Defensive Medicine

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• December 4 roundup

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 624
  Insurance mandate or no, New Jersey specialists tending to duck out of high-legal-risk procedures like mammography [ Amy Handlin, Gloucester County Times via NJLRA ] Audi redux, or something different this time? L.A. Times endorses charges of sudden acceleration against Toyota [ Holman Jenkins/WSJ , FindLaw ...
  4 days ago

• Healthcare Fraud Costs Taxpayers Three Times as Much As Medical Malpractice

  
  Justinian Lane - Commentary on law, politics, and tort "reform." — Authority: 128
  The figure most commonly cited as the cost of all medical malpractice is about one half of  one percent of all healthcare expenditures.  Now, some people claim that figure is too low.  So let’s double it and assume that medical malpractice costs add up to 1 full percent of total healthcare spending.  ...
  1 week ago

• When you do it because of lawyers, it’s defensive medicine. But when you do it for lawyers, it’s fraud.

  
  Justinian Lane - Commentary on law, politics, and tort "reform." — Authority: 128
  At least that’s the impression I’m left with.  Look at this: Las Vegas surgeon Mark Kabins agreed this afternoon in U.S. District Court to plead guilty to misprision of a felony in the ongoing federal medical malpractice fraud case. If the court agrees to accept the plea agreement, Kabins will serve ...
  1 week ago

• Are We Headed Toward Bankruptcy?

  
  John Goodman's Health Policy Blog — Authority: 437
  This is Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt: As Post health reporter Ceci Connolly explained in a front-page story last week, the House bill also does not do much to lower costs . It includes some valuable pilot programs. But it doesn’t end the tax break for employer-provided insurance, a break ...
  3 weeks ago

• November 10 roundup

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 624
  Judge vacates $1.2 billion default judgment against PepsiCo [ Watertown, Wisc. Daily Times , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , earlier ] “Democrats’ first spokesman on medical malpractice: former head of the Iowa Trial Lawyers Association.” [ Ponnuru, NRO , on Iowa Rep. Bruce Braley] Related: Carter Wood at ...
  4 weeks ago

• “How much unnecessary testing goes on in the ER?”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 624
  “Plenty, if you ask the people most familiar with the situation, the emergency physicians themselves.” [ KevinMD , Emergency Physicians Monthly , White Coat , WSJ Law Blog ] Relatedly: “Just to be sure: an ER slippery slope” [ MedRants , WhiteCoat ] And yesterday, from the AP . Tags: defensive medicine ...
  4 weeks ago

• Health care dispute: Costs of defensive medicine

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 159
  BOSTON (AP) -- Dr. James Wang says he tries to tell his patients when extra medical procedures arent necessary. If they insist, though, he will do it - not so much to protect their health as his own practice....
  4 weeks ago

• Health care dispute: Costs of defensive medicine

  
  Business Finance & Economy - business.marc8.com — Authority: 166
  Dr. James Wang says he tries to tell his patients when extra medical procedures arent necessary. If they insist, though, he will do it — not so much to protect their health as his own practice.
  4 weeks ago

• Doctors Offer 8 Alternatives for Health Care Reform

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 438
  “Medical decisions are best made by patients and their doctors without interference from government bureaucracies. “ If you agree with that statement, received in an e-mail this morning from Dr. Alan Zuckerman, then you’re likely to find yourself in agreement with the stance being taken by ...
  5 weeks ago

• Im a doctor. So sue me. No, really

  
  San Diego Education Report Blog — Authority: 128
  The doctors lobby says capping malpractice suits will make healthcare cheaper. Im an M.D. and I dont believe it Salon.com By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D. Oct. 27, 2009 ...Defensive medicine is just one of the supposed systemic ills...Proponents of reform say that defensive medicine, frivolous lawsuits and high premiums ...
  5 weeks ago

• October 28 roundup

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 624
  Alleged wife murderer “sues J.P. Morgan for cutting off his home equity line of credit.” Reason cited: “imprisonment”. [ Joe Weisenthal, Business Insider via Fountain ] Charles Krauthammer on the need to “reform our insane malpractice system. … I used to be a doctor, I know how much is wasted on ...
  5 weeks ago

• Iowa doctor admits he committed insurance fraud, but trial lawyers are the bad guys

  
  Justinian Lane - Commentary on law, politics, and tort "reform." — Authority: 128
  Let me get this straight: A doctor actually admitted that he ordered $10,000 dollars worth of medically unnecessary tests in a single day, but he’s the good guy? Dr. Thomas Carlstrom has been keeping good notes. During a single day a few weeks ago, the Des Moines neurosurgeon, ordered about $10,000 worth of ...
  6 weeks ago

• And ObamaCare Would Help How, Exactly?

  
  Joust The Facts — Authority: 123
  Reuters has a report of analysis done by an arm of their parent company, Thompson Reuters, discussing problematic wasteful medical spending in the U.S. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. healthcare system is just as wasteful as President Barack Obama says it is, and proposed reforms could be paid for by...
  6 weeks ago

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