Surgeon wins $1.6 million sex bias verdict
March 30, 2009
A federal jury has found that a prominent neurosurgeon and Brigham and Women’s Hospital subjected a female surgeon to a hostile work environment and then retaliated against her when she complained.
On Feb. 24 jurors awarded $1.6 million in damages to Dr. Sagun Tuli, 39, who had complained for several years about discriminatory treatment by Dr. Arthur Day, 61, chairman of Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s neurosurgery department. Read more
The SEIU’s latest tactic in organizing health care workers hits Beth Israel
February 1, 2009
During a recent fundraising event for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a flatbed truck pulled up out front carrying a mobile billboard inscribed with three-foot red letters – “Keep Your Eye on B.I.”
The billboard advertised a website of the same name, www.eyeonbi.org, that alleges serious problems with patient care and accounting practices at the hospital.
Doctors must prepare now for new identity theft rules
February 1, 2009
Under new federal “red flag” rules, health care entities and physicians will be required to implement procedures for preventing, detecting and responding to identity theft, according to attorneys.
Until recently, many entities, including health care providers, thought the red flag rules only applied to traditional financial institutions, such as banks.
Stopping disruptive physician behavior
October 17, 2008
Imagine a nurse being so intimidated by a condescending and abusive doctor that she decides not to contact him for an emergency while he’s on call.
Office compliance 101: A guide
June 13, 2008
In the midst of taking care of patients every day, doctors across Massachusetts are struggling to comply with an overwhelming number of constantly changing state and federal regulations.
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As other health care workers’ duties expand, so does physicians liability
June 12, 2008
From universal coverage and innovations in health information technology to growing physician shortages and soaring costs, Massachusetts finds its health care system stretched and strained.
Physicians in particular, at the center of the system, are being challenged in many ways – clinically, economically, politically and professionally.
New e-prescribing regulations are applauded by medical community
June 11, 2008
As part of the federal government’s ongoing push to make health care go paperless, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently adopted final standards for electronic prescribing under Part D, Medicare’s prescription drug benefit.
The legal pros and cons of e-prescribing
June 11, 2008
Though some physicians contend that the new standards for electronic prescribing from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) aren’t sufficiently comprehensive to spur an immediate groundswell of e-prescribing adoption, attorneys agree that implementation can carry substantial legal benefits.
Holding on to your prescription pad? Barriers to e-prescribing
June 11, 2008
As valuable as the newly adopted e-prescribing standards may be, there are still a number of hurdles that could act as barriers to widespread adoption of e-prescribing, practitioners say.
Doctors fight ‘unfair, offensive’ proposals from Board of Registration
June 11, 2008
On a warm Friday afternoon in April, doctors, lawyers and health care administrators gathered in the bunker-like lobby of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine to offer their testimony about proposed changes to the Board’s regulations.
The atmosphere was tense: A sign on the door warned against “disruptive behavior,” and next to the sign-in desk stood a uniformed guard. Read more
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