Download or read book The Effect of the Medical Liability Insurance Crisis on Physician Supply and Access to Medical Care in Georgia written by Bruce Deighton and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medical Liability written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Physician Shortage Crisis in Rural America written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Medical Malpracitce Legislation written by Caitlin A. Motley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of the Medical Liability Insurance Crisis on Medical Students Specialty Choice written by Simone Lorraine Lawson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impacts of Medicaid Expansion on the Liability Insurance Industry written by Jingshu Luo and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation studies the impact of Medicaid expansion on the liability insurance industry. Within the three chapters, the first two chapters focus on the medical liability insurance industry, and the third chapter focuses on the auto insurance industry. Chapter 1, "Medicaid Expansion and Medical Liability Costs", examines the impact of health insurance expansion on medical liability costs using the case of the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Medicaid expansion. Medicaid expansion has increased the demand for medical services, but in doing so it may also have increased physicians' liability in medical practice. By studying malpractice costs to insurers, medical practitioners, and hospitals in the U.S. for the period 2010-2018, we find insurers operating in states with Medicaid expansion experienced significantly higher medical liability costs than those in non-expansion states. While insurers in expansion states did increase premiums, the increase was not enough to fully offset rising costs. Moreover, we find that tort reforms did not mitigate ACA-induced malpractice liability costs. We show this is because Medicaid expansion increased malpractice costs mainly by increasing claim frequency while tort reforms generally focus on reducing claim severity. We further find little evidence that hospitals paid higher malpractice insurance premiums, self-insurance, or incurred higher out-of-pocket medical liability losses after Medicaid expansion. Taken together, our results imply that it is medical practitioners and malpractice insurers who bear the rising medical liability costs. Chapter 2, "Medicaid Expansion and Medical Liability Insurance Prices" extends the first chapter to study the impact of Medicaid expansion on medical liability insurance prices for three specialties, internal medicine, general surgery, and obstetrics-gynecology (OB-GYN). As Medicaid expansion increased medical liability costs to insurers, they may react by increasing medical malpractice insurance prices. By studying counties in expansion states and non-expansion states and bordering counties with different Medicaid expansion status over the years from 2010-2018, we find that Medicaid expansion leads to significantly higher medical liability insurance prices two years after the expansion on average and the impact is strongest for internal medicine and general medicine but less so for OB-GYN. Our finding suggests that the expansion of health insurance could increase liability costs to medical practitioners. Auto insurance provides coverage of healthcare for injured drivers even for those without traditional health insurance coverage. The expansion of public health insurance provides low-income injured drivers with an additional source of coverage for medical bills. This may change drivers' incentives for using auto insurance and the ultimate payments made by auto insurers. In Chapter 3, "Public Health Insurance Expansion and Auto Insurance: The Case of Medicaid Expansion", we first use a simple theoretical model to illustrate how obtaining public health insurance mitigates the incentive of insured drivers to engage in claims buildup. We then empirically test how the Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s Medicaid expansion changed the medical costs covered by auto insurance. By studying private passenger auto insurers in expansion states and non-expansion states between 2010 and 2018, we find that Medicaid expansion led to significantly lower auto insurance losses and premiums. We further show that the results were driven by the decreasing losses and premiums for third-party liability insurers but not in the states with no-fault insurance.
Download or read book The Effects of Litigation on Health Care Costs written by Ann T. Hunsaker and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Access to Medical Care written by Keith Dahlberg MD and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his fifty-year medical practice, Dr. Keith Dahlberg has practiced family medicine both in the United States and abroad. He has focused especially on those who have difficulty getting access to medical care. This book offers a common sense, many-sided approach to America's present medical delivery problems, and the more than forty-five million American citizens who have no medical insurance. Dr. Dahlberg writes both to the family that is searching for better medical care, and to doctors who seek to improve it. Sample chapters include: What Makes Medical Costs Rise The Costliest Medical Tool The Medicine She Never Took Payment Up Front: The Uninsured Electronic Records Medical Insurance
Download or read book The Effect of Physician Liability Insurance on the Severity of Medical Injuries written by Deborah Jane Chollet and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clearinghouse Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mcfly Goes to Med School Your Physician in the Unraveling U S Healthcare Crisis written by Cecil Bennett and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Healthcare could decide the next presidential election if the uninsured and seniors rallied together with one voice around this critical issue. This book presents a plan that controls healthcare spending and provides coverage for 47 million uninsured Americans, without taxing the general population, and without a government administered universal health program. To understand healthcare one has to understand the players. This includes physicians, hospitals, insurance companies, government, drug companies and lawyers. Nothing starts in this $2 trillion a year industry called healthcare without the physician. Yet the physician seems as powerless a participant as the uninsured. How did this happen? Most people do not realize that the U.S. will have a deficit of 100,000 to 200,000 physicians within the next ten years. How will this shortage be addressed? Healthcare is a right not a privilege. Our elected officials take an oath of office to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. Every year over 18,000 people die unnecessarily because of being uninsured. Real solutions are needed to combat this deadly domestic enemy. The last chapters of this book list the names, addresses, phone and fax numbers of all members of Congress. It is time for the voices of 47 million uninsured Americans to be heard.
Download or read book Communities in Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
Download or read book The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States written by Peter Buerhaus and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States: Data, Trends and Implications provides a timely, comprehensive, and integrated body of data supported by rich discussion of the forces shaping the nursing workforce in the US. Using plain, jargon free language, the book identifies and describes the key changes in the current nursing workforce and provide insights about what is likely to develop in the future. The Future of the Nursing Workforce offers an in-depth discussion of specific policy options to help employers, educators, and policymakers design and implement actions aimed at strengthening the current and future RN workforce. The only book of its kind, this renowned author team presents extensive data, exhibits and tables on the nurse labor market, how the composition of the workforce is evolving, changes occurring in the work environment where nurses practice their profession, and on the publics opinion of the nursing profession.
Download or read book Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Download or read book The Impact of the Medical Insurance Program for Population Below the Poverty Line MIP on Access to Health Services in Georgia written by Irma Mjavanadze and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Georgia s Certificate of Need written by Charles A. Dorminy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Future of the Public s Health in the 21st Century written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
