This article is part of a series: Part 2 Part 3 Medical practices and the delivery of healthcare are adapting to accommodate current and imminent changes in the patient population, the health coverage available to the patient population, and reimbursement
With the New Year quickly approaching, many patients will need to make resolutions to lose weight, be more health conscious, and even initiate a workout program based their physician’s recommendation. And recommendations of life style changes to patients more or less
Will a Low Risk Medical Specialty career choice lower your chance of being involved in a malpractice claim? The obvious answer is yes. The question is by how much. A study by the New Journal of Medicine (August 2011) found there
A trend that started a couple of years ago continues to catch on in the medical malpractice insurance community. Several medical professional liability insurance companies have been adding on extra coverages for physicians in order to entice them to stay with
New York physicians, unless they have been on sabbatical, are aware of the rate increases from the admitted carriers writing malpractice insurance coverage in New York. With a few deviances for some specialties, the New York admitted carriers, such as Physicians’
Although a lot of information on the World Wide Web is very inaccurate; patients, physicians, office managers and administrators can find helpful information with a few clicks of the mouse. There are three, state sponsored websites that can provide a
Most physicians assume that their exposure as Medical Director at a nursing home is covered under their standard Medical Professional Liability Insurance policy or under the Nursing Home’s Liability policy. The truth is that most Med-Mal policies specifically EXCLUDE any Medical Director responsibilities,
If you have ever had to purchase tail coverage for your medical malpractice insurance policy, you know how expensive and limited your options are. Tail can be very costly, usually double the expiring premium with your incumbent carrier. Now there are options for
Naturally, the practice of emergency medicine comes with higher risks than most specialties since most of the patients are being treated for emergency medical needs that can be serious or life-threatening. Due to the high-risk nature of emergency medicine, the cost
As a service to our clients and all physicians nation-wide, Diederich Healthcare has done an analysis of the medical malpractice payouts in 2011 as recorded by the National Practitioner Data Bank. Taking the data from the NPDB’s records, statistics were selected
