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• FDA Recall Alert: Hospira Announces Voluntary Recall of One Lot of 1 Percent Lidocaine HCI Injection, USP, Due to Visible Particulates
  

  From ASCRS/ASOA Bulletin: On Friday, April 18, 2014, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) alerted providers that Hospira, Inc. is conducting a nationwide recall of one lot of 1% Lidocaine HCI Injection, USP, 10mg/mL, 30mL single dose, preservative-free to the user level due to a confirmed customer report of orange and black particulate within the […]

• Lawmaker Seeks to Revamp Florida’s Medical Malpractice System
  

  It seems that California and Florida are again on the frontlines of the war being waged on damage caps and other medical professional liability tort reform. Related article: The most expensive political fight of 2014? How a fight over MICRA might affect every ophthalmologist in America In an article written by Tonya Alanez of the […]

• Study: ACA Could Change Costs for Auto, Medical Professional Liability (MPL), and Other Insurance
  

  The expansion of health insurance coverage in the wake the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may alter costs for several major types of liability insurance, according a new report from RAND. But these changes are likely to be modest, according to the report. Automobile, workers’ compensation, and general business liability insurance costs may fall under the […]

• AAO Response to NYTimes Article: Eye Doctors Say Their Profits Are Smaller Than Data Makes Them Look
  

  Although consumers and health experts will be poring over the newly released Medicare data for months, maybe years to come, one startling piece of information has already emerged, demonstrating some of the complexity inherent in the long-fought-over information on 880,000 health care providers across the country. More than any other specialists, ophthalmologists — not cardiologists, […]