Enterprise Liability, Risk Pooling, and Diagnostic Care

Enterprise liability, risk pooling and diagnostic care

Enterprise Liability and the Emerging Managed Health Care System

“Enterprise medical liability” is a term used to describe a system in which health care organizations bear responsibility for medical malpractice in addition to or instead of individual health professionals. Enterprise liability is in many senses a natural outgrowth of the increasing dependence of medical practice on institutional resources and expertise.2 Proposals for enterprise liability sur...

Resuscitating Hospital Enterprise Liability

No tort reform has more potential to improve the quality of medical care and to reduce the frequency of patient injuries than exclusive hospital enterprise liability. Hospital enterprise liability would make hospitals liable for all patient injuries occurring in the hospital that are the product of provider negligence, regardless of the independent contractor status of the providers. In its “ex...

Risk Pooling in Health Care Finance

Pooling is the health system function whereby collected health revenues are transferred to purchasing organisations. Pooling ensures that the risk related to financing health interventions is borne by all the members of the pool and not by each contributor individually. Its main purpose is to share the financial risk associated with health interventions for which there is uncertain need. The pu...

Enterprise Liability and the Economic Analysis