Join assistant editor Geoffrey Plant as he talks with Troy Clark, president of the New Mexico Hospital Association. Troy explains how medical malpractice insurance caps have continued to rise since 2001, making it challenging for doctors to get coverage. Caps for individual providers are currently set for at $750,000 per claim. Hospitals caps will rise from $5.5 million in 2025 to $6 million in 2026. But this is just the beginning of what prevents NM from being a destination for medical practitioners. Listen in to learn more. 

Join assistant editor Geoffrey Plant as he talks with Troy Clark, president of the New Mexico Hospital Association. Troy explains how medical malpractice insurance caps have continued to rise since 2001, making it challenging for doctors to get coverage. Caps for individual providers are currently set for at $750,000 per claim. Hospitals caps will rise from $5.5 million in 2025 to $6 million in 2026. But this is just the beginning of what prevents NM from being a destination for medical practitioners. Listen in to learn more.

Join us for a new podcast from award winning weekly newspaper, The Taos News. Every week on Saturday we'll release a new episode featuring a voice from our Taos community. We'll cover the arts, current events, and sports on different episodes hosted by our talented reporting staff.

Join us for a new podcast from award winning weekly newspaper, The Taos News. Every week on Saturday we'll release a new episode featuring a voice from our Taos community. We'll cover the arts, current events, and sports on different episodes hosted by our talented reporting staff.

Voices of Taos

Want to know what's happening in Taos? Tune into the new podcast from award winning weekly newspaper, The Taos News! Voices of Taos will inspire you with the voices of our Taos community

Want to know what's happening in Taos? Tune into the new podcast from award winning weekly newspaper, The Taos News! Voices of Taos will inspire you with the voices of our Taos community

Troy Clark, President of the New Mexico Hospital Association, on why medical professionals are not coming to NM

Join Taos News Editor John Miller and Assistant Editor Geoffrey Plant as they look back on some of the biggest stories in Taos and Northern NM from 2024.

John and Geoffrey talk about the Lady Panther's state basketball title, the Tarleton Ranch Eco-Village, the FBI finding two stolen paintings from the Harwood Museum, and much more.

For an extended look at the top stories, quotes, blotter entries, and photographs from 2024 be sure to pick up our end-of-year edition on Thursday (Dec. 27th).

Join Taos News Editor John Miller and Assistant Editor Geoffrey Plant as they look back on some of the biggest stories in Taos and Northern NM from 2024.
John and Geoffrey talk about the Lady Panther's state basketball title, the Tarleton Ranch Eco-Village, the FBI finding two stolen paintings from the Harwood Museum, and much more.
For an extended look at the top stories, quotes, blotter entries, and photographs from 2024 be sure to pick up our end-of-year edition on Thursday (Dec. 27th).

A Review of 2024 with John Miller and Geoffrey Plant

This week on Voices of Taos we are sharing an episode from Conversations Different, a podcast by our sister paper the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Picuris Pueblo is among the most rural and smallest tribes in Northern New Mexico. Nestled in the high mountains between Taos and Española, the pueblo of about 300 residents has struggled to find long-term economic development and opportunities to sustain its community. Picuris Pueblo Governor Craig Quanchello and author Daniel Gibson join "Conversations Different" host Inez Russell Gomez to discuss the large-scale venture the pueblo has successfully undertaken to address that economic struggle –– ownership of the Hotel Santa Fe. Quanchello reflects on the process that led to the Native and non-Native partnership that allowed the project to happen, while Gibson talks about his new book that documents it along with a focus on the Picuris people.

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This week on Voices of Taos we are sharing an episode from Conversations Different, a podcast by our sister paper the Santa Fe New Mexican. Picuris Pueblo is among the most rural and smallest tribes in Northern New Mexico. Nestled in the high mountains between Taos and Espa&ntilde;ola, the pueblo of about 300 residents has struggled to find long-term economic development and opportunities to sustain its community. Picuris Pueblo Governor Craig Quanchello and author Daniel Gibson join "Conversations Different" host Inez Russell Gomez to discuss the large-scale venture the pueblo has successfully undertaken to address that economic struggle &ndash;&ndash; ownership of the Hotel Santa Fe. Quanchello reflects on the process that led to the Native and non-Native partnership that allowed the project to happen, while Gibson talks about his new book that documents it along with a focus on the Picuris people.
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 Picuris Pueblo Governor Craig Quanchello and author Daniel Gibson on a new book about Picuris and Hotel Santa Fe

This week on Voices of Taos join assistant editor Geoffrey Plant as he talks with Bryanna Baker, a victim of medical malpractice, and Cid Lopez, Baker's lawyer and a specialist in malpractice claims. During the interview, Baker shares her story of being pregnant and having a heart attack when she was 24 years old in 2006. Sadly she was misdiagnosed at two medical facilities in Northern New Mexico before she received adequate care. By the time doctors figured out what was wrong, she had suffered irreparable damage to her heart and lost her pregnancy. She filed a medical malpractice lawsuit and won, but Baker said her reward, which was capped under state statute at the time and significantly less than her $9.5 million verdict, is not adequate compensation. Lopez helped advocate for the cap to be raised in 2021, which has been a relief to victims of medical malpractice in the state. But medical providers, hospitals and public interest groups blame the state's shortage of physicians in part on the high cost of malpractice insurance in New Mexico, which ranks second in the nation for the number of malpractice lawsuits and first among states for insurance loss rates, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data. Lopez says that other issues should be blamed for this shortage, such as the gross receipt tax on medical services and the low reimbursement for medicare. 

This week on Voices of Taos join assistant editor Geoffrey Plant as he talks with Bryanna Baker, a victim of medical malpractice, and Cid Lopez, Baker's lawyer and a specialist in malpractice claims. During the interview, Baker shares her story of being pregnant and having a heart attack when she was 24 years old in 2006. Sadly she was misdiagnosed at two medical facilities in Northern New Mexico before she received adequate care. By the time doctors figured out what was wrong, she had suffered irreparable damage to her heart and lost her pregnancy. She filed a medical malpractice lawsuit and won, but Baker said her reward, which was capped under state statute at the time and significantly less than her $9.5 million verdict, is not adequate compensation. Lopez helped advocate for the cap to be raised in 2021, which has been a relief to victims of medical malpractice in the state. But medical providers, hospitals and public interest groups blame the state's shortage of physicians in part on the high cost of malpractice insurance in New Mexico, which ranks second in the nation for the number of malpractice lawsuits and first among states for insurance loss rates, according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services data. Lopez says that other issues should be blamed for this shortage, such as the gross receipt tax on medical services and the low reimbursement for medicare.

Troy Clark, President of the New Mexico Hospital Association, on why medical professionals are not coming to NM

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