Whether it’s wishful thinking or just poor planning, most of us don’t give much thought to preparing for a possible calamity. But life happens and an incident such as an automobile accident or slip and fall by a visitor in your home can leave you vulnerable to a substantial liability claim to your personal lines policy.

The federal Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) to address the opioid crisis was passed and signed in 2016 with bipartisan support. The passage of CARA included federal grants to help boost state databases that flag patients who may be overusing prescription drugs.

Healthcare Risk Management (HRM) week starts June 18, 2018. In preparation for the week, it is important to understand the role risk management plays in creating a safe and protected physician-patient relationship. 

We recently had the opportunity to sit down with four CAP members who care for and protect patients as well as clinicians by their expertise and their experience. They are all anesthesiologists who are also interventional pain management physicians.

When communicating with patients, a physician’s “custom and practice” as to what he or she advises is often an acceptable substitute for granular detail in a chart entry. But when the physician departs from his or her custom and practice, it’s easy for things to go wrong.