Many in the healthcare community are celebrating today. Yesterday, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015 (H.R.2), thus staving off a 21% decrease in Medicare reimbursement rates set to take effect today, April 15th. But this bill is different than what we’ve seen in the past,
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Tort Reform Update – Missouri Malpractice Damages Cap to be Reinstated?
While we’ve seen many states lose caps on non-economic damages to judicial review in recent years, Missouri is now one step closer to reinstating them. From 2005 to 2012 Missouri had a cap of $350,000 on non-economic damages (i.e. pain and suffering) in medical malpractice cases. However, in 2012 that cap was deemed to be
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