Hospital administrators estimate one-third of healthcare costs are the result of tests and treatments that aren’t medically necessary and ordered to prevent lawsuits, according to a new survey by ...

Individual states have been addressing the problem of medical malpractice lawsuits in different ways with varying degrees of success. Because medical malpractice premiums are skyrocketing, doctors ...

More than three-fourths of neurosurgeons practice some form of defensive medicine out of fear of malpractice lawsuits, according to an article in the February issue of Neurosurgery, the official ...

When the topic of controlling healthcare costs comes up, those opposed to single payer reform, and, for that matter, opposed to the Affordable Care Act, frequently cite the need for malpractice reform ...

What's the Difference Between 'Careful' Medicine and Defensive Medicine? Some years ago, the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment defined defensive medicine as: "When doctors order tests, ...

A study conducted by the University of Connecticut Health Center and the Massachusetts Medical Society showed that the cost of defensive medicine — tests, procedures, referrals, hospitalizations, or ...