Federally-Qualified Health Centers

  • Read more: Trap for the Unwary Works Again: Federal Healthcare and the Limitations Provision of the Federal Tort Claims Act
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    Trap for the Unwary Works Again: Federal Healthcare and the Limitations Provision of the Federal Tort Claims Act

    By Alex Stein The same story involving a federally qualified health center (FQHC) repeats itself again, again, and now again: see Phillips v. Generations Family Health Center, — Fed.Appx. —- (2016), 2016 WL 5340278 (2d Cir. 2016). A patient from Connecticut receives medical treatment from a physician who works at a Connecticut-based facility known as Generations…

  • Read more: Malpractice, Apologies and the Statute of Limitations in Federally Qualified Health Centers
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    Malpractice, Apologies and the Statute of Limitations in Federally Qualified Health Centers

    By Alex Stein Two months ago, the Seventh Circuit has delivered another important decision with regard to medical malpractice actions filed against federally qualified health centers. Blanche v. United States, 811 F.3d 953 (7th Cir. 2016). See also Arteaga v. United States, 711 F.3d 828 (7th Cir. 2013), and Sanchez v. United States, 740 F.3d 47…

  • Read more: Medical Malpractice: FTCA’s Trap for the Unwary
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    Medical Malpractice: FTCA’s Trap for the Unwary

    By Alex Stein Anyone interested in medical malpractice must read the First Circuit’s decision in Sanchez v. United States, 740 F.3d 47 (1st Cir. 2014). Mr. Sanchez’s wife died in a Massachusetts hospital shortly after delivering her third child by c-section. She died from arguably preventable hemorrhaging. Mr. Sanchez and his lawyer thought that they had a…