Doctors' Corporations Given FTCA Coverage

Earlier this year, the federal government lost an attempt to deny insurance coverage to doctors who -- in their capacity as sole owners of their own corporations -- signed contracts with the United States to provide health care to patients at a non-profit clinic. When the government attempted to tell the doctors -- after the doctors had been sued for malpractice -- that they were not eligible for coverage, the doctors fought back in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

12 minute read March 31, 2004 at 10:46 AM
By
Janice G. Inman
Doctors' Corporations Given FTCA Coverage

Earlier this year, the federal government lost an attempt to deny insurance coverage to doctors who — in their capacity as sole owners of their own corporations — signed contracts with the United States to provide health care to patients at a non-profit clinic.

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