{"title":"Medical malpractice environment in the 1990s.","authors":"J E Ludlam","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"6 3","pages":"81-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20991521","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":"Physician payment reform: how will medical specialties fare under the new Medicare fee schedule?","authors":"E R Becker, E K Adams, N S Fleming","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1989, the federal government legislated a major overhaul of the Medicare payment system for physician services, to be implemented beginning in January 1992. Under the new plan, payments will be set according to a national fee schedule based primarily on a \"resource-based relative value scale.\" This article summarizes the development of the new payment system and explores the likely impact of its implementation on medical and surgical specialties.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"6 1","pages":"1-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20987382","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 privileges and the antitrust laws: does the Intracorporate Conspiracy Doctrine apply?","authors":"A G Meghrigian","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The occasional imposition of antitrust liability on medical staff members for actions involving peer review is not a sufficient reason to abandon medical staff participation in the peer review process. This article reviews some of the case law in which the applicability of the intracorporate conspiracy doctrine to medical staff peer review activity has been decided and explains why appropriate medical staff involvement in such activity does not raise the risk of antitrust liability.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"6 2","pages":"9-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20988421","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 privileges and the antitrust laws: a view from the Federal Trade Commission.","authors":"M J Horoschak","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article describes the types of medical staff credentialing and peer review activities that invite the scrutiny of the Federal Trade Commission. To avoid antitrust problems, medical staffs and their members are advised to offer recommendations based on specific quality-of-care concerns. Antitrust problems will arise, however, if the medical staff or its members engage in collective activities that involve threats or coercion directed at the hospital's governing board or that are calculated solely to exclude an entire class of potential competitors.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"6 2","pages":"17-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20988591","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 Fourth PRO Scope of Work: automating the medical review process through the Uniform Clinical Data Set.","authors":"N A Baker","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With the advent of the Fourth Scope of Work, peer review organizations are beginning to implement the Uniform Clinical Data Set, an automated medical review system designed to collect standardized data from Medicare medical records and provide a data base to determine the most effective treatment for a given illness or disease. In this article, the author discusses the Health Care Financing Administration's development of the Uniform Clinical Data Set and its proposed application within the context of the Health Care Quality Improvement Initiative and the Fourth Scope of Work.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"6 3","pages":"11-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20991513","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: tax planning aspects.","authors":"A S Gassman, T F Conetta","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article is the first in a series addressing the structuring of group medical practice entities, shareholder relationships, and general representation factors. In this article, a general background in federal tax planning is provided, including strategies for minimization of income tax payment and the potential problems that may be encountered when a group practice is not carefully structured.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"6 3","pages":"47-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20991517","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":"Lewisburg Community Hospital v. Alfredson: does restriction of privileges without due process violate medical staff bylaws?","authors":"A R Chenen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"6 2","pages":"57-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21055590","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":"Avoiding malpractice claims for lack of informed consent.","authors":"B D Hirsh","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While malpractice claims alleging lack of informed consent are proliferating, the courts are requiring more detailed information regarding the risks of proposed treatment. Increased use of consent forms and brochures designed to provide comprehensive, objective information for specific procedures could help physicians avoid most of these types of claims.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"6 3","pages":"57-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20991518","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":"Economic credentialing and the fraud and abuse caveat.","authors":"K Benesch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Courts often uphold hospital credentialing decisions based in part on economic criteria. Nonetheless, as this article discusses, arrangements where medical staff privileges or other benefits appear to be offered to physicians as an incentive to refer patients may be suspect under the Medicare/Medicaid fraud and abuse law.</p>","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"6 4","pages":"27-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20994493","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":"Florida's experiment in health care regulation: the Patient Self-Referral Act of 1992.","authors":"D B Weinbren, A S Gassman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79747,"journal":{"name":"The Medical staff counselor","volume":"6 4","pages":"55-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20994496","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}