Medical Liability Insurance as a Barrier to the Provision of Abortion Services in Family Medicine

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ID11026417
AutoresChristine Dehlendorf (0000-0001-7303-5413, University of California, San Francisco), Christine E Dehlendorf (Christine E. Dehlendorf and Kevin Grumbach are with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Christine E. Dehlendorf is also with the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.), Kevin Grumbach (0000-0002-7809-214X, Christine E. Dehlendorf and Kevin Grumbach are with the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. Christine E. Dehlendorf is also with the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco.)
Ano2008
Volume98
Fascículo10
Páginas1770-1774
Data de publicação2008-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditoraAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2008.136325
PMID18703433
PMCIDPMC2636480
OpenAlexW1967803545
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências citadas20

Family physicians who wish to provide abortions have been subject to both denial of coverage by medical liability insurers and the imposition of large premium increases. These policy decisions by insurance companies raise questions about the role of family physicians in abortion care and about the autonomy of medical specialties in defining their scope of practice. We review the issues specific to abortion services in the primary care setting and examine the broader implications for the medical profession. Finally, we review how advocacy and improved regulation of the insurance industry could help to ensure that clinicians who are trained and willing to provide services to their patients are not limited by the decisions of medical liability insurers

Abortion · Actuarial science · Autonomy · Business · Denial · Family medicine · Insurance policy · Liability · Liability insurance · Political science · Pregnancy · Scope (computer science) · Finance · Healthcare Policy and Management · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Reproductive Health and Technologies