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Facilities designer: Medicare is 'the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time'
America is falling victim to the "the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time," according to Marc Sauvé, senior healthcare strategist for Nashville, TN-based architecture firm Gresham, Smith and... Read more...
Reform may include malpractice changes
While many a medical malpractice reform has withered on the vine in recent years, a group of Democratic lawmakers and their trial lawyer backers seem determined to open up the issue again. In a... Read more...
NJ, PA hospital mistakes not being reported
While hospitals in Pennsylvania and New Jersey are supposed to be reporting serious mistakes, it appears that too often, they aren't doing so. That, at least, is the conclusion drawn by observers in... Read more...
RI creates patient-safety organization
Rhode Island has passed legislation creating a patient-safety organization whose job it is will be to reduce preventable medical errors in the state. The PSO, which will function under the state's... Read more...
Saying 'I'm sorry' grows more popular in med mal cases
Historically, in medical malpractice situations, attorneys have advised doctors and hospitals to deny that any medical error has been made--or even express any form of regret that a patient is... Read more...
WellPoint stops paying for never events
Health insurer WellPoint has taken a stand that most other U.S. insurers are likely to follow: It has announced that it, in coming months, will no longer pay for care resulting from serious medical... Read more...
Florida expands patient access to medical records
A Florida state Supreme Court decision has given patients access to medical error and incident reports prepared by providers, overturning legislation that had limited such access. As things stood in... Read more...
RI lawmakers propose medical error tracking system
Rhode Island lawmakers have introduced a bill that would create a system tracking medical mistakes and near misses, spurred in part by incidents in which brain surgeons at Rhode Island Hospital... Read more...
HHS proposes confidential medical error reporting
HHS has proposed a plan to allow hospitals and other providers to confidentially report patient safety breaches to HHS intermediaries. The proposed rule, which was required by the Patient Safety and... Read more...
Safety awareness is more powerful than it sounds
As some of you may know, the National Patient Safety Foundation has designated March 2 through March 8 as National Patient Safety Awareness Week. During... Read more...
