Product DescriptionThis digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), followed by Thomson Gale on 6 Published in October 2005. Length of the article is 581 words. The length of the page above on a 300-words-type side. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon. com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: High Court sides with LTD in tax matters, the case against the hospital. (Courts) (Peace Health is an employer and therefore liable for payroll taxes on the verdict) Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper) Date: 6 October 2005Publisher: Thomson Gale Page: B1Distributed by Thomson Gale
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High Court sides with LTD in tax case against the hospital.
Friday, August 20th, 2010High Doctor Fees Have More People Searching Net for Doctor
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010Today, with all the problems of the American economy more and more people are finding that they cannot get good jobs that have good medical insurance. They are also finding that many bosses will not give them time off when they need it unless they have a doctors note. If they have a job where missing work means bring a doctor note, and they also do not have medical insurance, then they may also have the problem that getting written doctors excuses could cost them more than a day?s pay. Unfortunately, the place where they work does not seem to think this through. It is just one of those policies that defies logic. It is actually the poor employee who is suffering here. The person is sick, he better have a slip from his doctor that says he was a patient for the day or he loses his job. Now think if the fellow is sick, and he couldn?t get to his regular doctor, to save his job, he will have to get a hospital doctors excuse. That could end up costing him a whole week worth of pay. This is truly a problem. He needs something that looks like a real authentic doctors excuse, but he can?t afford to get one. This is why you will see people looking for fake doctors sick notes on the net. Understand, the fellow probably really is sick. He probably really does need to visit his doctor, but he can?t afford it. He doesn?t have a simple solution, and he knows as well that even though he might feel better faster if he does go to the clinic, he just can?t spend his money to do it. So instead he goes online and he looks at various samples and examples of fake doctors notes that he can download, print out and use over and over because he can make copies of them. This is a much cheaper solution for him than going to get the authentic form from the doctor to release him. He can just download a fake doctor note template, fill it in and take it to his boss. Because the template is printable and comes as a form where he just has to fill in the blank it is very easy for him to do. It is very sad that there are some people who are this unfortunate. But these days, there are just so many people who are under great financial stress. This is also true for students in school who may not have the money to consult a doctor.. As a result, these people have found that the printable doctor’s notes really can save money. It is really sad when you realize that so often the person is truly sick. He just has no way to do what his boss or instructor demands because of his finances. He feels that the only way to solve the problem is through the online and printable doctor?s note.
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High court sides with LTD in tax case against hospital.
Friday, April 9th, 2010Product Description
This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by Thomson Gale on October 6, 2005. The length of the article is 581 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Citation Details
Title: High court sides with LTD in tax case against hospital.(Courts)(PeaceHealth is an employer and thus liable for payroll fees, according to the ruling)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: October 6, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Page: B1
Distributed by Thomson Gale
No win no fee not to blame for high medical negligence costs
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010It was recently revealed that botched treatments in Yorkshire’s hospitals and health centres cost the taxpayer at least £83m in only one year. This is the same story across the UK. Although many are quick to blame ‘greedy’ no win no fee lawyers, it seems there is a lot more behind the high cost to the NHS.
Many of the compensation payments are thought to relate to clinical negligence claims made years previously, which have only been settled after lengthy battles in the courts. With no win no fee arrangements it is now easier than ever to make a claim against a hospital for substandard treatment.
Now, with Yorkshires health bodies receiving nearly 1,000 claims a year, patient care campaigners are calling for the system to be overhauled to help ensure claimants are compensated sooner and less money is spent on legal costs.
One top clinical negligence lawyer has said the amount paid to law firms involved in major cases was “a tiny figure” compared to the billions of pounds the NHS loses annually through less serious procedural errors.
Once a claim is settled, cash is paid centrally by the NHSLA, meaning it does not come out of a health body’s budget. The health body is required to make a contribution every year based on estimation made by the NHSLA, so essentially as the amount of compensation paid rises the estimations will continue to rise also.
The British Medical Association has called for the introduction of a new compensation system that apportions no blame and sets limits on the size of damages. “It is important that patients have a right to make their complaints and, where appropriate, receive compensation,” a spokesman said.
“However, the current system is cumbersome and expensive and takes money away from direct patient care. Without action to address this problem the alternative is that doctors will increasingly practise defensive medicine and hold back on some treatments for fear of legal action. This would not be in the best interests of the patient,” he added.
Yorkshire’s health body received nearly one thousand claims last year and many of these are expected to take years to settle. With the rising cost of legal fees this could well mean that the cost to health bodies will increase.
Peter Walsh, of patients’ charity Action Against Medical Accidents, said: “the value of settlements had soared in recent years because more patients were surviving but then relying on costly around-the-clock care.”
He added that: “Government measures had made it harder for people to qualify for legal aid, forcing them to bring no win no fee cases which are more costly to the NHS when settled in the claimant’s favour.”
“None of these costs would be incurred at all if we avoided the mistakes from happening in the first place,” Mr Walsh said. The biggest cost is not the financial cost; it is the human cost underlying every claim.”
He called for the Government to press ahead with schemes it promised in the NHS Redress Act 2006, which was designed to promote an alternative to litigation in clinical negligence cases.
It seems that Yorkshire is mirroring the rest of the country with high claims which are naively being put down to a growing compensation culture made worse by unscrupulous no win no fee lawyers. The unfortunate truth is little is being done to speed up the claims process, nor stopping the mistake being made in the first place. So if nothing is done the annual bill for claims is just going to get bigger and bigger until something is done about it.
The High Costs Of Being Uninsured
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Health Insurance has become one of the biggest monthly expenses for most people in this country. The problem has become so big, that many people are forced to go without health insurance because they cannot afford it. That, in turn, has created a larger societal problem due to increased emergency care costs and unreimbursed coverage at medical facilities. Today, there are literally millions of ordinary people who are living without medical insurance.
There are many reasons people go without health insurance. Many are not necessarily poor, but the costs have risen so drastically that even employed people may not be able to afford basic health coverage. This is particularly true for those who do not have higher education or work part-time jobs where no health insurance is offered by their employer.
People who cannot get insurance through their employer have to look to other means of getting health insurance, most likely through an independent insurance company. In many cases, this type of insurance can turn out to be more expensive than they can afford, depending on age, medical history, and other risk factors. Consequently, many of these people and their families are forced to go without health coverage.
It is not out of the ordinary for health insurance premiums to run several hundred dollars a month for full family coverage. For most people, this represents a fairly large percentage of the monthly income for that family. This forces the family to choose between meeting other basic living expenses and health insurance coverage. When a choice has to be made between rent or groceries and health insurance, it’s pretty easy to see which will win out, particularly if there are no current health problems in the family.
Without health insurance coverage, many people resort to using the emergency room as their doctor’s office. In this country, community hospitals must accept patients without insurance. All that is necessary is a promise to pay the bill when it comes due. All too often, this does not happen because the patient is simply unable to meet the obligation.
Because there are so many unpaid bills, hospitals are generally forced to raise their fees to offset these costs. These increased fees are then passed on to patients that do have insurance. Most insurance companies will only pay a certain percentage of a hospital stay, while the rest of the bill is passed on to the patient to pay out of pocket. So, even after the insurance company pays their portion of the bill, the insured patient may have a substantial amount of money to pay out of pocket.
People without health insurance often wait until it is absolutely necessary to begin treatment of a health condition. This often results in longer and more costly treatment than would have otherwise been required if the same patient had had access to medical treatment earlier. Again, lack of basic health insurance coverage has caused the cost of medical treatment to be higher than it should, which in turn raises the cost of health coverage for everyone.
Not having health insurance ultimately costs more than it would to have procured the insurance in the first place. For the individual, it usually results in longer, more serious medical conditions, higher out of pocket costs, and sometimes death due to lack of treatment. For society, lack of insurance results in higher costs for everyone. There is no doubt that something needs to be done to ensure people have access to high quality health care in a way that is affordable.
