Danzon, Patricia M. - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1339-1404). 2000
incentives for physicians to practice defensive medicine and incentives for plaintiffs and defendants to invest in litigation … percent of total health care costs. There are no comprehensive estimates of defensive medicine costs; in any case such costs … positive. Nevertheless, reforms designed to reduce inappropriate compensation and deter excessive litigation and defensive …