Success of Medical Review Panels Will Depend on Physician Involvement
Sen. Ralph Alvarado, M.D., has one message for physicians regarding the passage of legislation earlier this year that established the Medical Review Panel process in Kentucky: Be ready to serve if called upon.
“If you’re licensed in the state of Kentucky, you are in that pool” of potential panelists, Alvarado, R-Winchester, told attendees of the 2017 KMA Commissions Connection Saturday. Three physicians will be impaneled to review each malpractice case filed in Kentucky to determine the merits of the case before it can proceed to circuit court. Plaintiffs and defendants each pick a physician and then jointly choose a third, Alvarado said.
New Law Ensures Coverage of Tobacco Screening and Cessation
A new law passed in the final days of the 2017 legislative session will ensure patients who want to quit smoking will have access to treatments their physicians prescribe by expanding tobacco screening and cessation coverage to include all forms of tobacco cessation services recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
What makes a leader? Are leaders born or taught? Several studies have been done using past leaders in different types of situations to seek the answer to these questions. It seems there are a few areas of commonality within the different people studied.
Rep. Kim Moser, R-Taylor Mill, was installed as the 2017-18 president of the American Medical Association Alliance during the AMAA national meeting June 11–13 in Chicago. Moser is a past president of the Kentucky Medical Association Alliance and former chair of the Kentucky Physicians Political Action Committee, or KPPAC.
Program Helps Physicians See Needed Changes to Improve Patient Care
The Indiana University Kelley School of Business, a KMA Level 2 Corporate Affiliate, is helping educate physicians on the leadership and business skills needed to help improve the health care industry.
Physicians enrolled in the program are already seeing results. One helped save her hospital more than $800,000 and another helped cut wait time on a procedure at his clinic by 70 percent.
