The Medical Malpractice Trap with Managed Care

Medical Malpractice and Managed Care Organizations: the Implied Warranty of Quality

With the advent of managed health care, medical malpractice law is once again seizing the public’s attention. The prime targets in the new malpractice litigation are often not only doctors, but also the corporations that pay them. Generically referred to as managed care organizations (“MCOs”), these entities include health maintenance organizations (“HMOs”), preferred provider organizations (“P...

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Managed Health Care Effects: Medical Care Costs

MANAGED HEALTH CARE EFFECTS: MEDICAL CARE COSTS AND ACCESS TO HEALTH INSURANCE

THE MEDICAL MALPRACTICE STANDARD OF CARE : HMOs AND CUSTOMARY PRACTICE *

* Work on this Article was supported by grant number HS 01539 from the National Center for Health Services Research, United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. ** Research Attorney, Program on Legal Issues in Health Care, Duke University. A.B. 1968, University of Chicago; J.D. 1971, Harvard Law School. THE FOLLOWING CITATIONS WILL BE USED IN THIS ARTICLE: A. HOLDER, MEDICAL MALP...

Medical malpractice.

Few issues in health care spark as much ire and angst as medical-malpractice litigation. Physicians revile malpractice claims as random events that visit unwarranted expense and emotional pain on competent, hardworking practitioners. Commentators lament the “lawsuit lottery,” which provides windfalls for some patients, but no compensation for the vast majority of patients injured by medical car...