Clients
of American Re’s
catastrophic care service have seen their medical costs
plunge and the number of lawsuits against
them drop significantly over the past three
years, according to a recent study of 300
of the group’s cases.
That, Am Re says, reflects
its use of Best Doctors, a Boston entity
that screens doctors,
picks the best in their field, and then quickly
deploys them to troublesome or complex cases
to achieve better outcomes for patients. It
also leads to lowered medical costs and cuts
litigation expenses, according to Evan Falchuk
Best Doctors’ president.
Best
Doctors, whose lists have been seen in various
magazines on an annual basis for the past
few years, has created a large and proprietary
database of doctors who are peer-reviewed
anonymously by other doctors. Physicians
are polled as to which of their colleagues
are the best in certain specialties, and
those answers are compiled and sorted. Doctors
also can nominate other doctors to add to
the database. All told, only about 5% of
the U.S. physicians make the list. “We
can get very specific. If you have a certain
disease of the right ventricle, we can find
the five best doctors to treat it almost
instantly,“ said Mr. Falchuk.
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