Revenue per patient is a common way to split practice profit. It’s also the wrong way.
|Slideshows|April 17, 2019
- April 25, 2019 edition
- Volume 96
- Issue 8
90th annual Physician Report: How much doctors spend on malpractice insurance
Author(s)Medical Economics Staff
A slideshow with a breakdown of median annual premiums
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Cardiologists, internists, and family medicine physicians all saw slight increases in their malpractice premiums in 2018, with those in the Midwest seeing the biggest percentage bump. Practices with 11-25 physicians were more likely to see a larger increase than practices both smaller and larger.
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