Defensive medical care has become the order of recent times. Doctors want to play safe and well read patients are keen to know to do more tests to rule out any disease. Here is a bill to curb this.

                                                  Team@CMHF

Rep. Tom Price, MD (R-Georgia), has introduced a bill in Congress aimed at ending the need for doctors to practice defensive medicine.

The bill offers legal protections to healthcare providers who practice medicine consistent with best practice guidelines selected by the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after securing approval and endorsement by a physician specialty organization and a qualified physician consensus-building organization.

It also provides grants to states to use in creating administrative healthcare tribunals that would hear cases, but only after they are reviewed by an expert panel, and allows claims to be filed with state court after all administrative remedies have been exhausted.

Price, an orthopedic surgeon, said, “The practice of defensive medicine adds billions of dollars of unnecessary costs to our healthcare system and diverts doctors’ focus away from delivering quality care.”

Ref: http://www.modernmedicine.com/modernmedicine/Modern+Medicine+Now/Bill-seeks-to-end-practice-of-defensive-medicine/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/734949?contextCategoryId=40143