Academy Responds to Crain’s on Liability Rates

In a published letter-to-the-editor of Crain’s Cleveland this week, President Paul Janicki MD counters that the “stabilized” medical liability rates reported for the state have had little effect on practicing physicians in NE Ohio. The original article, “Docs Find Relief at Last” cited insurance statistics and a representative of the state medical association making the case that medical liability rates have abated to the extent that Ohio is now a better place to practice medicine than in recent years. Dr. Janicki, however, offered insights into the “reality” of medicine in the Northern Ohio area. “Physicians in our region continue to lose ground in the struggle to pay medical liability rates. We continue to hear from our members that medical liability is still their number one expense and their number one practice issue,” he wrote. The efforts of organized medicine, he said, and particularly AMC/NOMA’s work to get meaningful dispute resolution legislation passed, would do more to bring the type of “relief” doctors in this area of the state need. To read the Academy’s response in Crain’s, click here