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 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 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 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 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.
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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.
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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.
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