The Meteoric Rise In Prescription Drug Prices
March 28, 2016
The results of a recent study undertaken by Express Scripts, a provider of integrated pharmacy benefit management services in the United States, found that average brand-name prescription drug prices in the United States has risen by 98.2% since 2011. In 2015, brand-name prescription drug prices[...]
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Study Of Medical Malpractice Closed Claims For Hospitalists
March 14, 2016
The Doctors Company, which is the largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer in the United States, recently released its analysis of 464 medical malpractice claims against hospitalists that the insurer closed from 2007 through 2014. The study included all claims and medical malpractice laws[...]
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Johns Hopkins Surgeons Plan First Penis Transplant In The U.S.
March 3, 2016
Johns Hopkins surgeons have already identified the first patient in the United States on whom they intend to perform a penis transplant; they are now waiting for a penis donor. While penis reconstruction surgeries are routinely performed on patients who are born with defects, have suffered injuries,[...]
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Communication Failures In Medical Malpractice Cases
February 5, 2016
A recent report regarding communication failures that contribute to medical malpractice claims found that a communication failure was a factor in 7,149 (30%) of the 23,685 medical malpractice cases filed in the United States from 2009 to 2013, representing $1.7 billion in incurred losses. Of the 7,1[...]
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Methodology Of Recent Medical Malpractice Study Questioned
February 2, 2016
We discussed in our January 28, 2016 blog posting that a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine on January 28, 2016 reported that 1% of physicians were responsible for 32% of the paid medical malpractice claims in the United States over the ten-year period that was analyzed by the [...]
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Anesthesia Medical Malpractice Statistics
January 24, 2016
The findings of a retrospective analysis of anesthesia-related medical malpractice claims that spanned the period from 2005 to 2013 and were reported to the National Practitioner Data Bank were presented during the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists in October 2015. The stu[...]
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Kentucky Settles Two Pharmaceutical Cases For $39.5M
January 7, 2016
The Attorney General of Kentucky announced on December 23, 2015 that Kentucky had settled two pharmaceutical cases on December 22, 2015 that it had brought against Purdue Pharma regarding its opiod prescription medication, OxyContin, and against Janssen Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Johnson &am[...]
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“Retained Surgical Items” Guideline Updated
January 6, 2016
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (“AORN”), which represents the interests of more than 160,000 perioperative nurses by providing nursing education, standards, and clinical practice resources, recently updated its guideline regarding so-called retained surgical items (&[...]
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U.S. Physicians And Their Disciplinary/Malpractice Statistics
January 1, 2016
The U.S. government and many U.S. states gather and publish statistics regarding physicians practicing medicine in the United States. Sometimes it is difficult for people to find information regarding physicians practicing in their state and the incidence of disciplinary actions and medical malpract[...]
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