Acute Care
Proposal was published this week in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, a journal for the American College of Emergency Physicians or ACEP.
Five new clinics opened in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens; per earnings call CVS Health will expand chronic disease services beyond diabetes.
A hospital in Trinity, Texas closed on August 1, and another in Crockett, Texas on July 1.
Areas with more primary care physicians have lower spending per beneficiary, better care, patient satisfaction and lower death rates, authors say.
Model allows a system to expand their presence without making major capital commitments, or having to locate huge parcels of land.
The low-cost hospitals with good outcomes are the ones that spend more when the patient is there, and less when they leave.
From 2015 to 2016, death rate for all of its hospitals dropped from 15 to 12 percent for severe sepsis/shock, 12 to 9 percent for all sepsis cases.
That's been beneficial to hospitals, which have seen reductions in uncompensated care and overall improved financial performance, analysis showed.
U.S. minorities tend to receive fewer medical services considered effective like flu shots, aspirin following heart attack, study author says.
The authors tout education as the most prudent means of addressing the issue.