The organization Public Citizen will hold a news conference tomorrow to discuss a new study showiing that most Medicare doctors in Utah do not participate with the private managed care plans that are envisioned in the Bush Administration's Medicare reform proposal.
Meanwhile a look at the Public Citizen website has some interesting information about Utah doctors.  The Public Citizen site compiles information on disciplined doctors and reveals these facts:
Utah ranks 10th in the nation in number of serious disciplinary actions per 1,000 MDs in 2001.
Utah's access to disciplinary information was rated B for content and C for user-friendliness.
The largest single offense for which doctors were disciplined from 1992  to 2001 was disciplinary action by another state or agency (24%) and overprescribing or misprescribing drugs (11%).
[Public Citizen / Questionable Doctors]
[Utah Disciplinary Actions]

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