Showdown or slowdown on patients' rights bill?
After weeks of arm-twisting and back-room negotiating, House Republicanspushed through legislation last month to provide safeguards for patientsin managed care plans. President George Bush and Rep. Charles Norwood (R-Ga.)set the stage for the vote by reaching a last-minute compromise on the all-importantliability issue. The deal alienated Democrats, however, and might make itimpossible for the two parties to reach a final agreement on legislationthat President Bush will sign into law.
In this episode of the "Meet the Board" podcast series, Briana Contreras, Managed Healthcare Executive editor, speaks with Ateev Mehrotra, a member of the MHE editorial advisory board and a professor of healthcare policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School. Mehtrotra is also a hospitalist at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. In the discussion, Contreras gets to know Mehrotra more on a personal level and picks his brain on some of his research interests including telehealth, alternative payment models and price transparency.
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