CHT Monthly Member Teleconference

Health Justice Reform Should Be Addressed in Comprehensive Health Reform Proposals

Date:  July 14, 2009

Time:  2:00 PM Eastern

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The Center for Health Transformation recently created six specific recommendations which advance patient safety; establish accountability and encourage disclosure of adverse medical events; incentivize the adoption and use of best practices and standards of health delivery; establish conflict resolution at a lower cost; and ensure that legitimately injured patients receive a larger share of the total settlement than their personal injury attorney. The six specific policy recommendations are:

1. Developing uniform standards for expert witnesses;
2. Creating specialized health courts;
3. Abolishing the antiquated collateral source rule;
4. Advancing evidence-based medicine (EBM) as the standard of care for physicians;
5. Allowing physicians and healthcare professionals to apologize for bad outcomes without implication (The "I’m Sorry" Law); and,
6. Placing appropriate limits on non economic (pain and suffering) damages.

We invite members to join the CHT July Monthly Conference Call which will focus on these recommendations and the process of health justice transformation as part of comprehensive health reform. Special guest speakers will be:

• Congressman Tom Price, MD, Chairman U.S. House Republican Study Committee
• Jeff Segal, MD, President & CEO of Medical Justice Services, Inc.
• John Gill, MD, of Dallas Sport Medicine and a physician leader in the successful passage of tort reform legislation in Texas.