Acadia Professional New Advisory Board Acadia Professional, LLC (Acadia) announces the establishment of a Value Based Care Risk Advisory Board – the first of its kind in the United States. Advisory Board Members will counsel Acadia on the US healthcare...
Informed Consent vs. Medical Negligence The Iowa Supreme Court recently decided that it is a factual question under the informed consent doctrine as to whether surgeons need to disclose their experience to patients prior to performing surgeries. The Court...
How Blockchain Can Make Patients More Valuable In 2012, NFL Hall-of-Fame linebacker Junior Seau tragically committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest. He did so to preserve his brain so that his condition, chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), could...
Bundled Payment Models: How they are Driving Value-Based Care and the Need to Embrace Them The US healthcare reimbursement system has endured endless modifications in an effort to reduce its overall cost. As part of an ambitious shift from “volume to value,”...
Cross-Examining Watson: How to Sue a Robot An Appellate Court in NJ recently revisited the affidavit of merit statute, yet again, but this time with a twist. One question before the Court in Skounakis v. Sotillo was whether a physician was qualified to give an...
