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Doctors And Insurance Companies Case Summary

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MORALITY OF DOCTORS AND INSURANCE COMPANIES The case study analysis involves a major news station and their findings, “in October 24, 1999, MSNBC reported online that in a survey taken recently it brought to light that 169 physicians had admitted to lying in order to get care for patients”. Right away, we all felt that this was acceptable, common and almost expected. In this case study, these physicians said, “due to the tendency for insurance companies to deny care, they (the physicians) believed it was medically necessary, they had written false information on charts to get the treatments covered for patients who could not afford the care otherwise." We agreed that there was a need in 1999, today the need is even direr. “In the survey, more doctors admitted to …show more content…

If a doctor is worried that he might be missing something, he will likely order another test just to be sure. Due to the nature of the profession doctors are terrified of being sued for possibly missing something so they’ll often order batteries of unnecessary tests on patients and make unnecessary referrals in order to avoid lawsuits. It’s these unnecessary tests that drive up health care costs, not the direct cost of medical malpractice. This is hard to prove that no doctor has ever been sued simply for not ordering a test a patient wanted, but they can get sued for not ordering tests that would have detected a real problem because it is

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