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Category Archives: Medical Malpractice
Nursing Home Lawsuit Reform Passes Florida Senate Committee
We don’t need more lawsuit reform, we need nursing home reform. It seems that every time I turn around, there are more restrictions being placed on the right of residents and family members of nursing homes. And here’s the thing, for all of the people who support tort reform, it sounds like a good idea until you or your family member is the one injured and can’t recover because of various statutory limitations. South Carolina has a requirement that in order to bring a medical malpractice suit, including one against a nursing home, you have to hire an independent medical expert to say that there was a violation of the standard of care. One of the problems with this is that the Plaintiffs aren’t in the same position to know exactly what happened as the Defendants are. They have all the records, they have all the incident reports, they have…
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Life Care Centers and Excess Billing
CBS This Morning ran a story the other morning about excess Medicare billing by one of the largest nursing home chains in the country. It appears that the facilities are billing at the highest reimbursement rates for services that are not necessary. To be fair, I find it interesting that this seems to shocking to other people, because I think it goes on every day in all sorts of facilities not just nursing homes. But it is a good video clip, click on link below. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57583404/medicare-fraud-allegations-national-nursing-home-chain-accused-of-billing-for-excess-care/
As Number of Robots and Surgeries Increase in American Hospitals, So Do Problems
The Associated Press reported that nearly 1,400 hospitals in the United States have at least one da Vinci system, a three- or four-armed robot that surgeons operate with hand controls at a computer system located several feet away from a patient. Each da Vinci system costs about $1.45 million in addition to $100,000 or more a year in service agreements, and it is used for operations that include removing prostates, gallbladders and wombs, repairing heart valves, shrinking stomachs and transplanting organs, according to the AP. However, Bloomberg News reported that Sunnyvale, California-based Intuitive Surgical Inc., the company whose robots were used in 367,000 operations last year, is in the middle of the first trial of at least 26 lawsuits from people alleging injuries tied to its da Vinci system. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is looking into an increase in reported problems during robotic surgeries, including at least…
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