Full Disclosure: The Search for Medical Error Transparency

Summary While rising health care insurance costs have been at the center of attention for decades in America, a change is coming.....and it's not the one you know about or expect. Back in 1987, Dr. Steve S. Kraman, then the chief of staff of the Lexington, Kentucky Veterans Affairs hospital, began admitting errors up front and negotiating with the families for fair payments and over the next 16 years its average payout per case was only $16,000. The reason the approach worked, Kraman said, is that grieving families are more interested in an acknowledgment of their suffering by the hospital than in filing suit. View more details

Full Disclosure: The Search for Medical Error Transparency

Directed : Lawrence Kraman

Written : Lawrence Kraman

Stars : Unknown

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Genres : History Documentary News

Release date : Jun 23, 2023

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Summary While rising health care insurance costs have been at the center of attention for decades in America, a change is coming.....and it's not the one you know about or expect. Back in 1987, Dr. Steve S. Kraman, then the chief of staff of the Lexington, Kentucky Veterans Affairs hospital, began admitting errors up front and negotiating with the families for fair payments and over the next 16 years its average payout per case was only $16,000. The reason the approach worked, Kraman said, is that grieving families are more interested in an acknowledgment of their suffering by the hospital than in filing suit. View more details

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Genres : History Documentary News

Release date : Jun 23, 2023

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

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Stolen Seas

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