University Daily Kansan / Monday, August 29, 1988
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Brad West, Lawrence resident, competes in the guitar category of the Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championship. The event which took place yesterday afternoon in South Park, 12th and Massachusetts streets.
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By Terry Bauroth Kansan staff writer
Medical faculty say rising cost may affect program's quality.
Malpractice insurance soars
The rising costs of malpractice insurance could threaten the quality of education for doctors in residence at the University of Kansas Medical Center, D. Kaw Clayman, executive director for the Med Center, said Friday.
Last year, the malpractice insurance for all practicing faculty at the Med Center was $2.2 million. This year, the cost will be $3.9 million.
Of the 15 departments, 11 are insured by the St. Paul Insurance Co and four are insured by the Medical Protective Co, which reversed a
"There is increased pressure on clinical faculty to see more patients than on their expenses and increasing the number of cases said. "If we can't get some relief, we are in for some problems with recruitment members and with recruitment."
There are 15 clinical departments at the Med Center, one for each specialty. Each department has its own foundation. A portion of the professional fee charged for seeing patients is based on the foundation to pay for insurance costs.
Clawson, who also is a professor of surgery, said that the students had not experienced a difference in the classroom yet because doctors had been working longer hours to compensate for the increased costs.
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A percentage of the primary premium is charged to the doctors to create the stabilization fund. It steps in when the plaintiff is awarded more than the primary coverage allows for.
"Last year, the stabilization fund was an added 90 percent of the primary premium." Evans said. The fund was raised to 125 percent of the primary."
He said that enrollment in the field of obstetrics had not been affected vet.
Phillips said that obstetrics and gynecology patients in rural areas had to come to the city because family practitioners had dropped coverage in those areas because of increased malpractice rates.
"Some insurance is so high, the
*some* insurance to have work time on cases
to make money to pay insurance,
to handle them no time to teach." *Fay said*.
However, Richard G. Evans, president and chairman of the departing oncology, said, "Across the country, a number of people applying to medical school has declined in the last two years, because of issues like malpractice."
Kevin Phillips, chief resident in obstetrics and gynecology, said that his specialty had been hit hard by malpractice insurance and that he and others in his field were extremely concerned.
Although residents are self- insured by the state, they too will be faced with increasing malpractice rates when on their own.
Fay said that if the fund was phased out, many doctors would not be able to obtain insurance. And if the insurance would be at a higher rate.
Ted Fay Jr., spokesman for the Kansas insurance commission, said the Med Center faced some very difficult cases because of the increase in rates.
Clawson said that the governor had formed a legislative interim committee to try to find a solution.
One option, Evans said, would be to phase out the stabilization fund.
former decision by pledging to write new policies in Kansas after the state insurance commissioner said the company could increase its pre-remainance 330% percent. The fear remains the St. Paul also will increase rates.
Among the options being discussed was a partnership between the state and faculty, in which the state would self insure full-time faculty for prisons or physicians would continue to pay for the stabilization fund, Clawson said.
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