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…
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.…