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Politics of health care with emphasis on California legislation including workers compensation and utilization review and federal legislation in Washington, DC

Monday, September 19, 2011

AB 655 (HAYASHI): IZZIT PEER REVIEW REFORM OR HYPOCRISY?

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AB 655 (Hayashi) passed the legislature without a dissenting vote. Its alleged purpose, to facilitate transfer of peer review information fr...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

SENATE BILL 923 (DELEON) BITES THE DUST WHILE ASSEMBLY BILL 584 (FONG) SOARS!

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SB 923 (Deleon) In our last post we said this bill needed to be thrashed before it got trashed. It got both. The thrashing and trashing we...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

SB 923 (DELEON): WHO ACTUALLY BENEFITS? THIS BILL DESERVES A SOUND THRASHING BEFORE IT'S TRASHED.

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SB 923 (DELEON) if passed into law will require the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers Compensation to adopt the Medicare fe...
Friday, August 26, 2011

CMA DECLARES "NO CONTROVERSY" RE EL-ATTAR PEER REVIEW CASE!

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In response to a query from The Alliance for Patient Safety posed by Gil Mileikowsky, MD, a question indicating that there was "confusi...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

AB 655 (Hayashi) versus Osamah A. El-Attar v. Hollywood Presbyterian Med Ctr

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"Allowing the Governing Board to select the hearing officer and JRC panel is not an inconsequential violation of the Bylaws. Rather, it...
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Monday, August 22, 2011

HOW TO PROMOTE SHAM PEER REVIEW WITHOUT EVEN TRYING

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AB 655 (Hayashi) is supposed to be about improving peer review in our hospitals. It's supposed to be about protecting patients. The inte...
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Monday, August 8, 2011

SHAM PEER REVIEW

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Sham peer review in healthcare occurs when a peer review process in a hospital, foundation, or other medical organization accepts false or ...
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Writing in Neurology Today, Vol. 3 (8), August 2003, Dawn Antoline writes "Robert L. Weinmann, MD, has never been one to shy away from controversy. Whether he is writing muckraking editorials about HMOs that deny physician claims or ... billing practices ... he has committed himself to a life of activism. At the heart of his advocacy is a passionate regard for his patients -- and the ability of physicians to provide unfettered optimal care."
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