Mar 04, 2024
Proactively Manage Patient Expectations With a Conditions of Treatment Agreement
Protect your practice with a plan to proactively manage challenging patient behaviors.
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Reducing Risk in Psychiatry Through Effective Medication Management
Medication regimens for psychiatric patients can be highly complex and involve a variety of drugs. Incorporating the medication management strategies outlined here can help psychiatrists keep patients safe.
Comprehensive Insurance and Risk Solutions for Hospitals and Healthcare Systems
The Doctors Company has over 40 years of expertise managing risk for many of the nation’s top 100 healthcare systems, hospitals, and managed care organizations, including multi-state and multi-specialty groups. Keep your hospital or healthcare system on the leading edge with risk sharing, streamlined administration, consolidated coverage, and enhanced reporting—all provided by seasoned insurance and risk financing professionals.
November 07, 2025, Risk & Insurance
The 2026 Executives to Watch: The Doctors Company’s Deepika Srivastava
Deepika Srivastava, Chief Operating Officer of The Doctors Company, has been named a 2026 Risk & Insurance Executive to Watch, an honor celebrating her innovative leadership. Deepika harnesses her 20 years of experience in medical malpractice insurance and technology to address the key challenges our members face and create modern, data-driven solutions.
March 16, 2022, Orlando Medical News
As Corporate Entities Enter Healthcare, Practices Can Respond via Patient-Centered Care
Richard E. Anderson, MD, FACP, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Doctors Company and TDC Group, discusses the involvement of large non-legacy corporate entities in healthcare and how it will impact how all clinicians provide healthcare.
Jun 05, 2025
To Call, or Not to Call? Collaborative Communication Across Medical Specialties
As medical knowledge sprints ahead, we can increase safety and manage clinician workload by collaborating with colleagues in other specialties to plan when, how, and why we refer and consult.
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In Today’s Healthcare Environment, What Differentiates the Best Doctors?
Ami Parekh, MD, JD, Chief Health Officer, Included Health, and Member, Board of Governors, The Doctors Company, Part of TDC Group, presents at the 2025 TDC Group Executive Advisory Board Meeting about what differentiates the best doctors in today's healthcare environment, including handling increased complexity and partnering with patients who come into appointments having already done their own research online.
Articles and Insights on Closing a Practice
A list of articles and expert insights on risk management issues to consider when closing a practice.
Before COVID-19, Outlier Medical Malpractice Verdicts Were Rising—What’s Next?
Severity—the average cost of a medical malpractice claim—continues its relentless increase. Though severity has been rising since at least the 1970s, in recent years we have seen a sharp increase in outlier verdicts, which exceed common policy limits and often set records for their venues. Before the pandemic, nearly all states had seen these extraordinarily large awards, but whether the pace of these awards will be affected by the pandemic is unknown. Some U.S. states have adopted limited liability protections for physicians during COVID-19, but those protections may be tested in the courts.
Laboratory and Diagnostic Test Tracking in Ambulatory Practice
Managing patient test results in ambulatory practices can pose a significant challenge. Establishing a standardized workflow to track results is a successful strategy for avoiding missed or delayed diagnosis that can lead to patient injury.
