Population Health
Injuries that brought a patient to the emergency room were most likely to have involved steps or stairs, according to the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System, a resource maintained by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. According to their recent data, which concerned the year 2014, 1.14 million trips to the ER involved the common household fixture.
A new report from the Center for Improving Value in Health Care reveals significant variation in payments in Colorado for hip and knee replacements between private health insurance payers and Medicare: Coloradans with private insurance in the northeast pay $55,000 more than their neighbors with Medicare, while those in Denver pay $17,000 over Medicare prices.
In Baltimore's poorer neighborhoods, where problems are plentiful and solutions scarce, Total Health Care strives to correct disparities in access and treatment long faced by people who struggle to get by.
The Baltimore health system put Robert Peace back together after a car crash shattered his pelvis. Then it nearly killed him, he says.
Dr. Samuel Ross had been CEO of Bon Secours Health System for three months when he went to a dinner party in 2006 and first heard the name some Baltimoreans use for the hospital.
10 hospital outreach programs have been recognized for their unique approaches to helping underserved communities around the country with national Hospital Charitable Services awards from Jackson Healthcare. The winning programs got equal shares of $100,000 of unrestricted funds offered through the Hospital Charitable Services Awards, Jackson Healthcare said in a statement.
A new study on death rates and readmissions suggests that when it comes to treating older men for heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia, veterans' hospitals compare well with others.
The Greater New York Hospital Association is pitching a $2.5 billion plan they say will ensure the financially distressed safety net hospitals throughout the state survive by paying the larger healthcare providers to integrate them into their own systems.
In a recent study, Truven Health Analytics found more than a $10,000 price variation in bundled spending for knee and hip replacement, depending on geography.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced access to preferred cost-sharing pharmacies has improved, with the bottom 10 percent of plans so far this year offering access within two miles of 71 percent of urban beneficiaries. That's compared to 40 percent of beneficiaries who had similar geographic access in 2014.