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Accrued Professional Liability (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Health Care Organizations [Abstract] |
Schedule of Accrued Professional Liability | The activity related to the Company’s total accrued professional liability for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012 is as follows (in thousands):
|  | Years Ended December 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
Balance at beginning of year |  | $ | 158,691 |  |  | $ | 137,036 |  |  | $ | 122,847 |
Provision (adjustment) for losses related to: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Current year |  |  | 39,386 |  |  |  | 41,235 |  |  |  | 35,441 |
Prior years |  |  | (16,125 | ) |  |  | (8,100 | ) |  |  | (8,119 | )
Total provision for losses |  |  | 23,261 |  |  |  | 33,135 |  |  |  | 27,322 |
Claim payments related to: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Current year |  |  | (293 | ) |  |  | (741 | ) |  |  | (569 | )
Prior years |  |  | (13,290 | ) |  |  | (10,739 | ) |  |  | (12,564 | )
Total payments |  |  | (13,583 | ) |  |  | (11,480 | ) |  |  | (13,133 | )
Balance at end of year |  | $ | 168,369 |  |  | $ | 158,691 |  |  | $ | 137,036 |

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