Disability advocates are pushing for a requirement that all medical schools specifically train future doctors to treat people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, but they’re hitting ...

Empty operating room, symbolizing the impact of physicians experiencing disability and the importance of securing physician disability insurance and disability insurance for doctors to protect their ...

Being a medical student or resident is hard enough, but what if you have a disability that adds to the challenge? One medical resident with a physical disability was about a year and a half into ...

California has stopped issuing hundreds of thousands of dollars per year in bonuses to doctors who conduct rapid-fire reviews of U.S. Social Security Administration disability cases. Two doctors were ...

A doctor's note about a worker's physical limitations couldn't prove the worker had a disability because the doctor had not been properly identified as an expert witness, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court ...

I give a lot of talks to groups of doctors, especially newer doctors such as residents and fellows. Two of the most common questions I get after these talks are what kind of insurance they should get ...

States are using their Medicaid programs for similar, limited efforts. California has worked with the disability community to create a survey for Medicaid providers, finding where gaps are and ...

Disability label brings up anti-discrimination and insurance coverage debates. June 18, 2009— -- Fat can be disabling. A person 180 pounds over a healthy weight is susceptible to arthritis, has ...

Former NFL running back Willis McGahee told a doctor assigned to him by the NFL’s disability board that he had suicidal thoughts. Another former NFL player, Michael McKenzie, had his doctor terminate ...

Doctors contracted by the state to review disability applications often processed claims quickly and denied most of them — making big money along the way. Tennessee has among the highest rejection ...