The Impact of State Medical Malpractice Reform on Individual-Level Health Care Expenditures.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Past studies of the impact of state-level medical malpractice reforms on health spending produced mixed findings. Particularly salient is the evidence gap concerning the effect of different types of malpractice reform. This study aims to fill the gap. It extends the literature by examining the general population, not a subgroup or a specific health condition, and controlling for individual-level sociodemographic and health status.

Methods

We merged the Database of State Tort Law Reforms with the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey between 1996 and 2012. We took a difference-in-differences approach to specify a two-part model for analyzing individual-level health spending. We applied the recycled prediction method and the bootstrapping technique to examining the diffe

SUBMITTER: Yu H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5682133 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature