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Recoverable Damages In Negligent Reproductive Health Care Cases

PCP Turnover Contributes $979 Million In Excess Health Care Costs In The United States

July 12, 2022

PCP Turnover Contributes $979 Million In Costs: A study published on February 26, 2022 entitled “Health Care Expenditures Attributable to Primary Care Physician Overall and Burnout-Related Turnover: A Cross-sectional Analysis” reported: “Turnover of PCPs results in approximately $9[...]

Defensive Medicine Study: Cancer Patients Make Clinically Inappropriate Demands In Only 1% Of Encounters

March 16, 2015

One of the arguments often raised in support of imposing restrictive tort reforms on medical malpractice victims is that doctors are forced to practice “defensive medicine” otherwise (that is, doctors order medical tests that are not medically necessary in order to avoid medical malpr[...]

Doctors Practicing Medicine Not Highest Paid In Medical Industry

June 1, 2014

If you thought that physicians providing health care to patients were at or near the top of the list of the highest earners in the medical industry, you would be wrong — they are in the middle of the pack. An analysis undertaken on behalf of The New York Times found that the base pay […[...]

U.S. Health Care Statistics

November 15, 2013

In 2011, U.S. health care employed 15.7% of the U.S. workforce (1 in 25 health care employees is a physician); U.S. health care expenditures were $2.7 trillion; and, there were approximately 800,000 physicians and 2,700,000 nurses in the U.S. From 1980 to 2011, U.S. health care expenditur[...]

Medical Malpractice Payments In 2011 At Lowest Level On Record

July 12, 2012

In a report entitled “Malpractice Payments Sunk to Record Low in 2011” that was just released by Public Citizen, it was found that “Medical malpractice payments were at their lowest level on record in 2011 by almost any measure. Specifically, both the number of malpractice payment[...]

Who Pays For And Receives Health Care In the United States?

July 10, 2012

In light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision upholding as constitutional the federal health care overhaul law frequently referred to as “Obamacare,” we thought it appropriate to provide some recently released official statistics regarding health care services and the[...]

150th Consecutive Daily Blog (And Counting)

August 1, 2011

Today’s blog represents the 150th consecutive daily entry appearing in this blog. Over 500 hours have been devoted to researching and writing the blogs that have appeared here. We have addressed the official statistics regarding medical malpractice claims in the U.S. (March 5) as well as i[...]

Laws Limiting Physicians’ Self-Referral

May 15, 2011

Limitations on physician self-referrals were enacted into law in 1989 under the Ethics in Patient Referrals Act, commonly referred to as the “Stark law.” The Stark law, as amended, and its implementing regulations, prohibit certain physician self-referrals for designated health services (̶[...]

HEALTH CARE COSTS AND TORT REFORM

March 8, 2011

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has stated that tort reform might reduce health care costs by 0.5 percent, saving approximately $11 billion out of a total of $2.5 trillion in health care costs annually. The actual costs of malpractice insurance premiums, court verdicts, and the[...]

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