Daily Report Blog

AOA President Martin S. Levine, DO, wrote to the Chairman of the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Health on 8/24/11 to express our support for AB 147.  This bill would reform state law relating to the admissibility of statements by physicians and other health care providers by making any statement or conduct that expresses apology, benevolence, compassion, condolence, fault, liability, remorse, responsibility, or sympathy to a patient or patient’s relative inadmissible as evidence in any civil action or administrative hearing. We believe that reforming the medical tort liability system is one of the most pressing issues facing our nation, particularly access-to-care issues and rising health care costs. The reform contained in AB 147 would facilitate greater provider-patient communication and help resolve these issues.​