Theresa Barta

Greed on Trial (eBook, ePUB)

Doctors and Patients Unite to Fight Big Insurance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A trial attorney recounts her fight against insurance companies who put profit before patients-and wrongfully terminate doctors who don't comply.

In the modern world of American medicine, insurance companies call the shots. Their policies often require cutting corners on patient care in pursuit of profit. These policies often reduce the amount of time doctors spend with patients, push older and cheaper medications, and limit the number of tests and referrals doctors can order. And if doctors don't comply, they could lose their insurance affiliations.

Despite the risks, some brave doctors choose to resist these policies-only to find themselves out of a job. That's where attorney Theresa Barta steps in. Barta specializes in suing insurers and health-care companies who wrongfully terminate doctors. In Greed on Trial, Barta's takes readers inside three dramatic and important cases from her files. In each story, we watch Theresa assemble her evidence and fight the scourge of insurance company abuse in the court of law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brown Books Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781612542812
• Artikelnr.: 58645587

Autorenporträt

Theresa Barta is a physician's advocate. She started her law practice in 1998 and has since represented hundreds of physicians in litigation matters against insurance companies, medical groups, and HMOs. She tried one of the first cases in California under the state's anti-retaliation statute and has won many multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements for her clients. In 2013, she was named Top Gun Trial Lawyer of the Year. Ms. Barta began her career with the law firm of Morrison & Foerster, where she specialized in business litigation, and from there went on to work for Shernoff Bidart Echeverria, where she litigated cases in the firm's health-insurance practice-in particular, bad-faith disputes against health insurers and HMOs. She is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, US Courts of Appeal for the Ninth and Eleventh Circuits, and all of the state and federal courts in California. She holds a JD from Loyola Law School, where she graduated Order of the Coif and was a member of the St. Thomas More Law Honor Society. Ms. Barta lives in Newport Beach, California, with her husband and has two daughters.