BACKGROUND Iatrogenic facial nerve paralysis is a devastating surgical complication that occasionally results in litigation. OBJECTIVE To analyze litigation trends to better understand the causes and outcomes of suits involving facial nerve paralysis to prevent future litigation and improve physician education. DESIGN Retrospective review. SETTING All US civil trials. PARTICIPANTS All s...

INTRODUCTION The American health care system is in a period of historic change that is certain to impact all health care professions and provider organizations. These changes are the result of the rapid transition from a delivery system based on indemnity insurance that pays submitted charges to individual physicians, pharmacists, and hospitals to one that is founded on capitated contracts with...

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OBJECTIVE Up to 50% of pregnancies are unintended in the United States, and the healthcare costs associated with pregnancy are the most expensive among hospitalized conditions. The current study aims to assess Medicaid spending on various methods of contraception and on pregnancy care including unintended pregnancies. METHODS We analyzed Medicaid health claims data from 2004 to 2010. Women 14...

BACKGROUND Informal patient payments for healthcare are common in the Western Balkans, negatively affecting public health and healthcare. AIM To identify literature from the Western Balkans on what is known about informal patient payments and bought and brought goods, to examine their effects on healthcare and to determine what actions can be taken to tackle these payments. METHODS After co...

Relationships between Payments Received and Farm Household Well-Being Government payments to farmers increased from about $7.5 billion in 1996—the year the “Freedom to Farm” bill was enacted—to over $20 billion in 1999, 2000, and 2001. This increase stemmed from a drop in agricultural prices, which spurred a dramatic growth in emergency market assistance payments and loan deficiency payments (s...

It is a pleasure to be with you this morning and to add my welcome to this very important conference on the payments system being hosted by the Federal Reserve's Payments System Development Committee. The name of the conference--The Payments System in Transition--captures not only the state of the financial services that we all use to make payments, but also the expectations of many payments sy...

In this paper, we consider the problem of optimal reinsurance design, when risk is measured by TrTVaR measure. We study models from perspectives both insurers and reinsurers. To reduce ex-post moral hazard, assume that contracts satisfy principle indemnity incentive-compatible constraint. When losses an insurer a reinsurer are measures, obtain explicit forms Pareto-optimal under expected value ...

Background: Health inequalitymonitoring especially in Health care financing field is very important. Hence, this study tends to assess the inequality in household's capacity to pay and out-of-pocket health carepaymentsin Tehran metropolis. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in 2013.Thestudy population was selected by stratified cluster sampling, and they constitute the typical...