Malpractice Risks for Docs Who Oversee NPs or PAs Malpractice Risks for Docs Who Oversee NPs or PAs
Even as states eliminate supervision requirements for advanced practice clinicians, physicians are often named in malpractice lawsuits when they employ or manage them.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - April 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Nursing News Source Type: news
The Unspoken Reason Why Many Doctors and Nurses Are Quitting
On a recent shift, I arrived to find our emergency department full and our waiting room overflowing with suffering patients. Half of our ER beds were occupied by “boarders”—patients who were ill enough to require hospital admission, but with no inpatient bed available for them in our hospital, or at any other in the state. These boarding patients included a seriously ill infant with respiratory distress from RSV, a moribund elderly woman on a ventilator, and a teenaged boy who had been held under security watch in the ER for three straight days, waiting for transfer to a psychiatric bed. In the hour after...
Source: TIME: Health - March 31, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dr. Gita Pensa Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news
Families ask why B.C. surgeon still allowed to see patients after string of negligence claims
Two recent rulings against Dr. Tracy Hicks follow a long series of malpractice allegations made in court throughout the orthopedic surgeon's career. (Source: CBC | Health)
Source: CBC | Health - March 30, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: News/Canada/British Columbia Source Type: news
HRSA: Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is modifying the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB), an existing system of records maintained by HRSA's Bureau of Health Workforce (BHW). The NPDB is a web-based repository of reports containing information on practitioner medical malpractice payments and certain adverse actions related to health care practitioners, providers, and suppliers. Modifications reflect changes in equipment configuration and hosting, limiting the System of Records Notice (SORN) descriptions more clearly to records about individuals, and formatting changes. Comments are due by April 24, 2...
Source: Federal Register updates via the Rural Assistance Center - March 24, 2023 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news
Sanders Signs Arkansas Trans Care Malpractice Bill Into Law
Legal experts have said the change could close access to gender-affirming care for children by making it nearly impossible for providers to get malpractice insurance. (Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care)
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - March 16, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Centre mulls regulations, stringent action against e-pharmacies amid concerns over data privacy, malpractices
The New Drugs, Medical Devices and Cosmetics Bill, 2023, seeks to replace the existing Drugs and Cosmetics Act of 1940. The draft bill which was put on the public domain in July last year seeking feedback from stakeholders contained a provision for taking permission to operate an e-pharmacy. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - March 13, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Arkansas House Sends Governor Trans Care Malpractice Bill
The governor's office said she backs the bill, which would make it easier to sue doctors who provide gender-affirming treatment to minors. (Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care)
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - March 9, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Arkansas House sends governor trans care malpractice bill
Arkansas lawmakers have sent the Republican governor a bill that would make it easier to sue doctors who provide gender-affirming care to minors (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - March 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Does Giving a Patient a $75 Gift Card to Send in a Clinical Laboratory Test Specimen Violate Federal Fraud Laws? A Whistleblower Lawsuit Argues ‘Yes!’
Novel scheme by medical laboratory company to induce patients to collect and return their own specimen for testing is central to a federal whistleblower case alleging violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute Handing out gift cards only to patients who return a specimen to a clinical laboratory company for colorectal cancer screening is a unique approach […]
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Source: Dark Daily - March 6, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Compliance, Legal, and Malpractice Laboratory News Laboratory Testing Molecular Diagnostics, Genetic Testing, Whole Gene Sequencing AKS anatomic pathology Anti-kickback Statute Brian Boynton clinical laboratory Cologuard COSMOS Dark Source Type: news
Congress Holds Off on Enabling FDA Regulation of Clinical Laboratory-Developed Tests
Supporters of the VALID Act say lobbying blitz by academic medical centers prevented its passage In 2022, a bill before Congress titled the Verifying Accurate Leading-Edge IVCT Development Act (VALID Act) sought to change the current regulatory scheme for clinical laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) and in vitro clinical tests (IVCTs). But even though the College of […]
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Source: Dark Daily - February 27, 2023 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Compliance, Legal, and Malpractice Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Resources Laboratory Sales and Marketing Laboratory Testing AACC AAMC AdvaMed American Association for Clinical Chemistry American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Source Type: news
Utah Doc Sexually Assaults 94 Women; Judge Calls it Healthcare Utah Doc Sexually Assaults 94 Women; Judge Calls it Healthcare
When dozens of women sued their OB-GYN for sexual assault, a judge said the case falls under the state ' s medical malpractice law. As the women appeal, lawmakers ask whether that law should be changed.ProPublica (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines)
Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines - February 22, 2023 Category: Primary Care Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health News Source Type: news
Utah Doc Allegedly Assaults 94 Women; Judge Calls It Healthcare Utah Doc Allegedly Assaults 94 Women; Judge Calls It Healthcare
When dozens of women sued their OB-GYN for sexual assault, a judge said the case falls under the state ' s medical malpractice law. As the women appeal, lawmakers ask whether that law should be changed.ProPublica (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - February 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Ob/Gyn & Women ' s Health News Source Type: news
One Paid Malpractice Claim Makes Another More Likely: Study One Paid Malpractice Claim Makes Another More Likely: Study
A new JAMA study suggests that physicians with a single paid medical malpractice claim are much more likely to experience a future paid claim, which could affect licensure and staffing privileges.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - February 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Internal Medicine News Source Type: news
Med Check' Appointments: How to Minimize Your Malpractice Risk Med Check' Appointments: How to Minimize Your Malpractice Risk
What factors should be considered for reducing the risk of malpractice related to brief"med checks"--short follow-up appointments for psychiatric outpatient medication management?Current Psychiatry (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - February 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Psychiatry Journal Article Source Type: news
Former NFL Pro Chris Maragos Wins $43.5 Million Malpractice Claim Former NFL Pro Chris Maragos Wins $43.5 Million Malpractice Claim
Jury ' s decision may prompt medical professionals to think twice before allowing injured athletes to return to the playing field, legal team says.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - February 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Orthopaedics News Source Type: news
