Sunday, March 1, 2015

Study Questions Potential Healthcare Savings Gained by Tort Reform | Atlanta Legal Examiner | Atlanta Georgia Personal Injury Lawyer

Study Questions Potential Healthcare Savings Gained by Tort Reform | Atlanta Legal Examiner | Atlanta Georgia Personal Injury Lawyer:

by M.Brandon Smith // Childers, Schlueter & Smith, LLC

"Although many proponents of tort reform believe that fear of malpractice lawsuits prompts physicians to order unnecessary tests and indirectly drives up medical costs, a Rand Corporation study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine found otherwise.

The study analyzed the experience of emergency room doctors in Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas after the states raised the burden of proof for malpractice lawsuits to gross negligence for emergency care, basically requiring that doctors knowingly provide improper care to a patient to be found liable. 


 Rand researchers analyzed more than three million Medicare claims for three metrics – how often ER physicians ordered advanced imaging studies, the rate of inpatient admissions following ER visits, and total charges for an ER visit, and compared the data to that of neighboring states with lower bars for malpractice lawsuits. The researchers found that only Georgia exhibited a small drop in charges per patient, and nothing else really changed, according to a Washington Post report. 

 Defensive Medicine

According to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), defensive medicine “occurs when doctors order tests, procedures, or visits, or avoid high-risk patients or procedures, primarily (but not necessarily or solely) to reduce their exposure to malpractice liability.” 


 Actions may be considered defensive medicine even if performed for legitimate reasons, such as a belief in a procedure’s effectiveness, a desire to reduce medical uncertainty, or a financial incentive, as long as the primary motive is to avoid malpractice risk. The motive need not be conscious, and some medical practices become so routine that physicians are oblivious to the fact that liability concerns originally motivated their use."



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1 comment:

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