The average length of time for litigated cases is 5 years, do you have that kind of time?

 Dealing with healthcare issues can be a challenge, but you don't have to do it alone. 

Stoute Communications in Chicago offers, healthcare mediation in Chicago to hospitals, healthcare organizations, law firms for nursing home and long term care cases. The process includes facilitating conversations surrounding quality of care issues, and other pre-litigated disputes.

According to research published in the U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institute of Health , with the  steady rise of healthcare and medical malpractice insurance, there is a growing need for alternative dispute resolution services to resolve healthcare disputes. With the average length of time for litigated cases being 5 years, mediation is a great time savings and cost effective option.

Research assert that mediation boast 75% to 90% success in avoiding litigation which is a cost savings of $50,000 per claim, and 90% satisfaction rates among plaintiffs and defendants.

Type of Cases:

• Family disputes about healthcare decisions 
• Nursing Home & Other Long Term Care Disputes
• Hospital Disputes
• Physician Disputes
• Medical Billing Disputes
• Insurance Company Disputes

Advantages of Healthcare Mediation:

• Family members can feel heard and can decide on a resolution
• Majority of nursing home cases go to mediation
• Cost less than litigation 
• Parties have a place to be heard
• Great place to negotiate an agreed outcome
• Parties can communicate directly

Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal: Mediating in the Healthcare System Creative Problem Solving

https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1120&context=drlj

Arbitration and Mediation in the New Healthcare Universe

https://www.healthlawyers.org/Events/Programs/Materials/Documents/PHLI14/ff_benesch_drucker.pdf