title: Medical errors: the perspective of the insurer.
abstract: Errors in medicine have a significant impact upon the cost of health insurance in the United States. These errors may reflect a range of errors ranging from ineffective or futile care to inappropriate medical judgments to coding errors. These may be unintentional, but underlying all of these error-types is a failure of process stemming back to physician training. The commercial industries that pay for health insurance may be demanding a process approach and accountability structures in return for continued funding of health care services.
authors.affiliation: Edgewater Medical Consulting, Long Knife Court, Louisville, Kentucky 40207, USA. tjamesiii@aol.com
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: James
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee; D006801:Humans; D007342:Insurance Benefits; D007343:Insurance Carriers / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends*; D007344:Insurance Claim Reporting; D007348:Insurance, Health; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000191:economics; D007357:Insurance, Physician Services; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000145:classification