Quality and Safety
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More than 7 percent of the Medicare budget is spent on managing patients with end-stage renal disease.
Hospitals that kept costs the lowest used data to get a full picture of options, did benchmark pricing against peers, and got buy-in from surgical staff on the effort.
When practices merge, duplication and miscommunication can be unhappy side effects that have negative consequences for both finances and clinical quality. Here are missteps to avoid.
Those results add to evidence showing support for social service programs can improve community health outcomes and reduce healthcare spending.
Being forced to provide inferior care due to the patient's immigration status was a significant burden to the clinicians.
As the 2019 transition approaches, finding expertise to support changing payment models will become more difficult, and likely expensive.
Even necessary distractions from treating patients, which happen as often as 10 times every hour, trigger stress for doctors and nurses alike.
The core element of the model is that the same physician provides care for patients in the clinic as well as in the hospital.
Surprise: Drug-resistant staph infections cost the same or slightly less to treat than non-resistant infections, study shows.