

                    [Image: Sumerian contract: selling of a field and a house. Shuruppak, ca. 2600 BC, pre-cuneiform script.]           I just ran across a post by Robin Fisk on her…

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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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