We've all reviewed medical charts of patients who have had cardiac enzymes drawn. These studies are frequently drawn when physicians are evaluating whether a patient has suffered a heart attack. Here is a helpful explanation of cardiac ...

Medical Billing Control with Computer Aided Coding
For example, some payers require medical notes attached to some CPT codes in addition to standard ICD-9 codes. ... According to the Healthcare Financial Management Association s Tip Sheet: Medical Claims Denial Management, the average ...

Jury awards $6 million in wrongful death lawsuit
The family of a man who was killed when his lawnmower unexpectedly exploded was recently awarded $6 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. The riding lawnmower exploded while the 36 year-old victim was cutting grass at his father s ...

Briley s judiciary spot clashes against GOP s tort reform push
Rob Briley was named chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Thursday, which puts the Nashville Democrat on a direct collision course with energized Republicans in the state Senate over the issue of medical malpractice reform. ...

Public Citizen: Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Not the Cause of ...
WASHINGTON, DC Despite claims by business and medical lobbying interests and the Bush administration, there is no medical malpractice lawsuit crisis in America, according to analysis released today by Public Citizen. ...

Senior Medical Malpractice Executive Underwriting Officer ($725 ...
Senior Medical Malpractice Executive Underwriting Officer $725 Referral Reward Southwest Jan 12, 2007.

White Coats Outside the Capitol on Night of the State of the State ...
Hopefully malpractice expenses can be kept down and doctor-patient time increased. And the white coats will be back. Just next week ~250 medical students from California will come to the capitol demanding reform, simply demanding that ...

Hospital groups wary of cuts outline possible reforms The Journal ...
...when the Republicans try to maneuver their medical malpractice reforms through the state House, they will run into Briley (D-Nashville), a trial lawyer that was appointed as chair of the House Judiciary Committee. ...

Should Muslims have
Jury Verdict Research, a database of plaintiff and defense verdicts, says awards in medical liability casesincreased 43 percent in 1999, from $700000 to $1000000. Jury awards in medical malpractice claims jumped 43 percent in one ...

When malpractice attorneys turn up dead
Berman s main character who, Berman insists, is not his alter ego -- is a mysterious surgeon who is tired of attorneys who relentlessly pursue medical malpractice lawsuits against doctors who have done nothing wrong. ...