• Emergency Medicine
• Emergency Medicine & Active Labor Act (EMTALA).
• Hospital Liability
• Utilization Review
• Risk Management
• Pre-Hospital Care
• Medical Insurance
• Reimbursement/Bad Faith
• Quality Assurance
• HMO/Managed Care Liability
• Elder Abuse
• Ethics
• Hospital Liability
• Credentialing

• Emergency Medicine

• Chairperson, National Ethics & Professional Policy Committee
  American College of Medical Quality
• Fellow, American College of Emergency Physicians
• Distinguished Fellow, American College of Medical Quality
• Diplomat, American Board of Quality Assurance & Utilization Review Physicians
• Member, Board of Trustees, American College of Medical Quality

• Medical Insurance Companies
• Utilization Review Organizations
  
• Paramedic & Nurse Liability
• State's Managed Care
• Workers Compensation & PRO Organizations
• Hospital Quality Management Consultant
• Reimbursements Issues
• Merit Evaluations
• Depositions & Trial Testimony

Dr. Bronston is the National Chairman of the Ethics & Professional Policy Committee of the American College of Medical Quality, a member of their board of trustees & has been instrumental in the drafting & adoption of national standards in medical quality management.

He has extensive defense & plaintiff medical-legal experience regarding medical bad-faith & provider fraud issues. He has consulted & lectured for medical malpractice insurance companies regarding managed care systems & their impact on physicians performances & the liability issues involved. Dr. Bronston was the plaintiff expert witness in the landmark Wilson vs. Blue Cross of California case, which involved medical insurance & utilization review responsibility & liability in a patient's bad outcome.

Dr. Bronston has consulted with the State of California regarding workers compensation reform & the State's medical quality & utilization management regulations covering this area. He was instrumental in advising & formulating the Certification Standards for the new Health Care Organizations (HCOs) for the Division of Workers Compensation. He continues to advise the State regarding the enforcement, management & oversight of these new oversight review systems & has been a special consultant for the Department of Managed Health Care which regulates Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs). Dr. Bronston is a medical consultant/reviewer for the California Medical Board and a physician expert reviewer for the State Peer Review Organization (PRO).

Dr. Bronston has more than eleven years of experience consulting for both private utilization review organizations & the providers of medical care regarding justifiable, accountable, defensible & documented medical decision making.

He lectures nationally to The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), The Defense Research Institute (DRI) & The National Judicial College among others on various issues such as appropriate development & implementation of practice parameters/guidelines, physician credentialing/profiling issues/report carding, medical necessity & benefit determinations, & standards of care. He brings ethics, clarity & practicality to medical decision-making & the interacting oversight review systems which ultimately produce quality medical care delivered in an efficient & cost-effective manner.

Dr. Bronston is a board certified physician in emergency medicine & continues to practice in Los Angeles, California. He was national sub- committee chair on economic credentialing for the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) & was a contributing author on managed care in ACEP's book "Emergency Medicine Risk Management". He has sat on his hospitals' quality assurance & utilization review committees & brings a balanced, common sense & practical approach to problem solving & system development.

• HUNTINGTON BEACH HOSPITAL
  October, 1995 - April, 1999
• VALLEY PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL
  1985 - June 1993
• DOMINGUEZ MEDICAL CENTER
  September 1988 - April 1991
• MEDICUS MEDICAL GROUP
  December1986 - 1991
• VALLEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER
  January 1986 - February 1987
• CENTINELLA MEDICAL CENTER
  November 1994 - April 1996
• BROTMAN MEDICAL CENTER
  April 1989 - August 1997

• BASICS OF UR/QA
  NATIONAL CONFERENCE, AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL QUALITY
  June, 1992
• ETHICS COMMITTEE POLICIES
  NATIONAL CONFERENCE, AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDICAL QUALITY
  June, 1993
• MEDICAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT
  MEDICAL MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES
  August, 1993 - Present
• ETHICS
  MANAGED CARE CONGRESS
  January, 1994
• LIABILITY ISSUES IN A MANAGED CARE ENVIRONMENT
  NORCAL MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY
  1994
• ETHICS IN MEDICAL DECISION MAKING
  WOMEN IN HEALTH CARE ADMINISTRATION
  June, 1994
• PRACTICE PARAMETERS, "THE GOOD BAD & THE UGLY"
  CORONA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
  November, 1994
  
• PRACTICE PARAMETERS, "THE GOOD BAD & THE UGLY"
  HOLY CROSS HOSPITAL, Chicago, Illinois
  Novemher, 1994
  
• OVERSIGHT REVIEW SYSTEMS IN THE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SYSTEM
  QUALITY ASSURANCE SECTION, LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT
  January, 1995
• PRACTICE PARAMETERS, "THE GOOD, BAD & THE UGLY"
  PETALUMA VALLEY HOSPITAL, Petaluma, California
  February 1995
• MANAGING MEDICAL QUALITY FOR WORKER'S COMPENSATION IN CALIFORNIA
  NATIONAL CONFERENCE, AMERICAN COLLEGE OF MEDCIAL QUALITY
  April, 1995
• QA/UR, THE BASICS, "THE GOOD, BAD & THE UGLY"
  IBC, USA CONFERENCES, INC., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  June 1995
• "THE GOOD. BAD & THE UGLY," PHYSICIAN SURVIVABILITY IN THE '90s"
  COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL, Chicago, Illinois
  November 1995
  
• QUALITY MEDICAL CARE: A PHYSICIAN'S PERSPECTIVE"
  NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ADVOCACY, ATLA, Atlanta, Georgia
  September, 1997
  
• "SURVIVING THE MANAGED CARE CRISIS"
  RANCHO LOS AMIGOS MEDICAL CENTER, Downey, California
  June, 1998
  
• "WHAT LAWYERS CAN DO TO IMPROVE HEALTH CARE BY HMOs"
  ATLA ANNUAL CONVENTION, Washington, DC
  July, 1998
  
• "MANAGED CARE IN EMERGENCY MEDICINE"
  DEFENSE RESEARCH INSTITUTE, ANNUAL CONVENTION, Chicago, Illinois
  September 24, 1998
• "HMO ISSUES"
  NATIONAL JUDICIAL COLLEGE, Reno, Nevada
  May 20,1999
• "FAILURE TO DIAGNOSE & TREAT IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT"
  AMERICAN TRIAL LAWYERS ASSOCIATON, Las Vegas, Nevada
  November, 2002
  
• "MARKETING THE LABORATORY A KEY PARTNER IN PATIENT SAFETY"
  CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTION (CDC)
  April 13-15, 2003

• Member, Medical Advisory Board
  AVIVA FOUNDATION
  August 1993 - October 1997
• Consultant, Medicaid Reimbursement Issues
  H. F. SYSTEMS
  February 1994- 1995
• Consultant, Emergency Department
  LODI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, Lodi, California
  November 1996

• State of Michigan
  DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING & REGULATION
  Permit ID # 003984, Expiration 6/30/84

• HealthMarc
  Minneapolis, MN
  September 1988 - Fehruary 1995
  
• Health Cost Consultants. Inc.
  1850 Centennial Park Drive, Suite 200
  Reston, VA 20191
  1990 - 2004
  
• Med Trac
  P0 Box 290429
  Nashville, Tennessee 37229-0429
  March 1990 - January 2001
  
• Care Review/National Health Services. Inc.
  9200 Shelbyville Road, Suite 700
  Louisville, KY 40222-8504
  1994 - 2004
  
• Focus Healthcare
  7101 Executive Center Drive, Suite 160
  Brentwood, TN 37027
  1990 - 1994
  
• Valuetrac
  Portland, OR
  1991 - 1994
• Associate Medical Review
  Metairie, LA
  1988 - 1992
• Spectrum Review Services
  3845 FM 1960 West, Suite 110
  Houston, TX 77068
  1992 - 2004
• Value Health Sciences. Inc.
  2400 Broadway, Suite 100
  Santa Monica, CA 90404
  1989 - 1990
  
• Baxter/Health Data Institute
  Santa Monica, CA
  1989 - 1991
  
• Maximus-Center for Health
  1 Fishers Road, 2nd Floor
  Pittsford, NY 14534
  September 2003 - 2004

• Certificate of Training - Arbitrator I Workshop
  November 12 - 13, 2001
  American Arbitration Association
  Los Angeles, California
  
• Certificate of Training - Arbitrator II Workshop
  November 6 - 7, 2002
  American Arbitration Association
  Los Angeles, California
  
• Listed on Roster of Neutrals
  November, 2001 - Present
  American Arbitration Association
  Los Angeles, California
  
• Listed on the Roster of Neutrals
  2001 - Present
  American Health Lawyers Association
  Washington, D.C.