Ambulatory Care

Patients, physicians and payers rely heavily on these overall ratings, which have climbed higher as self-reported scores have trended upward.

The Missouri-based health system will expand with more than 30 new co-branded facilities containing with smart glass rooms, transparent charting, mobile x-ray equipment.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights called for increased monitoring of psychiatric hospitals to ensure patient safety.

Even though high-deductible insurance options could save patients thousands of dollars every year, most people are not shopping around for better prices when it comes to low value services.

While 3-D mammography screening are FDA-approved, only about half of the National Cancer Institute's Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium participants offer the service.

Community-based nursing homes that participated in this project lowered CAUTI rates by 54 percent.

The software also helps such specialists operate more smoothly and meet government reporting requirements under MACRA and MIPS.

One patient got a $3,660 bill for a 4-mile ride. Another was charged $8,460 for a trip from one hospital that could not handle his case to another that could. Still another found herself marooned at an out-of-network hospital, where she'd been taken by ambulance without her consent.

Testing certain individuals instead of the patient population for diseases such as tuberculosis and hepatitis B and C, can be more cost-effective, the researchers said.

ACP says physicians and other healthcare professionals should work to address physician stress, burnout and organizational culture that may contribute to medical errors.