If 2% of Physicians Are Responsible for Half of Malpractice Payouts, How Should We Intervene with These Outliers? Last month, the Journal of Patient Safety published “The Detection, Analysis and Significance of Physician Clustering in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Payouts,” an analysis of data from the National Practitioner Data Bank (NPDB) that indicates only 1.8 percent […]

Many physicians will face a medical liability claim at some point during their practice – and most liability claims mean a request for patient records. Join us on the latest episode of Healthcare Matters, Patient Records Requests: What You Need to Know, as we discuss how to respond to patient records requests with Richard J. […]

The Future of the Medical Professional Liability, Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act Under a Trump Administration Having weathered two Supreme Court challenges and more than 60 repeal attempts by a GOP-controlled Congress, it was the 2016 election that ultimately handed the Republican Party the ammunition it needs to neuter the Patient Protection & Affordable […]

Medical Liability Monitor 2016 Annual Rate Survey Indicates Medical Malpractice Insurance Rates Remain Flat, Building Pressures Could Harden Market Last month, Medical Liability Monitor published its 2016 Annual Rate Survey, which provides a year-to-year, continuing overview of changing premium rates for medical professional liability insurance. The Annual Rate Survey reports the manual rates for specific […]

In the final part of Healthcare Matter’s interview with Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, we discuss how the move from the current fee-for-service model to an outcome-based reimbursement model will affect the cost of healthcare in the United States. Dr. Jena explains that he does not think that this change will have as great an effect […]

In part six of Healthcare Matter’s interview with Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, we discuss with Dr. Jena whether or not it is possible to differentiate between defensive medicine and “good” medicine. He explains that this is difficult to do and was not addressed in the research for the study Physician spending and subsequent risk of […]

In part five of Healthcare Matter’s interview with Anupam Jena, MD, PhD on the study, Physician spending and subsequent risk of malpractice claims: observational study, Dr. Jena explains some of the limitations of the research he conducted. First, the study was not set up to determine if the relationship between physician spending and a lower […]

Part four of Healthcare Matter’s interview with Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, Dr. Jena addresses the impact of the doctor-patient relationship on medical malpractice suits. Though he states that the idea that patients are less likely to sue a physician with whom they have a good relationship seems to be valid, he goes on to say […]

In part three of Healthcare Matter’s interview with Anupam Jena, MD, PhD, we discuss additional findings in his study, Physician spending and subsequent risk of malpractice claims: observational study, including the potential link between physicians spending more and getting sued less often. Dr. Jena speculates on reasons for the link, such as patients who get […]