The impact of medical malpractice insurance cost on physician behaviour: the role of income and tort signal ef- fects. Appl Econ 1999;31:779-94.Thornton, J. (1999) The impact of medical malpractice insu- rance cost on physician behavior: the role of income and tort signal effects, ...
The paper examines the impact of medical malpractice insurance cost on physician behaviour. Changes in malpractice insurance premiums can potentially influence physician behaviour directly through income effects from changes in medical practice earnings, and indirectly through tort signal effects that indicate...
Rapidly rising medical malpractice insurance costs are causing reduced access to health care services. Physicians and other health care professionals are limiting or discontinuing high-risk procedures and services to reduce their malpractice insurance cost and potential liability; patients are forced to trav...
Physician Market Power–Evidence from the Allocation of Malpractice Premiums. Economic Inquiry - Thurston - 2001 () Citation Context ...e to pass through all (or even moresthan all) of the cost of malpractice insurance to patients and insurers (Danzon etsal. 1990).sMuch of this pass through...
A primary cause of their concern has been significant growth in the cost of medical malpractice insurance premiums, a development that many term a crisis.1 There are statistics to support the claim of crisis. A recent survey by the American Medical Association (AMA), for example, revealed that...
The Malpractice (MP) RVU reflects the costs of malpractice insurance Geographic Practice Cost Indices (GPCIs): Medicare adjusts each of the 3 RVUs to account for geographic variations in the costs of practicing medicine in different areas of the country. Each kind of RVU component has a corres...
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Interestingly, a recent survey of physicians and patients reported that what concerned them most about today's health care was not medical errors but rather costs of malpractice, lawsuits, cost of health care, and the cost of prescription drugs (see Blendon et al, 2008; Murillo et al, 2006...
Deaths in police custody are hugely expensive both in terms of the emotional cost for the individuals and families involved and also financially, in relation to the formal inquiry that inevitably ensues. Research evidence has shown that the main causes of deaths in police custody in the UK involv...