Acute Care
Providers, researchers, hospital leaders are expected to use the reports to help raise awareness on health disparities, develop interventions.
Spending levels on children have swelled more than $83 billion in the last two decades, AMA pediatrics journal says.
An estimated 5,000 refugees live within 3 miles of San Antonio's medical center.
Lowest performing hospitals before passage of the Affordable Care Act showed biggest improvement after being penalized, researchers say.
Some physicians are concerned moving the surgeries out of hospitals will land vulnerable patients in the emergency room with pain, complications.
In the past 20 years, the rate of hospitalization among seniors that is related to opioid overuse has quintupled.
Eliminating the waiting room sends the message that the hospital is waiting for the patients, not the other way around, said Feinberg.
Patients sometimes find an additional charge, generally between $30 and $200, tacked onto their bill for visiting overnight.
Patients experienced more than 3 million fewer of these adverse events during that period.
The high-need population is older, has lower levels of education and income and includes more women and African Americans.