Health spending Real change in spending per enrollee for physicians services. Despite the private sector's much-ballyhooed success in restraining health costs, Medicare has kept a tighter rein on physician spending per enrollee over the past decade. But pitfalls also exist in single specialty networks that doctors need to avoid. A little-used legal doctrine could give doctors new means to challenge hospital employment and managed care contracts, thanks to an April 12 Illinois appeals court ruling. The state's fourth district appellate court found that a surgeon wasn't bound by his hospital employment contract because it violated the state's 1923 corporate practice of medicine law.
Blues launch new pediatric cancer network.
The initiative creates a pediatric cancer network with 180 participating treatment centers, which includes many of the best-known pediatric cancer specialists and institutions in the nation. Back to top. The Supreme Court will decide whether federal law protects medical device manufacturers from some state liability suits. Plaintiffs in Lohr v. Medtronic, Inc. claimed they were harmed by faulty cardiac pace makers. The company says the Medical Device Amendments of 1976 indemnify device makers from state liability claims in exchange for compliance with FDA regulations.