In the new era of healthcare, government and private payers are shifting from volume-based reimbursement to value-based reimbursement. As private payers refine their networks and move away from ...

Medical malpractice insurance is essential for you as a healthcare professional, but you may wonder why it is so costly, especially in Florida. More patients are making claims, and the value of ...

Medical costs over the last number of years have increased significantly. However, these significant increases are not related to medical malpractice lawsuits, but rather to other factors, such as the ...

Defense costs for malpractice cases range widely among specialties, but invariably are higher for claims resulting in indemnity payments, a recently published letter in The New England Journal of ...

Careful analysis of the seemingly intractable problem of rising medical costs can typically be reduced to three things: 1) ...

Medical malpractice costs in the U.S. are escalating, with average payouts rising even as the number of claims declines. Industry data shows liability premiums increasing for seven straight years, ...

The extra imaging study, the extra day in hospital at the end of an admission, the repetitive laboratory testing, the admission to the hospital to be “sure” about the diagnosis are all inherent in the ...

Just over half of US physicians have been named in a medical malpractice lawsuit, and just over half of those doctors have been defendants multiple times. Plaintiffs most often seem to go after ...

Silvia Garcia’s 14-year-son was left permanently disabled and in a wheelchair after a community health center doctor in New Mexico failed to diagnose his appendicitis despite his complaint of severe ...

This story originally appeared on Spotlight PA. Pennsylvania’s highest court on Thursday took the controversial step of reversing a two-decade-old rule aimed at tamping down a crisis of doctors ...