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The danger that a "never event" can become an exposure against which hospitals cannot defend has some risk managers wondering whether hospitals will be bearing the brunt of strict liability in which juries have only to find that a tort happened.

The following practical steps in submitting healthcare insurance claims could save billions in costs.

A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded healthcare companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit research and publication organization that specializes in patient safety and healthcare risk management issues, dedicates a special section on its Web site to the new CMS Final Rule on Hospital-Acquired Conditions.

Here's the official press release from the CMS on how it will begin to handle the "never ever 11." Also, find links to updated pricing and quality information.

The CMS Hospital Compare tool allows you to compare the quality of care hospitals provide with information on certain medical conditions, surgical procedures and patient surveys.

Improving communication among doctors, nurses and patients can help reduce medical errors, but doing so sometimes means making sure that strategy triumphs over culture.

A listing of some of the nation's top publicly traded healthcare companies, their risk managers, brokers, captives and risk management programs.

For insurers, the long-term-care industry is a worthwhile risk again. Loss figures are down, so new capacity is rolling in. But some facilities believe they're better off living independently--risk management or not.

The best commercial brokers in the business know their customers sometimes better than customers know themselves. So, just who belongs to this vaunted group of middlemen and women for the healthcare industry? Find out the 2011 Power Broker® results.

Most brokers will provide a service to clients--for a fee, of course--but Power Brokers will do whatever it takes--and sometimes for free. The best commercial brokers in the business know their customers sometimes better than customers know themselves. So, just who belongs to this vaunted group of middlemen and women for the long-term healthcare industry? Find out the 2009 Power Broker results.

Healthcare risk management is in part driven by accreditation and certification standards, which in the United States are developed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, an independent, not-for-profit organization located in Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

ASHRM is the organization to participate in if you're a healthcare risk manager. RIMS is great for an overall risk management perspective, but, really, healthcare is its own separate universe--and a big one at that, with its own separate galaxies of acute care, senior care, ambulatory care, therapy, etc.--so it needs its own risk management institution to address its specific current issues and emerging risks.