ABSTRACT
American Healthcare Systems has formed an excess liability insurance company for about 225 affiliated hospitals and more than 100 nursing homes. The alliance expects to protect members from wide swings in premiums, and to save money by cutting out the insurer middleman.
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Hospital Administration , Hospital Restructuring , Hospitals, Proprietary/organization & administration , Insurance, Liability/organization & administration , Multi-Institutional Systems/organization & administration , Bermuda , California , Hospitals , United StatesABSTRACT
Complaints from patients about dental treatment are on the increase internationally and especially in the USA. The Swedish system for dealing with patients' complaints embraces four different pathways which are described in this paper. One of those is a no-fault-compensation system, which is wholly separate from a procedure under the control of the Swedish licensing authority which deals exclusively with assessing professional negligence. A further, voluntary procedure for dealing with patient complaints is mediated by the Swedish Dental Association and its branches. The paper analyses the type and number of complaints and their assessment under the different procedures.
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Insurance, Liability/organization & administration , Malpractice , State Dentistry/organization & administration , Adult , Humans , Insurance Claim Review , Middle Aged , Peer Review , Societies, Dental/organization & administration , SwedenABSTRACT
During the insurance crisis of the 1970s, a handful of states established patient compensation funds to ensure providers access to insurance. Well, the funds are mature now. And for better or for worse, they have played key roles in how much the states' providers pay for medical malpractice premiums.
