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Free Clinics Medical Malpractice Coverage

The Free Clinics Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA) Medical Malpractice Program offers medical malpractice protection for qualified volunteer health care clinicians at sponsoring free clinics. The goal is to encourage health care providers to volunteer at free clinics by eliminating the barrier of costly malpractice coverage.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program is achieving its annual goal of the percentage of volunteer FTCA-deemed clinicians who meet certification and privileging requirements. In 2005, 100 percent of volunteer FTCA-deemed clinicians met certification and privileging requirements.
  • The program manages risk. The program has procedures in place to ensure that only providers with a relatively low risk of receiving a malpractice suit receive malpractice coverage. In addition, free clinics that sponsor health professionals are also required to maintain risk management systems.
  • The program's national impact is not known. It is not known how important FTCA coverage is in influencing health professionals' decisions to volunteer.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Modifying the program's original, renewal, and supplemental applications to ensure that data for measuring the program's impact can be collected.
  • Establishing baselines and targets for the program's long-term measures.

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