Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on May 29, 2008 - 8:07am.
No. This is completely useless information serving only to further break down the traditional relationship of trust between a physician and patient. The only "reason" for doing this would be to suggest to patients that they might not want to go to a particular physician because he/she is bad as evidenced by one or more payments on claims. This is completely fallacious as there are a myriad of reasons why physicians would pay a claim other than as an admission of professional misconduct. This misleading and out of context information would in fact serve no valid purpose whatsoever. The only information that might make some sense would be providing information resulting from an independent investigation by the medical board but that information is also suspect given political intrigues such as those that prompt the board to want to post "malpractice" payments.
No. This is completely
No. This is completely useless information serving only to further break down the traditional relationship of trust between a physician and patient. The only "reason" for doing this would be to suggest to patients that they might not want to go to a particular physician because he/she is bad as evidenced by one or more payments on claims. This is completely fallacious as there are a myriad of reasons why physicians would pay a claim other than as an admission of professional misconduct. This misleading and out of context information would in fact serve no valid purpose whatsoever. The only information that might make some sense would be providing information resulting from an independent investigation by the medical board but that information is also suspect given political intrigues such as those that prompt the board to want to post "malpractice" payments.