By Richard B. Rubenstein, Esq., Rothenberg Rubenstein Berliner Shinrod LLC Stakeholders in the Workers’ Compensation community can proudly proclaim that our system was quite literally the first form of health insurance in America, preceding Blue Cross of the...
Do taxpayers shoulder a greater burden for healthcare in the U.S. than we generally assume? Debates over health care funding in the U.S. have flourished for decades, and arguments inevitably arise over how much of the health care bill should be picked up by...
Study suggests transparency in claims process produces favorable results According to a study recently published in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine [See Joshi, Anand B., MD, MHA, et al., “ Factors That Predict Satisfaction With Medical...
On October 1, 2015, the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) will become the standard classification system for all healthcare delivery in the United States, including group health, federal...
By John Stahl, Esq. The FDA website defines “pharmacy compounding” as “a practice in which a licensed pharmacist combines, mixes, or alters ingredients in response to a prescription to create a medication tailored to the medical needs of an...
By John Stahl, Esq. Concern regarding the relatively little public information about heavily utilized ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in California prompted the California HealthCare Foundation (Foundation) to research ownership statistics and other data regarding...
By John Stahl, Esq. A study that J. Paul Leigh, Ph.D. , and James P. Marcin, MD, MPH conducted addressed cost shifting that occurred when the workers’ compensation system did not absorb the entire cost of a compensable incident. They reported their findings in...