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Doctors in search of their patients during Jay Millson provides for doctors.

Millson, Executive Vice President of the Duval County Medical Society, advocates for doctors and Duval County.

The medical society, which are part of the Florida Medical Association, also creates a directory of local health services and publishes North East Florida medicine, a biannual review focuses on problems that affect the health sector.

With the legislature now in session Millson is to monitor the proposed legislation.

There is nothing that sort of high profile of the year, there were a few years ago, if legislative reform has arzthaftungsrechtlichen which ultimately limit the amount of insurance had to pay $ 500000.

Millson, but warns there are several issues that must be addressed quickly, or they could lead to a crisis like the crisis of the arzthaftungsrechtlichen few years ago for having threatened that doctors in the state.

What is the highest priority of the legislature Duval County Medical Society and the Florida Medical Association, in the 2008 legislative session?

The highest priority must be given to Managed Care bill, the three components.

At the moment, if you have a claim over six months. But the Managed Care organizations have 30 months to consider an application. You can go back and say that the payment should be returned to them. We are dealing with a reduction of 12 months, it looks like it is reduced to 18 months. This creates a level playing field.

We also have a problem with the third of the payments directly to a doctor. (Managed Care-networks) refused to make payments to doctors who do not participate in their network.

This pressure doctors to their network. We want companies to honour third party payments. For now, insurers pay most often the patient, the doctor who pays.

Finally, organizations purchasing preferred supplier lists of doctors participating in the different networks and then pays doctors and the lowest rates that doctors have agreed to accept it. We call for legislation to stop, unless the doctor and the insurer agreed to a specific contract.

Obviously, the insurance companies did not appeal to this Act, and both parties are informed of this right now heads to Tallahassee.

If other priorities, grows in Tallahassee?

We express the sovereign immunity of the emergency request. In the emergency department is not the choice of your patient, they may choose. It is unfair to submit the emergency personnel in litigation.

We also want experts who testify from Florida to record and study, with the state, as auditors. Right now, you at stake, to testify, and you are away. We want the responsibility of some people who do. If you have false testimony, you should lose your login information as an expert witness.

It is also a goal of a handle on Medicaid rates. Medicaid, to the point where one quarter the (public) of the budget. We must stop the bleeding “. But I do not think there is a simple answer.

The state is in a billion dollar budget for the Crunch. How do your expectations of Tallahassee?

It changed everything. Things are really slowing down this year, because insufficient. You do not simply money. We still hope to achieve our goals, but the game is played in an entirely different way.