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...
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...
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...
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The empirical literature on defensive medicine includes studies utilizing date at the state or county level. In comparison to the rest of the literature, these jurisdictional studies typically find the least evidence that rising malpractice liability costs induce cost-increasing or quality-reducing practic...
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ByChris Mazzolini Medical Economics Staff December 25th 2024 Our 95th annual Physician Report covers the latest data on practicing physicians, including salaries, practice financial health, productivity, malpractice rates, the state of the profession and more. Free registration required to view. ...
Individual policies are available through a number of insurance carriers and may prove to be a better choice, particularly if the PA has multiple practice sites and multiple employers. Geographic location and practice specialty dictate the cost of coverage. Having the supervising physician check on ...