June 2004

06/25/2004 A.M. Best Downgrades OHIC and parent company MLMIC
06/25/2004 Holly Saelens Named Deputy Director of Insurance Department
06/25/2004 Medical Malpractice Crisis Hurting Doctor Recruiting in Ohio
06/25/2004 Managed Care Companies Win in U.S. Supreme Court
06/25/2004 CDC Posts Training Modules Online for Dealing with Biological Agents
06/25/2004 Most Doctors Don't E-mail Patients
06/25/2004  Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Seeks Performance Measures for Staffing Certification Program
06/25/2004 American Hospital Association (AHA) Encourages Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to Collaborate with Providers to Establish National Provider Identifier
06/25/2004 State of Florida signs into law a bill to ban specialty hospitals
06/18/2004 GE Medical Protective is downgraded
06/18/2004 OIG posts audit report
06/18/2004 July 2004 Medicare Advisory for Ohio and West Virginia
06/18/2004 Many Doctors Might Go "Bare" - Malpractice surveys shows
06/18/2004 Palmetto GBA has posts updated HIPAA Vendor Listing
06/18/2004 GAO Finds Few Problems with Canadian Web Pharmacies
06/18/2004 Thirteen hospitals sued for alleged breach of charitable trust and other charges
06/11/2004 AMC/NOMA informational packets and Ohio Supreme Court fliers in the works
06/11/2004 Ohio Chamber of Commerce Endorses Moyer, O'Donnell and Lanzinger
06/11/2004 New Jersey Passes a Medical Liability Bill - without caps but with a premium assistance fund
06/11/2004 Medical Malpractice Payouts are on the Rise
06/11/2004 Illinois Legislators Reject a Medical Liability Reform Bill
06/11/2004 Senators Asking for a Change in the SGR Formula
06/11/2004 Congressman Sherrod Brown wants to enlist the support of Governor Taft for the import of lower cost prescription drugs from Canada
06/11/2004 California Assembly Approves Rx Web Site
06/11/2004 The Food and Drug Administration Denies Proposed Illinois Drug Importation Pilot Program
06/11/2004 Legislative Push for Electronic Health Records
06/11/2004 Ohio Supreme Court Votes to Reject Cincinnati Physicians' Request to Dismiss Insurance Companies' Appeal
06/11/2004 CDC Urges Immunization of MSM and Other High-Risk Populations against Hepatitis A and B
06/10/2004 Current legislative update from AMC/NOMA lobbyists(PDF 763k bytes)