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Physician work helps halt insurance merger, preserve competition

Federal judge rules Aetna-Humana merger anticompetitive. Eighteen months of physician efforts provide compelling evidence for blocking the deal.

Access to Care
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Scope of practice should set limits on medical liability testimony

Can an advanced registered nurse practitioner provide medical causation testimony? The Supreme Court of Washington will decide.

Sustainability
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Jan. 12, 2017: Judicial Advocacy Update

Learn more about the AMA's role in cases about patient-psychiatrist confidentiality, interstate medical liability and more.

Advocacy Update
Patient has private conversation with psychiatrist.
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Patient-psychiatrist confidentiality hampered in liability ruling

Washington court rules psychiatrists responsible for alerting targets of patient violence, even without a clear indication that foul play will occur.

Sustainability
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Case threatens limit on interstate medical liability exposure

When a patient crosses state lines seeking treatment and then suffers complications or death, which state holds jurisdiction over the physician involved?

Sustainability
Best of 2016: How physician advocacy shaped health care in 2016
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How physician advocacy shaped health care in 2016

The physician voice was heard, leaving its mark on changes to the health care system and protecting patients this year.

Judicial Advocacy
Best of 2016: Litigation
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Litigation: These court cases got readers’ attention

Notable litigation this year involved tussles over expert testimony, clinical judgment, informed consent and exam-room censorship.

Judicial Advocacy
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Judgment on life expectancy at issue in Medicare fraud case

The case concerns qualifying a patient’s care under the Medicare hospice benefit. At issue is a physicians’ ability to exercise their clinical judgment in certifying a patient’s life expectancy is less than six months.

Medicare & Medicaid
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Error-reporting confidentiality threatened in court

Confidential, protected peer-review mechanisms for reporting medical errors are at issue in a case before the Iowa Supreme Court. The state’s Morbidity and Mortality Study Law is being reviewed.

Judicial Advocacy