NYC Hospital Falling Between the Profitability Algorithms as Bronx Obstetricians Have Been Threatened With Non Renewal on Malpractice

As the article states below, 8 of the 13 received letters, so do we now have “cherry picking” starting for mal practice insurance like it exists for health insurance beginning? The 8 doctors specifically deal with high risk deliveries so go figure, here come the risk management assessments? So if they don’t have coverage, what’s next? Is this not all supposed to balance out and take the good with the bad?

This is what gets me, the bad guys or gals in the company’s wording” an unreasonable burden to other policy holders”. Good grief these doctors are probably seeing some of the most difficult deliveries and they are an unreasonable burden, enough to not make any doctor’s day! Who writes this stuff? From the website below it states that policyholders are owners so was this written by other doctors? Are peer to peer reviews dead at this hospital?

“MLMIC’s policyholders are owners, with full voting rights to elect the company’s Board of Directors, thereby having direct input into vital areas of operation.

Comprised primarily of practicing physicians, dentists, and hospital administrators, the governing Board’s members share their colleagues’ concerns and can make recommendations accordingly.”

IT’S THOSE COST ALGORITHMS ONCE AGAIN!

Obstetrics is a hard hit area to begin with all over and in some cities, due to the cost or non availability of mal practice insurance, good luck finding an OBGYN who is not already overbooked to the max. This also reminds me too of how doctors are rated when they look at death rates as the crunching of numbers never looks at the types of cases and patients they see as one group may see sicker patients than others. So here we go again with algorithms for dollars and forget the human care it seems. BD

NEW YORK — A malpractice insurance company has threatened not to renew coverage for eight Bronx obstetricians who treat poor, high-risk patients.

The New York Times reports that Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company issued the warning in a letter last month. It went out to eight of 13 obstetricians at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center.

The hospital delivers about 2,700 babies a year. Many of the patients are teenagers or have diabetes, high blood pressure or other medical problems.

The letter cited a "method of practice" among the doctors that made them "an unreasonable burden" to other policyholders.

NYC hospital obstetricians face insurance cutoff - WSJ.com