Medical Malpractice Insurance News

The pandemic has permanently changed delivery of patient care, creating potential fallouts that may impact risk for New York State physicians.

A new in-house law firm, Mercado May-Skinner (M&M), will build on the standard of legal excellence MLMIC policyholders have come to expect and will continue to provide risk management advice, medical malpractice defense, legal analysis and related legal services.

In December 2017, New York State became the first in the nation to require that new registered nurses earn a baccalaureate degree or higher within 10 years of licensure. The new educational requirement does not affect nurses who are already in practice.

MLMIC’s Annual Risk Management Seminar features the foremost experts in the healthcare industry on current trends and topics essential to ongoing, effective risk management.

A new provision of Public Health Law Article 28 will allow hospital outpatient clinics and diagnostic treatment centers (D&Ts) to provide off-site primary care services that are ordinarily provided by the clinic or D&T.

Healthcare facilities and providers are encouraged to review the updated list of penalties for compliance purposes.

Hospitals should be aware that provider-based urgent care centers that are held out to the public as such will likely meet the definition of a “dedicated emergency department” and will be subject to full EMTALA compliance.

The latest edition of Dateline – the newsletter for MLMIC-insured physicians and facilities is available for reading on our website.

New requirements for hospitals caring for visually impaired patients went into effect October 20.

The latest edition of Dateline — the newsletter for MLMIC-insured physicians and facilities — has been published and is available for reading on our website.