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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!psuvax1!psuvm!dgs4
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:56:08 EST
- From: <DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <93023.115608DGS4@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Physician's incomes
- References: <1993Jan21.223258.841@walter.cray.com> <C1A2r3.9Lq@wpg.com>
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- In article <C1A2r3.9Lq@wpg.com>, russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) says:
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- >Nice anecdote, but is it true? It's surely not representative
- >of physicians as a whole. I don't have the latest figures,
- >but Louisiana's "high-risk" professionals (ob-gyn specialists) paid
- >an average of $16,400 apiece for malpractice coverage in 1987, a
- >sum that was considered stratospheric by Louisiana physicians in
- >other fields.
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- That's a little low (but not much) compared to other areas of the
- country, I think. I have the numbers from a recent study published
- in Health Affairs which I'll post tomorrow.
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- >We know that the average US physician _nets_ 160K per annum, or
- >thereabouts, after deducting the cost of doing business. Does
- >anybody have the latest figures on the average cost per physician
- >for malpractice insurance? Last time I checked the figures
- >showed that all liability costs including the sums paid by
- >hospitals and clinics, represented roughly 1 percent of the total
- >US health care budget.
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- Dennis G. Shea, Penn State
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