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| 9/7/2010 |
Study Says Malpractice Costs Less Than Imagined
(Undated) -- Costs connected to medical malpractice add less than three-percent to U.S. healthcare costs. That's the bottom line from a study published in the September issue of "Health Affairs." The total is much less than was proffered by many during the recent healthcare reform debate. Most of the additional expenses associated with medical malpractice are incurred through tests, procedures and treatments associated with defensive medicine. The study was done by a research team that included Atul A. Gawande, MD, of Harvard Medical School. Gawande noted that though medical malpractice costs are just a small part of total health care spending, quote, "the amount is not trivial." The study looked at figures from 2008, which showed that America's total outlay for health care that year was a whopping two-point-three trillion dollars. |
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