Download or read book Federal Medical Malpractice Insurance at Community and Migrant Health Centers written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the more than 500 community & migrant health centers that provide access to health care for about 6 million people in regard to their medical malpractice insurance costs & claims experience. Charts & tables.
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Federally funded community and migrant health centers, which provide health care to more than 9 million people regardless of their ability to pay, are facing growing patient caseloads and increasing financial pressures. As a result, Congress gave these 716 centers an opportunity to reduce or eliminate their spending for private malpractice insurance--estimated at $50 million in 1994. By offering Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) coverage to these centers, the federal government has agreed to assume responsibility for malpractice claims against covered centers. Malpractice coverage provided by FTCA differs in many ways from that offered by private insurers. One of the significant differences is the lack of a monetary cap on liability coverage, which could play a significant role in determining the federal government's ultimate cost of providing FTCA coverage to community and migrant health centers. As more centers rely on FTCA for malpractice coverage, the federal government's potential liability will increase as will the need for risk management. The growth in FTCA coverage offers both the challenge of a greater federal liability to manage and a new opportunity to help community and migrant health centers improve the quality of their care.
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With support from the federal government, more than 500 community and migrant health centers provide health care for about six million people who live in areas with a shortage of doctors and other health care providers. Under the Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act of 1992, the government will--for a three-year period that began in January 1993--assume responsibility for malpractice claims filed against these facilities. Grantee centers could save as much as $55 million in insurance costs during that period. The tab for the government could be as much as $27 million--about $19 million in claim payments and about $8 million in contingency margins. Because of possible time lags between when an injury occurs and when a claim is filed and paid, the government could take 10 years or longer to pay for all the compensable injuries that occur at the medical centers. Therefore, the government's estimated costs for claim payments could total about $27 million, $30 million, and $33 million for coverage years 1993-95, respectively. Claims, however, would be paid through the year 2006. It could cost the government more money over time to resolve the grantees' malpractice claims under this arrangement than if private insurance coverage had continued. Because the act provides unlimited dollar coverage for each claim filed and paid--as opposed to private insurance, which sets dollar coverage limits--losses could be about 50-percent greater. In addition, the act makes the government liable for injuries that private sector insurers would not have been liable for.
Download or read book Federally Assisted Health Clinics Legal Protection Act of 1991 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Liability and the Delivery of Obstetrical Care written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Energy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on critical data elements needed to assess alternative ways of providing medical malpractice insurance coverage to community and migrant health care centers providing services to vulnerable and disadvantaged populations. GAO found that: (1) available malpractice claims data did not provide an adequate basis to assess insurance alternatives, due to incomplete, outdated, and limited data; (2) if center physicians had more favorable claims experience, proportionately lower malpractice insurance costs could be indicated; (3) in actuarial terms, the total number of physicians was small, making it important to maximize data adequacy by maximizing the number of centers from which data are obtained; and (4) actuaries believed that critical data needed to test assumptions included the number of physicians and other health care providers covered by the centers', or their own, malpractice insurance and the associated number of claims and the dollar amount of claims of the centers over at least the past 5 years.
Download or read book Medical Malpractice Estimated Savings and Costs of Federal Insurance at Health Centers written by United States Accounting Office (GAO) and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HRD-93-130 Medical Malpractice: Estimated Savings and Costs of Federal Insurance at Health Centers
Download or read book Report of the Task Force on Medical Liability and Malpractice written by United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Task Force on Medical Liability and Malpractice and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Malpractice Insurance and the Community Health Centers written by United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Federal Tort Claims Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Download or read book Health Care Reform Issues relating to medical malpractice May 20 1993 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Download or read book Medical Malpractice written by Panteleymon L. Hiltz and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volatility in prices and availability of medical malpractice liability insurance and allegations that insurance companies may have colluded in raising current rates are receiving attention from policymakers. This book provides an overview of the current medical malpractice insurance situation and recent laws relevant to this issue.
