Ambulatory Care
Hospitals say they fear violating government decree that hospitals can't "specify or otherwise limit" patient's choice, but are not prohibited from advising on quality of facilities.
Patients experienced more than 3 million fewer of these adverse events during that period.
The new models often require practices to take on downside financial risk, which is a lot to ask of an organization with scant resources.
Over the past three years, the sprawling VA system has come under fire from Congress because veterans were waiting too long to see a doctor.
A slight minority, 48 percent, anticipate a positive financial impact on their practice.
Approximately three-quarters of healthcare and hospital systems ask for payment at the time services are provided.
49 percent say they "often or always" experience feelings of burnout, would not recommend a career in medicine to their children.
There were only 130 of them in 2006, but by 2012 there were 1,400 nationwide; third of population lives within 10 minutes of one.
Ranks of uninsured could swell by millions if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, hospitals must take steps to protect reimbursements, experts say.
Specially trained paramedics are dispatched to the scene, have learned to identify problems, intervene and de-escalate the situation.