by PPN | Sep 27, 2018 | State Info
SOURCE: AAOS Now – https://www.aaos.org/AAOSNow/2018/Sep/YourAAOS/youraaos01 In early July, we learned of the largest single payout to a patient for medical malpractice. The case involved spine surgery, so my friends—both those in health care and not—asked me to...
by PPN | Aug 30, 2018 | Connecticut, Kentucky, Newsletter
The reality of defensive medicine With projections about the cost implications of defensive medicine in the hundreds of millions of dollars, a new study showed greater insight into how physicians treated patients when they were not subject to the threat of lawsuits....
by PPN | Aug 30, 2018 | Kentucky
The Aug. 5 story by Andrew Wolfson on Kentucky’s new Medical Review Panel (MRP) process would have readers believe our legal liability system was working flawlessly before the new law was enacted. Perhaps that was true for the personal injury lawyers and TV stations...
by PPN | Aug 30, 2018 | Connecticut
When the latest medical malpractice premium notice arrives at a physician’s office, it is not often for a small amount. Even practices that have avoided expensive lawsuits or claims are not shielded from rising premiums. Often, it seems that rising medical malpractice...
by PPN | Aug 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Back in 2010, Tom Price, then a congressman, said he knew the chief reason health care cost so much: “Defensive medicine” was costing the United States $650 billion per year — about 26 percent of every dollar spent. The widely dismissed estimate from Dr. Price, an...
