Searching For New York’s Medical Malpractice Crisis
Remember the regular hand wringing about New York’s medical malpractice “crisis”? Doctors were said to be leaving the state in droves. OB/GYNs were dropping the OB. Neurosurgeons were retiring early. Hospitals and medical liability insurance companies in the state suggested they were close to bankruptcy…all because of the dreaded plaintiff’s lawyers and the “jackpot justice” [...]
Trimming the Fat on the Medical Malpractice Beast
Yesterday, I gave a presentation to a roomful of medical records adminstrators at a conference put on by Lorman. The topic was Medical Records Law in New York, and I spoke about handling requests for records, via HIPAA-compliant authorizations, subpoenas, and otherwise.
As I prepared for my talk, I thought back to the barely fathomable amounts [...]
What’s New in Medical Malpractice?
While conservatives, and the GOP in general, continue to clamor for tort “reform,” the reality is that medical malpractice payments are not only not “out of control”–they are at their lowest level since 1992, according to an analysis by Public Citizen.
So it was surprising, to say the least, that a long-time liberal and former Clinton White [...]