New South Florida Business Formed to Protect Mental Health Professionals From Risk of Lawsuit

Practicing medicine today presents many challenges for health care professionals, including the threat of lawsuits. This threat looms not only for doctors involved in treating the body, but also for doctors involved in treating the mind and other mental health professionals. As a result, Larry Benovitz, M.D., L.H.R.M., has formed Strategic Risk Management. The goal of this new business is to provide risk management for psychiatrists, psychologists and others involved in the mental health field.

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (PRWEB) May 2, 2003 -- Practicing medicine today presents many challenges for health care professionals, including the threat of lawsuits. This threat looms not only for doctors involved in treating the body, but also for doctors involved in treating the mind and other mental health professionals. As a result, Larry Benovitz, M.D., L.H.R.M., has formed Strategic Risk Management. The goal of this new business is to provide risk management for psychiatrists, psychologists and others involved in the mental health field.
   
Dr. Benovitz has been in private psychiatric practice for 22 years. His areas of specialization include psychopharmacology, geriatric psychiatry, schizophrenia, affective disorder, anxiety, adjustment, and somatoform disorder. Under his direction, Strategic Risk Management will help doctors and professionals negotiate the challenges of risk management. SRMs goal is to help clients reduce their liability to lawsuits and other challenges.
   
Malpractice insurance carriers, managed care carve-outs, hospitals, long term care facilities, group practices, doctors in private practice and other mental health professionals can all benefit from the services offered by Strategic Risk Management. Dr. Benovitz can visit offices to review procedures that can reduce risk and liability, or address these topics with large groups in a seminar format. In fact, psychologists, social workers and other therapists can receive continuing education credits through seminars with Dr. Benovitz. His sessions are approved for CEUs by the Florida Board of Psychology and the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling.
   
A board certified psychiatrist and licensed healthcare risk manager, Dr. Benovitz is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, Florida Psychiatric Society and American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. He is also an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry with Nova Southeastern Universitys College of Osteopathic Medicine. In addition to his private practice experience, he has extensive forensic psychiatry experience, has served as a case reviewer for numerous independent medical review companies and an advisor for Medicare and Medicaid programs.
   
For more information on Strategic Risk Management call 305-957-1977.    

Editors Note: Media outlets seeking comment on various mental health issues can contact Dr. Benovitz. He is available to address topics relating to general psychiatry, geriatric mental health issues, and other related topics, including risk management and the liability exposures faced by professionals.