Information on Nursing Malpractice

Many Texas health care providers link the high cost of health care to the rising cost of medical malpractice insurance, which in turn is linked to lawsuits. Legislators have heard from many health care providers who say they must have relief from the rising cost of medical malpractice insurance if they are to continue to practice medicine in Texas.

Soaring medical malpractice premiums combined with low Medicaid reimbursement rates could result in such significant financial losses to nursing homes that they would be forced into bankruptcy, jeopardizing long-term care for thousands of senior and disabled Texans, particularly those on Medicaid.x

Medical malpractice statistics for the USA 2003. According to 2003 Annual Report, National Practitioner Data Bank, US DHHS: 16,339 nurses and nursing-related practitioners had a malpractice report made against them in the US 1990-2003; Nurses and nursing-related practitioners had an average of 1.11 malpractice reports made against each of them.