Acute Care
In Texas, freestanding EDs tend to be clustered around major metropolitan centers where median income is close to $92,000.
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September 18, 2017
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September 18, 2017
Can you spot service vulnerabilities that may put you at risk and signal the need for outside help from a professional services firm?
Most patients who are in the emergency department belong there and insurers should cover those visits, says the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Researchers used a national hospital database and evaluated almost 23 million adult hospital admissions in 162 hospitals across 44 states.
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.