Want Lower Healthcare Costs? Consider Medical Liability Reform
Guest post written on behalf of the Council of State Neurosurgical Societies’ (CSNS) Communications and Education Committee Maya A. Babu, MD, MBA (left) Neurosurgical Resident, Mayo Clinic Vice-Chair, CSNS Communications and Education Committee Rochester, MN Brian V. Nahed, MD, MSC (right) Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School Chair, CSNS Communications […]
California’s MICRA is Under Attack
California’s Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, or MICRA, is under attack this fall with a very disingenuous ballot initiative that professes to address issues related to impaired physicians, but is actually an effort to gut the state’s successful medical liability reform law. Proposition 46 would, among other things, increase MICRA’s cap on non-economic damages from […]