Fact & Fiction

Fact

New malpractice lawsuits have been filed in New York at effectively a flat rate for several years.

Fact

Awards in medical malpractice cases have risen at a rate equal to medical inflation.

Fact

New York has one of the highest number of physicians per capita in the country.

Fact

There is little to no discipline of physicians in New York State

Fact

The there is no recognition of the fact that the reimbursement rates provided by health insurance providers have dropped each year, drastically cutting into the financial well-being of hospitals and physicians

Fact

New York’s medical professionals protect (and subsidize the insurance for) the worst doctors in the state – those who are commercially uninsurable – allowing them to continue to practice while good doctors are forced to add the costs of that harm to their own insurance premiums.

Fact

If bad physicians stopped harming their patients, malpractice premiums would drop precipitously.

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