Doctors Try Labor Tactics in Bid to Cut Insurance Cost
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Doctors around the country are increasingly using methods popularized by labor unions to gain leverage in their fight against rising premiums for malpractice coverage.
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By coordinating care and keeping their patients out of the hospital, doctors can help reduce overall health care spending, Medicare officials said.
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The political battle in Maryland to limit medical malpractice lawsuits is also underway in Virginia and the District, where doctors and hospitals are pressing for greater restrictions on who can sue for a medical mistake and how much can be collected.
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Medicare patients will likely have a harder time seeing a doctor if proposed cuts to the program are implemented, according to a survey of doctors released by the American Medical Association on Monday.
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California and New York City ponder making some employers pay for insurance - or help government do it.
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Makers of medical imaging equipment are lobbying to overturn Medicare cutbacks after weathering some of the worst sales numbers in recent memory.
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New York and Connecticut officials say they are investigating whether improper behavior by insurance firms has been a factor in the rapidly rising cost of malpractice insurance for lawyers and doctors.
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MUNICIPAL UNIONS should raise a holiday toast to gullible Massachusetts taxpayers for their willingness to absorb disproportionate pain from increases in health insurance costs. Bostonians, for example, sit by passively while city workers, who pay just 10 percent of premium costs for their HMO coverage, gobble up nearly half of the annual increase in the city's operating budget.
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Although most companies look at mental-health coverage as a drain on the budget, firms that provide this kind of help to their employees tend to save both time and money.
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As doctors voiced anger at an Annapolis rally yesterday over escalating insurance costs, legislative leaders said they remain far from a consensus on how to address the problem before Maryland physicians&#39; bills come due next month.
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For the second consecutive year, federal employees are getting a big break on their health insurance premiums.
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To cope with rising health care costs, companies are asking current retirees to pay more for health insurance and some are telling future retirees to do without, according to a study released yesterday.
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CAN WE possibly gather together around the healthcare table and find a way to offer low-cost health insurance and reduce the ranks of the uninsured?
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First they tried nudging. Now companies are penalizing workers who have high health risks such as obesity and high blood pressure or cholesterol as insurance costs climb.
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British heart doctors are fighting an effort to end government coverage for drug-coated heart stents.
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Doctors  and weather forecasters work together to cut hospital admissions for chest patients.
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The tug-of-war between labor and corporations on healthcare options continues to escalate.