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MMIC Leverages Malpractice Claims Data to Improve Healthcare Delivery
Jan 26, 2016
In 2013, MMIC Group partnered with CRICO Strategies giving it the opportunity to examine its malpractice claims data with additional insight provided by CRICO’s 40 years of accumulated claims information. The result is a new project that will provide customers of MMIC and its sister companies across 16 states with actionable data pertaining to surgical malpractice cases.
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Webster M. (2016 January 26). MMIC Leverages Malpractice Claims Data to Improve Healthcare Delivery. MD News.
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