The prestigious publication of Consumer Reports made an evaluation of the quality of several of the hospitals in Puerto Rico, including the Ashford Presbyterian Community Hospital of San Juan, Auxilio Mutuo of San Juan, Cardiovascular Center of San Juan, Women Hospital of Ponce, Brother’s Meléndez…
Medicare does not pay medical expenses that are expected to be paid by insurers or by the “Fondo del Seguro de Estado”. That is why, when Medicare pays medical expenses in a medical malpractice case, which eventually is indemnified or damages are paid, due to…
“Shoemaker to their shoes”. Frequently we receive in our offices “cries for help” from medical malpractice victims who have entrusted their medical malpractice cases to attorneys without the needed experience in these types of cases. Typically, they arrive desperately because they have realized their attorneys…
According to the newspaper El Nuevo Día, on April 27th, 2013, Puerto Rico’s medical institutions conglomerate, which operate under HIMA’s umbrella, has just ended their contract with MMM (“Medicare y Mucho Más”) medical insurer, in order to provide medical services to the golden age. According…
Our society has outcast the senior citizen’s population. In the last 10 years, the percentage of elders in Puerto Rico’s population has increased, and it is forecast that it will continue increasing, just like it is happening in the North American population. This makes all…
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES APPROVES REPORT TO ELIMINATE THE $75,000 LIMIT IN MEDICAL MALPRACTICE CASES
Through its president, the Honorable Representative Lydia Méndez Silva, the House of Representatives Health Commission, issued a report recommending the approval of the P. of the C. 193, which intends to amend the 544 statute of 2004 that created the Department of Health’s 8131 Regulation.…
As discussed some time ago, the past Secretary of Health, Dr. Lorenzo González, administratively amended the Regulation 8131 (trauma centers certification) with the only purpose of unjustly favoring doctors and hospitals by limiting the maximum compensation of $75,000 for the damages sustained by any medical…
On February 9, 2013, El Nuevo Día published that “finally” Puerto Rico’s government opened the facilities of the new Trauma Center of Centro Médico. This facility, created by Aníbal Acevedo Vilá’s administration, was ready since 2009, but was empty and not in use. Governor Alejandro…
During the public hearings celebrated by the House of Representatives, regarding the proposed amendment of eliminating the $75,000 limit of the Department of Health’s Regulation 8131, Dr. Eduardo Ibarra, president of the College of Physicians-Surgeons of Puerto Rico, testified. During his speech, Dr. Ibarra was…
Today, I want to share with the reader that in the past months, I have noticed a considerable increase in the consultation of cases, where the medical negligence has been of such magnitude, that you do not need to be a doctor to notice it.…