Critical condition
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Charges of Medicare fraud, office break-ins, political corruption, mismanagement and criminal probes have the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) in a critical situation. Significant changes are needed to improve the situation in UMDNJ and all university executives must undergo mandatory ethics training by the state, including lessons on ethics law and policy, contracts and bidding, record-keeping and conflicts of interest.
Publication Name: New Jersey Monthly
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0273-270X
Year: 2005
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The doctor drain
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The rising cost of medical malpractice liability insurance and low reimbursements surgeons receive in the era of managed care lead to an exodus of New Jersey doctors. Doctors, who are slightly helped by a compromise measure signed into law in 2004, would like the state legislature to form a task force of hospital representatives, physicians, insurers and lawyers to address the difficulty facing the medical community.
Publication Name: New Jersey Monthly
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0273-270X
Year: 2005
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Looking for a cure
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Physicians in New Jersey are greatly affected by malpractice complaints by which they are charged a high malpractice insurance premium. Though a new law which is enacted by the state Legislature in 2004 to reform healthcare and malpractice helps doctors, it excludes a key provision that would have placed a cap on the pain-and-suffering portion of awards, representing nearly two-thirds of a malpractice settlement.
Publication Name: New Jersey Monthly
Subject: Travel, recreation and leisure
ISSN: 0273-270X
Year: 2005
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