{"title":"Alternative dispute resolution and the physician--the use of mediation to resolve hospital-medical staff conflicts.","authors":"J L Hall, R A Stong","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The use of adversarial methods to resolve disputes arising out of medical staff matters can be time-consuming, costly, and disruptive to the hospital-medical staff relationship. As this article suggests, mediation is the preferred method of alternative dispute resolution for reaching mutually acceptable solutions with minimal harm to relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"7 2","pages":"1-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20995673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structuring group medical practices: labor and employment issues.","authors":"J M Vecchioli, A S Gassman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article is the third in a series addressing the general representation factors involved in structuring group medical practices. In this article, selected labor and employment issues frequently encountered by counsel and managers of group medical practices are reviewed, and the impact of various legal restrictions--including the Americans with Disabilities Act--is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"7 1","pages":"19-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21043347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antitrust pitfalls in outpatient services.","authors":"J E Hartley, W J Corwin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Increasingly, services traditionally provided to inpatients are moving to the outpatient setting, resulting in greater antitrust risk. Antitrust issues are most likely to arise when a hospital with a large share of the inpatient market attempts to increase outpatient volume by restricting their patients' choices of outpatient providers, or when providers who control scarce outpatient resources attempt to restrict competition by denying other providers access to a facility. This trend has affected physicians both as competitors of hospitals in the outpatient services market and as participants with hospitals in ventures for the provision of outpatient care.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"7 1","pages":"53-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20995229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Is there any reason not to participate in Medicare\"?","authors":"A R Chenen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"7 2","pages":"69-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20995682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical staff contracting: contract terms and the negotiation process.","authors":"N B Caesar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article--the second in a series analyzing the physician-hospital contracting process from the physician's perspective--addresses negotiation of specific contract terms, including such controversial issues as exclusive contracts, mandatory managed care arrangements, and tie-in of contract terms and medical staff privileges. Also discussed are the goals and expectations of physicians and hospitals during the contracting process.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"7 2","pages":"9-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20995683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Principles for the release of physician-specific health care data: balancing the interests of patients and physicians.","authors":"N A Baker, R D Otten","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many state health departments and other agencies have become involved in the collection and analysis of physician-specific health care data. Two states--New York and Pennsylvania--have released surgeon-specific data on the results of coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and the Health Care Financing Administration is considering the release of physician-specific health care data. This article discusses those developments and presents suggested guidelines for the collection, use, and release of physician-specific data.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"7 3","pages":"27-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20998145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Medical staff contracting: legal issues in physician-hospital arrangements.","authors":"N B Caesar","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article--the third in a series analyzing the physician-hospital contracting process from the physician's perspective--addresses the legal issues involved in physician-hospital arrangements, including those arising under federal and state illegal remuneration, antitrust, and tax laws. New applications of these issues to physician-hospital organizations and practice management/practice acquisitions by hospitals are also addressed, as well as other recent hospital efforts to maximize the benefits to be gained from the physician-hospital relationship.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"7 4","pages":"39-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20999023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"United States v. Levin: entrapment by estoppel doctrine applied in Medicare reimbursement context.","authors":"P W Shaw, R A Griffith","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The decision in Levin reaffirms that health care providers should be entitled to rely in good faith on official interpretations and representations by authorized government officials as to the propriety of their conduct under the Medicare program. Although the doctrine of entrapment by estoppel was developed as a due process defense to a criminal prosecution, the fundamental notions of fairness underlying the doctrine should be applicable as well as in a civil action. Thus, the defense of entrapment by estoppel should be available, for example, in the context of civil health care reimbursement recoupment audits, where a provider has acted in reliance on the interpretation of a statute or regulation by the appropriate administrative agency charged with its enforcement.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"7 4","pages":"55-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21055433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bartley v. Eastern Maine Medical Center: cost containment prevails over physicians' rights!","authors":"A R Chenen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"7 3","pages":"67-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21055617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The evolution of medical staff credentialing.","authors":"M J Baxter, M Hornback","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As medicine has developed more and more into a business, the process of medical staff credentialing has evolved. Today, physicians need to be affiliated with a hospital or other health care entity in order to practice. Health care entities, in turn, must be able to ensure quality of care and efficiency. The mechanisms that have developed to achieve these purposes comprise the process of medical staff credentialing as it now exists and will shape the continued evolution of credentialing in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"7 1","pages":"33-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20994268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}