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2. Medical malpractice in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Doctors' groups, patients, and insurance companies have criticized medical malpractice litigation as expensive, adversarial, unpredictable, and inefficient. They claim that the cost of medical malpractice litigation in the United States has steadily increased at almost 12 percent annually since 1975. [26]

3. Medical malpractice payouts are ballooning—and insurers are ...

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   From 2013 to 2023, the American court system saw a roughly 67% increase in the number of medical malpractice verdicts awarding $10 million or more.Last year, more than half of these verdicts ...

4. 7 Best and Worst States for Individual Health-Insurance ... - AOL

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   7 Best and Worst States for Individual Health-Insurance Premiums. ... While the national average monthly premium per person was $215, the prices were all over the place, from a high of $437 in ...

5. Non-economic damages caps - Wikipedia

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   Within the United States, the impact of damages caps on the number of malpractice claims paid out by insurance companies varies by state and, in many states, reviews of malpractice premiums following the implementation of damages caps showed that the caps had no effect on premiums. [12]

6. Malpractice Insurance Prices Are Stopping Small Clinics From ...

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   Even in states where laws protect minors’ access to gender-affirming care, malpractice insurance premiums are keeping small and independent clinics from treating patients.

7. Defensive medicine - Wikipedia

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   Defensive medicine is a reaction to the rising costs of malpractice insurance premiums and patients’ biases on suing for missed or delayed diagnosis or treatment but not for being overdiagnosed. Physicians in the United States are at highest risk of being sued, and overtreatment is common. The number of lawsuits against physicians in the USA ...

8. Health care prices in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The U.S. government intervenes less actively to force down prices in the United States than in other countries. Stanford economist Victor Fuchs wrote in 2014: "If we turn the question around and ask why healthcare costs so much less in other high-income countries, the answer nearly always points to a larger, stronger role for government.

9. These states have the highest health care costs - AOL

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   Story at a glance Five of the top 10 most expensive states were in the eastern portion of the United States. Louisiana was the second most expensive state for health care. Michigan had the ...