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Hospital Costs
The expenses incurred by a hospital in providing care. The hospital costs attributed to a particular patient care episode include the direct costs plus an appropriate proportion of the overhead for administration, personnel, building maintenance, equipment, etc. Hospital costs are one of the factors which determine HOSPITAL CHARGES (the price the hospital sets for its services).
Costs and Cost Analysis
Absolute, comparative, or differential costs pertaining to services, institutions, resources, etc., or the analysis and study of these costs.
Health Care Costs
The actual costs of providing services related to the delivery of health care, including the costs of procedures, therapies, and medications. It is differentiated from HEALTH EXPENDITURES, which refers to the amount of money paid for the services, and from fees, which refers to the amount charged, regardless of cost.
Economics, Hospital
Economic aspects related to the management and operation of a hospital.
Length of Stay
The period of confinement of a patient to a hospital or other health facility.
Cost Allocation
The assignment, to each of several particular cost-centers, of an equitable proportion of the costs of activities that serve all of them. Cost-center usually refers to institutional departments or services.
Hospital Charges
The prices a hospital sets for its services. HOSPITAL COSTS (the direct and indirect expenses incurred by the hospital in providing the services) are one factor in the determination of hospital charges. Other factors may include, for example, profits, competition, and the necessity of recouping the costs of uncompensated care.
Cost Control
The containment, regulation, or restraint of costs. Costs are said to be contained when the value of resources committed to an activity is not considered excessive. This determination is frequently subjective and dependent upon the specific geographic area of the activity being measured. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
Hospitals, University
Hospitals maintained by a university for the teaching of medical students, postgraduate training programs, and clinical research.
Cost of Illness
The personal cost of acute or chronic disease. The cost to the patient may be an economic, social, or psychological cost or personal loss to self, family, or immediate community. The cost of illness may be reflected in absenteeism, productivity, response to treatment, peace of mind, or QUALITY OF LIFE. It differs from HEALTH CARE COSTS, meaning the societal cost of providing services related to the delivery of health care, rather than personal impact on individuals.
Hospitals, Teaching
Hospitals engaged in educational and research programs, as well as providing medical care to the patients.
Drug Costs
The amount that a health care institution or organization pays for its drugs. It is one component of the final price that is charged to the consumer (FEES, PHARMACEUTICAL or PRESCRIPTION FEES).
Cost-Benefit Analysis
A method of comparing the cost of a program with its expected benefits in dollars (or other currency). The benefit-to-cost ratio is a measure of total return expected per unit of money spent. This analysis generally excludes consideration of factors that are not measured ultimately in economic terms. Cost effectiveness compares alternative ways to achieve a specific set of results.
Diagnosis-Related Groups
A system for classifying patient care by relating common characteristics such as diagnosis, treatment, and age to an expected consumption of hospital resources and length of stay. Its purpose is to provide a framework for specifying case mix and to reduce hospital costs and reimbursements and it forms the cornerstone of the prospective payment system.
Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over
Hospital Bed Capacity
The number of beds which a hospital has been designed and constructed to contain. It may also refer to the number of beds set up and staffed for use.
Hospital Planning
Areawide planning for hospitals or planning of a particular hospital unit on the basis of projected consumer need. This does not include hospital design and construction or architectural plans.
Hospitalization
The confinement of a patient in a hospital.
Cost Savings
Reductions in all or any portion of the costs of providing goods or services. Savings may be incurred by the provider or the consumer.
Insurance, Health, Reimbursement
Payment by a third-party payer in a sum equal to the amount expended by a health care provider or facility for health services rendered to an insured or program beneficiary. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)
Hospitals, Urban
Hospitals located in metropolitan areas.
Direct Service Costs
Costs which are directly identifiable with a particular service.
Hospitals, General
Large hospitals with a resident medical staff which provides continuous care to maternity, surgical and medical patients.
Financial Management, Hospital
The obtaining and management of funds for hospital needs and responsibility for fiscal affairs.
Retrospective Studies
Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.
United States
Insurance, Hospitalization
Health insurance providing benefits to cover or partly cover hospital expenses.
Models, Economic
Statistical models of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, as well as of financial considerations. For the application of statistics to the testing and quantifying of economic theories MODELS, ECONOMETRIC is available.
Intermediate Care Facilities
Institutions which provide health-related care and services to individuals who do not require the degree of care which hospitals or skilled nursing facilities provide, but because of their physical or mental condition require care and services above the level of room and board.
Hospitals, Proprietary
Hospitals owned and operated by a corporation or an individual that operate on a for-profit basis, also referred to as investor-owned hospitals.
Medicare
Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XVIII-Health Insurance for the Aged, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, that provides health insurance benefits to persons over the age of 65 and others eligible for Social Security benefits. It consists of two separate but coordinated programs: hospital insurance (MEDICARE PART A) and supplementary medical insurance (MEDICARE PART B). (Hospital Administration Terminology, AHA, 2d ed and A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, US House of Representatives, 1976)
Nursing Staff, Hospital
Personnel who provide nursing service to patients in a hospital.
Accounting
System of recording financial transactions.
Hospitalists
Physicians who are employed to work exclusively in hospital settings, primarily for managed care organizations. They are the attending or primary responsible physician for the patient during hospitalization.
Patient Admission
The process of accepting patients. The concept includes patients accepted for medical and nursing care in a hospital or other health care institution.
Ancillary Services, Hospital
Those support services other than room, board, and medical and nursing services that are provided to hospital patients in the course of care. They include such services as laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and physical therapy services.
Hospitals, Pediatric
Special hospitals which provide care for ill children.
Economic Competition
The effort of two or more parties to secure the business of a third party by offering, usually under fair or equitable rules of business practice, the most favorable terms.
Prospective Studies
Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.
Hospitals, District
Government-controlled hospitals which represent the major health facility for a designated geographic area.
Patient Readmission
Subsequent admissions of a patient to a hospital or other health care institution for treatment.
Hospitals, Special
Hospitals which provide care for a single category of illness with facilities and staff directed toward a specific service.
Multi-Institutional Systems
Institutional systems consisting of more than one health facility which have cooperative administrative arrangements through merger, affiliation, shared services, or other collective ventures.
Critical Pathways
Schedules of medical and nursing procedures, including diagnostic tests, medications, and consultations designed to effect an efficient, coordinated program of treatment. (From Mosby's Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, 4th ed)
Recovery Room
Hospital unit providing continuous monitoring of the patient following anesthesia.
Operating Rooms
Facilities equipped for performing surgery.
Health Resources
Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services.
Inpatients
Persons admitted to health facilities which provide board and room, for the purpose of observation, care, diagnosis or treatment.
Ownership
The legal relation between an entity (individual, group, corporation, or-profit, secular, government) and an object. The object may be corporeal, such as equipment, or completely a creature of law, such as a patent; it may be movable, such as an animal, or immovable, such as a building.
Economics, Medical
Economic aspects of the field of medicine, the medical profession, and health care. It includes the economic and financial impact of disease in general on the patient, the physician, society, or government.
Bed Occupancy
A measure of inpatient health facility use based upon the average number or proportion of beds occupied for a given period of time.
Surgical Procedures, Elective
Surgery which could be postponed or not done at all without danger to the patient. Elective surgery includes procedures to correct non-life-threatening medical problems as well as to alleviate conditions causing psychological stress or other potential risk to patients, e.g., cosmetic or contraceptive surgery.
Health Facility Closure
The closing of any health facility, e.g., health centers, residential facilities, and hospitals.
Hospitals, Private
A class of hospitals that includes profit or not-for-profit hospitals that are controlled by a legal entity other than a government agency. (Hospital Administration Terminology, AHA, 2d ed)
Time Factors
Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.
Patient Discharge
The administrative process of discharging the patient, alive or dead, from hospitals or other health facilities.
Emergency Service, Hospital
Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of immediate medical or surgical care to the emergency patient.
Models, Econometric
The application of mathematical formulas and statistical techniques to the testing and quantifying of economic theories and the solution of economic problems.
Prospective Payment System
A system wherein reimbursement rates are set, for a given period of time, prior to the circumstances giving rise to actual reimbursement claims.
Health Expenditures
The amounts spent by individuals, groups, nations, or private or public organizations for total health care and/or its various components. These amounts may or may not be equivalent to the actual costs (HEALTH CARE COSTS) and may or may not be shared among the patient, insurers, and/or employers.
Intensive Care Units
Hospital units providing continuous surveillance and care to acutely ill patients.
Academic Medical Centers
Medical complexes consisting of medical school, hospitals, clinics, libraries, administrative facilities, etc.
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure).
Postoperative Complications
Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.
Hospitals, Community
Institutions with permanent facilities and organized medical staff which provide the full range of hospital services primarily to a neighborhood area.
Cost Sharing
Provisions of an insurance policy that require the insured to pay some portion of covered expenses. Several forms of sharing are in use, e.g., deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Cost sharing does not refer to or include amounts paid in premiums for the coverage. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
Utilization Review
An organized procedure carried out through committees to review admissions, duration of stay, professional services furnished, and to evaluate the medical necessity of those services and promote their most efficient use.
Cross Infection
Any infection which a patient contracts in a health-care institution.
Hospital Departments
Major administrative divisions of the hospital.
Health Services Research
The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
Quality of Health Care
The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Special hospitals which provide care to the mentally ill patient.
Ambulatory Surgical Procedures
Surgery performed on an outpatient basis. It may be hospital-based or performed in an office or surgicenter.
Hospital Units
Those areas of the hospital organization not considered departments which provide specialized patient care. They include various hospital special care wards.
Hospital Records
Compilations of data on hospital activities and programs; excludes patient medical records.
Surgical Procedures, Operative
Operations carried out for the correction of deformities and defects, repair of injuries, and diagnosis and cure of certain diseases. (Taber, 18th ed.)
Infant, Newborn
An infant during the first month after birth.
Regression Analysis
Procedures for finding the mathematical function which best describes the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. In linear regression (see LINEAR MODELS) the relationship is constrained to be a straight line and LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS is used to determine the best fit. In logistic regression (see LOGISTIC MODELS) the dependent variable is qualitative rather than continuously variable and LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS are used to find the best relationship. In multiple regression, the dependent variable is considered to depend on more than a single independent variable.
Risk Factors
An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.
Laryngeal Diseases
Pathological processes involving any part of the LARYNX which coordinates many functions such as voice production, breathing, swallowing, and coughing.
Quality-Adjusted Life Years
A measurement index derived from a modification of standard life-table procedures and designed to take account of the quality as well as the duration of survival. This index can be used in assessing the outcome of health care procedures or services. (BIOETHICS Thesaurus, 1994)
Equipment and Supplies, Hospital
Any materials used in providing care specifically in the hospital.
Treatment Outcome
Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.
Databases, Factual
Extensive collections, reputedly complete, of facts and data garnered from material of a specialized subject area and made available for analysis and application. The collection can be automated by various contemporary methods for retrieval. The concept should be differentiated from DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC which is restricted to collections of bibliographic references.
Efficiency, Organizational
The capacity of an organization, institution, or business to produce desired results with a minimum expenditure of energy, time, money, personnel, materiel, etc.
Libraries, Hospital
Information centers primarily serving the needs of hospital medical staff and sometimes also providing patient education and other services.
Managed Care Programs
Health insurance plans intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. The programs may be provided in a variety of settings, such as HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS and PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS.
Cohort Studies
Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics.
Vascular Surgical Procedures
Operative procedures for the treatment of vascular disorders.
Risk Adjustment
The use of severity-of-illness measures, such as age, to estimate the risk (measurable or predictable chance of loss, injury or death) to which a patient is subject before receiving some health care intervention. This adjustment allows comparison of performance and quality across organizations, practitioners, and communities. (from JCAHO, Lexikon, 1994)
Outpatient Clinics, Hospital
Organized services in a hospital which provide medical care on an outpatient basis.
Surgery Department, Hospital
Hospital department which administers all departmental functions and the provision of surgical diagnostic and therapeutic services.
Ambulatory Care
Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may be a part of a hospital, augmenting its inpatient services, or may be provided at a free-standing facility.
Medicaid
Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XIX, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, administered by the states, that provides health care benefits to indigent and medically indigent persons.
Multivariate Analysis
A set of techniques used when variation in several variables has to be studied simultaneously. In statistics, multivariate analysis is interpreted as any analytic method that allows simultaneous study of two or more dependent variables.
Follow-Up Studies
Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.
Hospitals, County
Hospitals controlled by the county government.
Hospitals
Institutions with an organized medical staff which provide medical care to patients.
Insurance, Health
Insurance providing coverage of medical, surgical, or hospital care in general or for which there is no specific heading.
Massachusetts
Incidence
The number of new cases of a given disease during a given period in a specified population. It also is used for the rate at which new events occur in a defined population. It is differentiated from PREVALENCE, which refers to all cases, new or old, in the population at a given time.
New Jersey
Infection Control
Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Substances that reduce the growth or reproduction of BACTERIA.
Chi-Square Distribution
A distribution in which a variable is distributed like the sum of the squares of any given independent random variable, each of which has a normal distribution with mean of zero and variance of one. The chi-square test is a statistical test based on comparison of a test statistic to a chi-square distribution. The oldest of these tests are used to detect whether two or more population distributions differ from one another.
Age Factors
Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.
Hospital Administration
Management of the internal organization of the hospital.
American Hospital Association
A professional society in the United States whose membership is composed of hospitals.
Hospital Information Systems
Integrated, computer-assisted systems designed to store, manipulate, and retrieve information concerned with the administrative and clinical aspects of providing medical services within the hospital.
California
Food Service, Hospital
Hospital department that manages and supervises the dietary program in accordance with the patients' requirements.
Hospitals, Municipal
Hospitals controlled by the city government.
Databases as Topic
Organized collections of computer records, standardized in format and content, that are stored in any of a variety of computer-readable modes. They are the basic sets of data from which computer-readable files are created. (from ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)
Hospital Mortality
A vital statistic measuring or recording the rate of death from any cause in hospitalized populations.
Severity of Illness Index
Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.
Risk Assessment
The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)
New York
Perioperative Period
The time periods immediately before, during and following a surgical operation.
Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital
Hospital department responsible for the administration and management of services provided for obstetric and gynecologic patients.
Patient Care Team
Care of patients by a multidisciplinary team usually organized under the leadership of a physician; each member of the team has specific responsibilities and the whole team contributes to the care of the patient.
Logistic Models
Statistical models which describe the relationship between a qualitative dependent variable (that is, one which can take only certain discrete values, such as the presence or absence of a disease) and an independent variable. A common application is in epidemiology for estimating an individual's risk (probability of a disease) as a function of a given risk factor.
Surgical Wound Infection
Infection occurring at the site of a surgical incision.
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)
Evaluation procedures that focus on both the outcome or status (OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT) of the patient at the end of an episode of care - presence of symptoms, level of activity, and mortality; and the process (ASSESSMENT, PROCESS) - what is done for the patient diagnostically and therapeutically.
Cardiac Surgical Procedures
Surgery performed on the heart.
Hospitals, Religious
Private hospitals that are owned or sponsored by religious organizations.
Health Maintenance Organizations
Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)
England
Laryngectomy
Total or partial excision of the larynx.
Comorbidity
The presence of co-existing or additional diseases with reference to an initial diagnosis or with reference to the index condition that is the subject of study. Comorbidity may affect the ability of affected individuals to function and also their survival; it may be used as a prognostic indicator for length of hospital stay, cost factors, and outcome or survival.
Hospitals, Maternity
Special hospitals which provide care to women during pregnancy and parturition.
Nursing Service, Hospital
The hospital department which is responsible for the organization and administration of nursing activities.
Laboratories, Hospital
Hospital facilities equipped to carry out investigative procedures.
Colectomy
Excision of a portion of the colon or of the whole colon. (Dorland, 28th ed)
Hospital Shared Services
Cooperation among hospitals for the purpose of sharing various departmental services, e.g., pharmacy, laundry, data processing, etc.
Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal
An abnormal balloon- or sac-like dilatation in the wall of the ABDOMINAL AORTA which gives rise to the visceral, the parietal, and the terminal (iliac) branches below the aortic hiatus at the diaphragm.
Cardiology Service, Hospital
The hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of diagnostic and therapeutic services for the cardiac patient.
Hospital Bed Capacity, under 100
Bacteremia
The presence of viable bacteria circulating in the blood. Fever, chills, tachycardia, and tachypnea are common acute manifestations of bacteremia. The majority of cases are seen in already hospitalized patients, most of whom have underlying diseases or procedures which render their bloodstreams susceptible to invasion.
Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299
Statistics, Nonparametric
A class of statistical methods applicable to a large set of probability distributions used to test for correlation, location, independence, etc. In most nonparametric statistical tests, the original scores or observations are replaced by another variable containing less information. An important class of nonparametric tests employs the ordinal properties of the data. Another class of tests uses information about whether an observation is above or below some fixed value such as the median, and a third class is based on the frequency of the occurrence of runs in the data. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed, p1284; Corsini, Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology, 1987, p764-5)
Laparoscopy
A procedure in which a laparoscope (LAPAROSCOPES) is inserted through a small incision near the navel to examine the abdominal and pelvic organs in the PERITONEAL CAVITY. If appropriate, biopsy or surgery can be performed during laparoscopy.
Questionnaires
Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.
Burns
Injuries to tissues caused by contact with heat, steam, chemicals (BURNS, CHEMICAL), electricity (BURNS, ELECTRIC), or the like.
Stroke
A group of pathological conditions characterized by sudden, non-convulsive loss of neurological function due to BRAIN ISCHEMIA or INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES. Stroke is classified by the type of tissue NECROSIS, such as the anatomic location, vasculature involved, etiology, age of the affected individual, and hemorrhagic vs. non-hemorrhagic nature. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp777-810)
Hospitals, Military
Hospitals which provide care for the military personnel and usually for their dependents.
Hospitals, Veterans
Hospitals providing medical care to veterans of wars.
Linear Models
Statistical models in which the value of a parameter for a given value of a factor is assumed to be equal to a + bx, where a and b are constants. The models predict a linear regression.
Survival Analysis
A class of statistical procedures for estimating the survival function (function of time, starting with a population 100% well at a given time and providing the percentage of the population still well at later times). The survival analysis is then used for making inferences about the effects of treatments, prognostic factors, exposures, and other covariates on the function.
Quality of Life
A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral and social environment; the overall condition of a human life.
Great Britain
Employer Health Costs
That portion of total HEALTH CARE COSTS borne by an individual's or group's employing organization.
Health Facility Size
The physical space or dimensions of a facility. Size may be indicated by bed capacity.
Cross-Sectional Studies
Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time.
Health Care Surveys
Statistical measures of utilization and other aspects of the provision of health care services including hospitalization and ambulatory care.
Medical Audit
A detailed review and evaluation of selected clinical records by qualified professional personnel for evaluating quality of medical care.
Hospitals, Animal
Coronary Artery Bypass
Surgical therapy of ischemic coronary artery disease achieved by grafting a section of saphenous vein, internal mammary artery, or other substitute between the aorta and the obstructed coronary artery distal to the obstructive lesion.
Anesthesia
A state characterized by loss of feeling or sensation. This depression of nerve function is usually the result of pharmacologic action and is induced to allow performance of surgery or other painful procedures.
Referral and Consultation
The practice of sending a patient to another program or practitioner for services or advice which the referring source is not prepared to provide.
Patient Transfer
Interfacility or intrahospital transfer of patients. Intrahospital transfer is usually to obtain a specific kind of care and interfacility transfer is usually for economic reasons as well as for the type of care provided.
Tertiary Care Centers
A medical facility which provides a high degree of subspecialty expertise for patients from centers where they received SECONDARY CARE.
Purchasing, Hospital
Hospital department responsible for the purchasing of supplies and equipment.
Nurseries, Hospital
Hospital facilities which provide care for newborn infants.
Quality Indicators, Health Care
Norms, criteria, standards, and other direct qualitative and quantitative measures used in determining the quality of health care.
Psychiatric Department, Hospital
Hospital department responsible for the organization and administration of psychiatric services.
Prevalence
The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.
Data Collection
Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data.
Emergency Medical Services
Services specifically designed, staffed, and equipped for the emergency care of patients.
Formularies, Hospital
Formularies concerned with pharmaceuticals prescribed in hospitals.
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps.
Oncology Service, Hospital
The hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of diagnostic and therapeutic services for the cancer patient.
Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation
Surgical insertion of BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES to repair injured or diseased blood vessels.
Medical Records
Recording of pertinent information concerning patient's illness or illnesses.
State Medicine
A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population.
Housekeeping, Hospital
Hospital department which manages and provides the required housekeeping functions in all areas of the hospital.
Patient Satisfaction
The degree to which the individual regards the health care service or product or the manner in which it is delivered by the provider as useful, effective, or beneficial.
Health Facility Merger
The combining of administrative and organizational resources of two or more health care facilities.
Catchment Area (Health)
A geographic area defined and served by a health program or institution.

Practice patterns, case mix, Medicare payment policy, and dialysis facility costs. (1/1002)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of case mix, practice patterns, features of the payment system, and facility characteristics on the cost of dialysis. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: The nationally representative sample of dialysis units in the 1991 U.S. Renal Data System's Case Mix Adequacy (CMA) Study. The CMA data were merged with data from Medicare Cost Reports, HCFA facility surveys, and HCFA's end-stage renal disease patient registry. STUDY DESIGN: We estimated a statistical cost function to examine the determinants of costs at the dialysis unit level. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: The relationship between case mix and costs was generally weak. However, dialysis practices (type of dialysis membrane, membrane reuse policy, and treatment duration) did have a significant effect on costs. Further, facilities whose payment was constrained by HCFA's ceiling on the adjustment for area wage rates incurred higher costs than unconstrained facilities. The costs of hospital-based units were considerably higher than those of freestanding units. Among chain units, only members of one of the largest national chains exhibited significant cost savings relative to independent facilities. CONCLUSIONS: Little evidence showed that adjusting dialysis payment to account for differences in case mix across facilities would be necessary to ensure access to care for high-cost patients or to reimburse facilities equitably for their costs. However, current efforts to increase dose of dialysis may require higher payments. Longer treatments appear to be the most economical method of increasing the dose of dialysis. Switching to more expensive types of dialysis membranes was a more costly means of increasing dose and hence must be justified by benefits beyond those of higher dose. Reusing membranes saved money, but the savings were insufficient to offset the costs associated with using more expensive membranes. Most, but not all, of the higher costs observed in hospital-based units appear to reflect overhead cost allocation rather than a difference in real resources devoted to treatment. The economies experienced by the largest chains may provide an explanation for their recent growth in market share. The heterogeneity of results by chain size implies that characterizing units using a simple chain status indicator variable is inadequate. Cost differences by facility type and the effects of the ongoing growth of large chains are worthy of continued monitoring to inform both payment policy and antitrust enforcement.  (+info)

The economic impact of Staphylococcus aureus infection in New York City hospitals. (2/1002)

We modeled estimates of the incidence, deaths, and direct medical costs of Staphylococcus aureus infections in hospitalized patients in the New York City metropolitan area in 1995 by using hospital discharge data collected by the New York State Department of Health and standard sources for the costs of health care. We also examined the relative impact of methicillin-resistant versus -sensitive strains of S. aureus and of community-acquired versus nosocomial infections. S. aureus-associated hospitalizations resulted in approximately twice the length of stay, deaths, and medical costs of typical hospitalizations; methicillin-resistant and -sensitive infections had similar direct medical costs, but resistant infections caused more deaths (21% versus 8%). Community-acquired and nosocomial infections had similar death rates, but community-acquired infections appeared to have increased direct medical costs per patient ($35,300 versus $28,800). The results of our study indicate that reducing the incidence of methicillin-resistant and -sensitive nosocomial infections would reduce the societal costs of S. aureus infection.  (+info)

Total joint replacement: implication of cancelled operations for hospital costs and waiting list management. (3/1002)

OBJECTIVE: To identify aspects of provision of total joint replacements which could be improved. DESIGN: 10 month prospective study of hospital admissions and hospital costs for patients whose total joint replacement was cancelled. SETTING: Information and Waiting List Unit, Musgrave Park Regional Orthopaedic Service, Belfast. PATIENTS: 284 consecutive patients called for admission for total joint replacement. MAIN MEASURES: Costs of cancellation of operation after admission in terms of hotel and opportunity costs. RESULTS: 28(10%) planned operations were cancelled, 27 of which were avoidable cancellations. Five replacement patients were substituted on the theatre list, leaving 22(8%) of 232 operating theatre opportunities unused. Patients seen at assessment clinics within two months before admission had a significantly higher operation rate than those admitted from a routine waiting list (224/232(97%) v 32/52(62%), x2 = 58.6, df = 1; p < 0.005). Mean duration of hospital stay in 28 patients with cancelled operations was 1.92 days. Operating theatre opportunity costs were 73% of the total costs of cancelled total joint replacements. CONCLUSION: Patients on long waiting lists for surgery should be reassessed before admission to avoid wasting theatre opportunities, whose cost is the largest component of the total costs of cancelled operations.  (+info)

Resource allocation for public hospitals in Andhra Pradesh, India. (4/1002)

The composition of the hospital sector has important implications for cost effectiveness accessibility and coverage. The classification of acute general hospitals is reviewed here with particular reference to India and Andhra Pradesh. Approaches to arrive at a norm for allocation of hospital expenditure among secondary and tertiary hospitals are discussed. The actual allocation of public sector hospital expenditures is analyzed with data from Andhra Pradesh. The shift in allocative emphasis away from hospitals and in favour of primary health care during the 1980s was found to have been equally shared by secondary and tertiary hospitals. The shares of recurrent (non-plan) expenditure to secondary and tertiary hospitals were 51% and 49% respectively. This can be compared to a derived norm of 66% and 33%. The opportunity that new investment funds (plan schemes) could have provided to rectify the expenditure bias against secondary level hospitals was missed as two-thirds of plan expenditure were also spent on tertiary level hospitals. The share of secondary hospital bed capacity was 45.5% against India's Planning Commission norm of 70%. Public spending strategies should explicitly consider what mix of hospital services is being financed as well as the balance between hospital and primary health care expenditures.  (+info)

The influence of day of life in predicting the inpatient costs for providing care to very low birth weight infants. (5/1002)

The purpose of this study was to test, refine, and extend a statistical model that adjusts neonatal intensive care costs for a very low birth weight infant's day of life and birth weight category. Subjects were 62 infants with birth weights below 1,501 g who were born and cared for in a university hospital until discharged home alive. Subjects were stratified into 250-g birth weight categories. Clinical and actual daily room and ancillary-resource costs for each day of care of each infant were tabulated. Data were analyzed by using a nonlinear regression procedure specifying two separate for modeling. The modeling was performed with data sets that both included and excluded room costs. The former set of data were used for generating a model applicable for comparing interhospital performances and the latter for comparing interphysician performances. The results confirm the existence of a strong statistical relationship between an infant's day of life and both total hospital costs and the isolated costs for ancillary-resource alone (P < 0.0001). A refined series of statistical models have been generated that are applicable to the assessment of either interhospital or interphysician costs associated with providing inpatient care to very low birth weight infants.  (+info)

Short-term continuous infusion thrombolytic therapy for occluded central nervous venous dialysis catheters. (6/1002)

The necessity of maintaining a strict schedule of dialysis treatments in patients with chronic renal failure dictates that occluded access catheters be restored to full function in a timely and cost-effective manner. The records of 22 consecutive patients receiving outpatient treatment for occluded hemodialysis catheters at Osteopathic Medical Center of Texas were reviewed by the authors. Each patient had 100,000 units of urokinase in 50 ml normal saline instilled over 30 minutes through the occluded catheter. In most instances the dose was divided to allow 35 ml to the proximal port and 15 ml to the distal port. The maximum sustained blood flow rate on dialysis was recorded for each patient. The mean maximum sustained blood flow rate improved from 150 ml/min +/- 79 ml to 261 ml/min +/- 62 ml. Following infusion, improvement was obtained in 19 of 22 patients, with 14 catheters delivering blood flow greater than 250 ml/min. The total cost per treatment was $316. No adverse events were experienced. Thrombotic occlusion of extended use hemodialysis catheters can be rapidly and safely relieved in a cost-effective manner with little delay in scheduled dialysis treatments.  (+info)

Effects of a computerised protocol management system on ordering of clinical tests. (7/1002)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of a computerised protocol management system on the number, cost, and appropriateness of laboratory investigations requested. DESIGN: A before and after intervention. SETTING: A supraregional liver unit in a teaching hospital. PATIENTS: 1487 consecutive patients admitted during 1990 and 1991 (one year before and one year after introduction of the system). INTERVENTION: Introduction of a computerised protocol management system on 1 January 1991. MAIN MEASURES: The number and cost of clinical chemistry tests requested per patient day. RESULTS: The total number of clinical chemistry tests requested per patient day by the unit declined 17% (p < 0.001, Student's t test) and of out of hours tests requested per patient day from 0.31 to 0.16, 48% (p < 0.001; Mann-Whitney U test), resulting in a 28% reduction (p < 0.001) in direct laboratory expenditure per patient-day. Overall, the number of tests per admission decreased by 24% (p < 0.001; Mann-Whitney U test). CONCLUSION: Use of the computerised protocol management system resulted in closer compliance with the protocols and a significant reduction in the overall level of requesting. IMPLICATIONS: Although similar systems need to be tested in other clinical settings, computerised protocol management systems may be important in providing appropriate and cost effective health care.  (+info)

Developments in total quality management in the United States: the Intermountain Health Care perspective. (8/1002)

In summary our purpose has been to evaluate quality in the following terms. Best process of care--narrowing the variation of care decisions, working towards the best method. Best clinical outcome--decreased morbidity ond mortality. Best patient satisfaction--both for clinical outcome and the process of care. Best value--best value at the lowest cost. At Intermountain Health Care we believe that the best way to achieve the best quality improvement in a health care system is to involve all of the participants--patients, providers, and systems--in employing the principles of total quality management. Patient involvement--in prevention; participating in best care process through education and utilisation; in evaluating functional status before, during, and after intervention; in satisfaction; in clinical outcome and follow up with providers. Provider involvement--in planning, implementing, analysing, and educating; in defining guidelines; in reassessing and defining guidelines; in reassessing and continually modifying the care map, always striving for "best care." System involvement--in providing structure and mechanisms, support staff, and information systems and being willing to focus on quality as a part of its mission. An American philosopher, George Santayana, once said: "What we call the contagious force of an idea is really the force of the people who have embraced it." It will be up to all of us collectively to become the force behind moving quality management principles into the forefront of patient care methodology and ensuring that quality remains as the guiding principle of health care delivery in the future.  (+info)

The impact of payer-specific hospital case mix on hospital costs and rThe impact of payer-specific hospital case mix on hospital costs and r
Competition among hospitals and managed care have forced hospital industry to be more efficient. With higher degrees of hospital competition and managed care penetration, hospitals have argued that the rate of increase in hospital cost is greater than the rate of increase in hospital revenue. By developing a payer-specific case mix index (CMI) for third-party patients, this paper examined the effect of hospital case mix on hospital cost and revenue for third-party patients in California using the hospital financial and utilization data covering 1986-1998. This study found that the coefficients for CMIs in the third-party hospital revenue model were greater than those in the hospital cost model until 1995. Since 1995, however, the coefficients for CMIs in the third-party hospital revenue model have been less than those in hospital cost models. Over time, the differences in coefficients for CMIs in hospital revenue and cost models for third-party patients have become smaller and smaller although those
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Changes in hospital costs after introducing an intermediate care unit: a comparative observational study | Critical Care | Full...Changes in hospital costs after introducing an intermediate care unit: a comparative observational study | Critical Care | Full...
The high cost of critical care resources has resulted in strategies to reduce the costs of ruling out low-risk patients by developing intermediate care units (IMCs). The aim of this study was to compare changes in total hospital costs for intensive care patients before and after the introduction of an IMC at the University Hospital Maastricht. The design was a comparative longitudinal study. The setting was a university hospital with a mixed intensive care unit (ICU), an IMC, and general wards. Changes in total hospital costs were measured for patients who were admitted to the ICU before and after the introduction of the IMC. The comparison of interest was the opening of a six-bed mixed IMC. The mean total hospital cost per patient increased significantly. Before the introduction of the IMC, the total hospital cost per patient was €12,961 (± €14,530) and afterwards it rose to €16,513 (± €17,718). Multiple regression analysis was used to determine to what extent patient characteristics
https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/cc6903/tables/2
A longitudinal study of the effects of age and time to death on hospital costs. - Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)A longitudinal study of the effects of age and time to death on hospital costs. - Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)
Recent studies indicate that approaching death, rather than age, may be the main demographic driver of health care costs. Using a 29-year longitudinal English dataset, this paper uses more robust methods to examine the effects of age and proximity to death on hospital costs. A random effects panel data two-part model shows that approaching death affects costs up to 15 years prior to death. The large tenfold increase in costs from 5 years prior to death to the last year of life overshadows the 30% increase in costs from age 65 to 85. Hence, expenditure projections must consider remaining life expectancy in the populations.
https://www.herc.ox.ac.uk/publications/162893
Estimating the contemporary in-hospital costs of carotid endarterectomy<...Estimating the contemporary in-hospital costs of carotid endarterectomy<...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Estimating the contemporary in-hospital costs of carotid endarterectomy. AU - Baldwin, Zachary K.. AU - Meyerson, Shari L.. AU - Skelly, Christopher L.. AU - McKinsey, James F.. AU - Bassiouny, Hisham S.. AU - MacDonald, R. Loch. AU - Gewertz, Bruce L.. AU - Schwartz, Lewis B.. PY - 2000. Y1 - 2000. N2 - Carotid endarterectomy (CEA) is the treatment of choice for symptomatic carotid stenosis and selective asymptomatic lesions. Alternative approaches have recently been championed under the guise of increased efficacy and decreased cost. The purpose of this study was to determine the results and in-hospital costs of CEA in a university hospital in the modern era. A retrospective chart review was undertaken for all patients undergoing CEA between January 1995 and December 1997. This corresponded to the implementation of a clinical path and extended efforts toward cost reduction. Patients undergoing combined CEA and cardiopulmonary bypass were excluded (n = 3). Cost was analyzed by ...
https://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/en/publications/estimating-the-contemporary-in-hospital-costs-of-carotid-endarter
Health Care Policy And Financing Annual Report On Hospital Expenditures | Colorado General AssemblyHealth Care Policy And Financing Annual Report On Hospital Expenditures | Colorado General Assembly
The bill directs the department to consult with the hospital provider fee oversight and advisory board on the development of the hospital expenditure report. The department may combine the hospital expenditure report with the advisory boards annual report on the hospital provider fee. The advisory board, using staff and analysis from the department, shall provide estimates for the payment-to-cost ratio and the cost-shift analysis portions of its report based on information provided to the department by hospitals.. The hospital expenditure report shall include, but not be limited to:. ...
http://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb17-1236
Assessing the Impact of Drug Use on Hospital Costs - RWJFAssessing the Impact of Drug Use on Hospital Costs - RWJF
This study determined that prescription drugs do have a positive effect on hospital expenditures by either preventing hospitalization or resulting in cost savings once patients have been admitted.
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2009/02/assessing-the-impact-of-drug-use-on-hospital-costs.html
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A-Share Listed Coal and Commercial Fuel Companies - Profiles and Financial Data A-Share Listed Coal and Commercial Fuel Companies - Profiles and Financial Data Coal and - Market research report and industry analysis - 10765339
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Download Analysis Of Financial DataDownload Analysis Of Financial Data
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The sources of hospital cost variabilityThe sources of hospital cost variability
Hospital heterogeneity is a major issue in defining a reimbursement system. If hospitals are heterogeneous, it is difficult to distinguish which part of the differences in costs is due to cost containment efforts and which part cannot be reduced, because it is due to other unobserved sources of hospital heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply an econometric approach to analyse hospital cost variability. We use a nested three-dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) in order to explore the sources of variation in hospital costs, taking into account unobservable components of hospital cost heterogeneity. The three-dimensional structure of our data makes it possible to identify transitory and permanent components of hospital cost heterogeneity. Econometric estimates are performed on a sample of 7314 stays for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) observed in 36 French public hospitals over the period 1994-1997. Transitory unobservable hospital heterogeneity is far from negligible : its estimated ...
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/5426
Trumps Patient-Friendly Push on Hospital Costs Has LimitsTrumps Patient-Friendly Push on Hospital Costs Has Limits
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The Trump administration believes in the power of transparency, at least when it comes to health care. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday afternoon that calls for hospitals to tell patients how much they charge for surgeries and other services. These expenses
https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-patient-friendly-push-hospital-195806867.html
Hospital costs during the first 5 years of life for multiples compared with singletons born after IVF or ICSI<...Hospital costs during the first 5 years of life for multiples compared with singletons born after IVF or ICSI<...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Hospital costs during the first 5 years of life for multiples compared with singletons born after IVF or ICSI. AU - van Heesch, M.M.J.. AU - Evers, J.L.H.. AU - van der Hoeven, M.A.H.B.M.. AU - Dumoulin, J.C.M.. AU - van Beijsterveldt, C.E.M.. AU - Bonsel, G.J.. AU - Dykgraaf, R.H.M.. AU - van Goudoever, J.B.. AU - Koopman-Esseboom, C.. AU - Nelen, W.L.D.M.. AU - Steiner, K.. AU - Tamminga, P.. AU - Tonch, N.. AU - Torrance, H.L.. AU - Dirksen, C.D.. PY - 2015/6. Y1 - 2015/6. N2 - STUDY QUESTION: Do in vitro fertilization (IVF) multiples generate higher hospital costs than IVF singletons, from birth up to age 5?SUMMARY ANSWER: Hospital costs from birth up to age 5 were significantly higher among IVF/ICSI multiple children compared with IVF/ICSI singletons; however, when excluding the costs incurred during the birth admission period, hospital costs of multiples and singletons were comparable.WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Concern has risen over the long-term outcome of children born after ...
https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/hospital-costs-during-the-first-5-years-of-life-for-multiples-com
Fakultät VII Wirtschaft & Management: Röttger J, Scheller-Kreinsen D, Busse R (2012): Patient-level hospital costs and length...Fakultät VII Wirtschaft & Management: Röttger J, Scheller-Kreinsen D, Busse R (2012): Patient-level hospital costs and length...
Objectives: A current trend in total hip replacement (THR) is the use of minimally invasive surgery. Little is known, however, about the impact of minimally invasive THR on resource use and length of stay. This study analyzed the effect of minimally invasive surgery on hospital costs and length of stay in German hospitals compared with conventional treatment in THR. Methods: We used patient-level administrative hospital data from three German hospitals participating in the national cost data study. We conducted a propensity score matching to account for baseline differences between minimally invasively and conventionally treated patients. Subsequently, we estimated the treatment effect on costs and length of stay by conducting group comparisons, via paired t tests and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, and regression analyses. Results: The three hospitals provided data from 2886 THR patients. The propensity score matching led to 812 matched pairs. Length of stay was significantly higher for ...
https://www.mig.tu-berlin.de/sysordner_sammlung/publikationen/2012_publikationen/2012_pub_1/roettger_j_scheller_kreinsen_d_busse_r_2012_patient_level_hospital_costs_and_length_of_stay_after_conventional_versus_minimally_invasive_total_hip_replacement_a_propensity_matched_analysis_value_in_health_158999_1004doi_101016jjval1206008/parameter/en/font3/minhilfe/
Processes of early stroke care and hospital costs - Forskning - Aarhus UniversitetProcesses of early stroke care and hospital costs - Forskning - Aarhus Universitet
BACKGROUND: The relationship between processes of early stroke care and hospital costs remains unclear.. AIMS: We therefore examined the association in a population based cohort study.. METHODS: We identified 5909 stroke patients who were admitted to stroke units in a Danish county between 2005 and 2010.The examined recommended processes of care included early admission to a stroke unit, early initiation of antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy, early computed tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (CT/MRI) scan, early physiotherapy and occupational therapy, early assessment of nutritional risk, constipation risk and of swallowing function, early mobilization,early catheterization, and early thromboembolism prophylaxis.Hospital costs were assessed for each patient based on the number of days spent in different in-hospital facilities using local hospital charges.. RESULTS: The mean costs of hospitalization were $23 352 (standard deviation 27 827). The relationship between receiving more relevant ...
https://pure.au.dk/portal/da/publications/processes-of-early-stroke-care-and-hospital-costs
Hospital Costs in PerspectiveHospital Costs in Perspective
Rising hospital costs have caused concern to the public, Government, and Members of Parliament ever since the start of the National Health Service. They are at present taxing the minds of those responsible for administering the hospitals as they try to contain hospital expenditure within the limits of funds made available by the Government. Nevertheless the problems are not
https://www.ohe.org/publications/hospital-costs-perspective
Trends in Hospital Cost and Revenue, 1994-2005 - RWJFTrends in Hospital Cost and Revenue, 1994-2005 - RWJF
Examining two 5-year periods, one when HMO enrollment was increasing and one when it was decreasing, shows that HMOs had an effect on lowering hospital costs and revenues, albeit a diminishing one. This study looked at trends in hospital cost and revenue relative to different levels of HMO market structure.
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2010/02/trends-in-hospital-cost-and-revenue--1994-2005.html
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Earlier attention to quality of life reduces hospital costs for advanced cancer patients - ONAEarlier attention to quality of life reduces hospital costs for advanced cancer patients - ONA
Earlier introduction of palliative care for patients hospitalized with advanced cancer is associated with lower hospital costs, according to a recent study.
http://www.oncologynurseadvisor.com/web-exclusives/earlier-attention-to-quality-of-life-reduces-hospital-costs-for-advanced-cancer-patients/article/422392/
Hospital Cost Compare | Medical and surgery costs at Regional HospitalHospital Cost Compare | Medical and surgery costs at Regional Hospital
Regional Hospital Of Jackson surgery costs and medicare payments. Inpatient and outpatient procedure costs. Compare hospital costs in the US
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Minimizing an important part of hospital costs through the optimal allocation of the number of nursing force to different days...Minimizing an important part of hospital costs through the optimal allocation of the number of nursing force to different days...
Introduction: the hospital as the largest health care center of the society allocates a bulk of the sources and credits assigned to the health sector of the country. Several studies carried out by the researchers indicate that the manpower cost of each hospital constitutes over sixty per cent of its resources. Due to the relevance of the personnel in the quality of services provided to the patients and its costs for hospital, determining the number of optimal needed employees of hospital complex departments is a problem; it has not had a specified standard. Therefore, this research has been carried out for reducing the hospital costs to minimum through the optimization of the nursing force allocation using the Linear programming model in the hospital emergency department. This case study was conducted in 2015.. Method: this is a scientific-applied and cross-sectional-descriptive study that has been done in a public health training Centre in 2015; the emergency department was randomly selected as ...
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Weekend spine surgery linked to longer stays, higher costsWeekend spine surgery linked to longer stays, higher costs
(HealthDay)-Patients admitted to the hospital on weekends for cervical spine fusion resulting from trauma have a greater length of stay and total hospital costs than their weekday counterparts, according to a study published in the Dec. 1 issue of Spine.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-12-weekend-spine-surgery-linked-longer.html
Trends in Hospital Costs/Utilization - HCUP Fast StatsTrends in Hospital Costs/Utilization - HCUP Fast Stats
This HCUP Fast Stats query path explores nationwide hospital inpatient trends over the last 10 and 20 years. Trends in inpatient stays are provided for number of stays, average hospital costs, length of stay, and in-hospital mortality. Trends are provided overall and by patient age, sex, expected payer, community-level income, and hospitalization type.
https://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/faststats/NationalTrendsServlet?measure1=01&characteristic1=01&time1=10&measure2=06&characteristic2=02&time2=10&expansionInfoState=hide&dataTablesState=hide&definitionsState=hide&exportState=hide
PAC hears National Childrens Hospital Cost could reach €2 billion without any Accountability - OBrien | Sinn FéinPAC hears National Childrens Hospital Cost could reach €2 billion without any Accountability - OBrien | Sinn Féin
Sinn Féins deputy spokesperson for Public Expenditure & Reform Jonathan OBrien TD has called on DPER officials to come before the Public Accounts Committee.. This comes after yesterdays Public Accounts Committee during which new details of the National Childrens Hospital cost overrun came to light.. Speaking today, the TD for Cork North-Central, Deputy OBrien said:. Yesterdays meeting of the Public Accounts Committee brought further light to the mismanagement of the National Childrens Hospital and the resulting cost overruns. We now know that between June and November of 2018, in a period of 5 months, costs rose by up to €450 million; thats €100 million a month. As yet we dont know exactly how those costs rose. Many questions remain.. Officials before the Public Accounts Committee made clear that the Department of Health assumed overall responsibility for this scandalous mismanagement of taxpayers money, but attention must now turn to the knowledge and involvement of the ...
https://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/52285
Are Facebook user ratings associated with hospital cost, quality and patient satisfaction? A cross-sectional analysis of...Are Facebook user ratings associated with hospital cost, quality and patient satisfaction? A cross-sectional analysis of...
Are Facebook user ratings associated with hospital cost, quality and patient satisfaction? A cross-sectional analysis of hospitals in New York State ...
http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/2017/06/09/bmjqs-2016-006291.altmetrics
An inside look at how Horizon used hospital costs - and quality - in plan to change N.J. health care | News | Day Pitney LLPAn inside look at how Horizon used hospital costs - and quality - in plan to change N.J. health care | News | Day Pitney LLP
|p|Michael Furey was quoted in an article, An inside look at how Horizon used hospital costs – and quality – in plan to change N.J. health care, which was published on NJ.com and also appeared in the July 29 edition of |em|The Star-Ledger|/em| under the headline, Reports: Horizon Skewed Quality, Costs on New Plan.|/p|
https://www.daypitney.com/news/2018/07/24-an-inside-look-at-how-horizon-used-hospital
Increasing the financial wellbeing of young people - Systemic Design Lab LabIncreasing the financial wellbeing of young people - Systemic Design Lab Lab
This graduation project was inspired by a growing number of people that deliberately save money as a way of reclaiming the freedom to self-govern their time, energy and money. Unfortunately, little collective effort is currently being put into helping various people translate financial data into wisdom, which causes most people to still end up with obscured and chronologically fragmented transactions that fail to inform on how effortless digital payment might be endangering their dreams for the future. In 2016, the EU passed a new law called PSD2 that liberates financial data beyond banking corporations. The urgency of facilitating financial thoughtfulness without requiring extensive effort, literacy or commercial data-extraction provided a unique opportunity for the client (Nibud, the National Institute for Family Finance Information) to grow even more relevant.. ...
https://delftdesignlabs.org/news/financial-wellbeing/
Improving Healthcare and Big Data CollectionImproving Healthcare and Big Data Collection
In this webinar recording, find out how to formulate the right questions before you start data collection and analysis, best practices for visualizing financial data, and how to keep financial data simple and digestible for your audience.
https://www.litmos.com/es-LA/resources/videos-webinars/improving-healthcare-big-data-collection
Improving Healthcare and Big Data CollectionImproving Healthcare and Big Data Collection
In this webinar recording, find out how to formulate the right questions before you start data collection and analysis, best practices for visualizing financial data, and how to keep financial data simple and digestible for your audience.
https://www.litmos.com/ja-JP/zh-CN/resources/videos-webinars/improving-healthcare-big-data-collection
Improving Access to Financial Data on the WebImproving Access to Financial Data on the Web
A strength of the architecture of the web is the central role played by the relationship between names and resources. We propose to leverage that W3C strength, in the public interest. The W3C would create specifications by which information collectors could publish up-to-date lists of the public domain unique identifiers that they bind to entities on which they collect information. The information would include all of the public information that would help users and applications to infer, construct or publish their own relationships among identifiers (experience shows that geographic and postal address information is essential to the mapping process). To take two concrete examples:. ...
http://www.w3.org/2009/03/xbrl/addendum.html
Fintechs and banks battle over data, CFPB tries to help - Protocol - The people, power and politics of techFintechs and banks battle over data, CFPB tries to help - Protocol - The people, power and politics of tech
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is preparing to change its rules on financial data. The changes could have a major impact on how consumers can access and move their financial data between banks, fintechs and other companies. and companies like Plaid, Dave, Credit Karma, Affirm and SoFi have sent a letter to the CFPB.
https://www.protocol.com/fintech/cfpb-banks-financial-data
Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Cross-Sectional Dependence and Heteroskedasticity in Financial DataConsistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Cross-Sectional Dependence and Heteroskedasticity in Financial Data
Downloadable! This paper provides a simple method to account for heteroskedasticity and cross-sectional dependence in samples with large cross sections and relatively few time-series observations. The method is motivated by cross-sectional regression studies in finance and accounting. Simulation evidence suggests that these estimators are dependable in small samples and may be useful when generalized least squares is infeasible, unreliable, or computationally too burdensome. We also consider efficiency issues and show that, in principle, asymptotic efficiency can be improved using a technique due to Cragg (1983).
https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/jfinqa/v24y1989i03p333-355_01.html
How Do Banks Maintain Financial Data? Mainframes | Bank Systems & TechnologyHow Do Banks Maintain Financial Data? Mainframes | Bank Systems & Technology
With their speed, capacity, intelligence, and security capabilities, mainframes remain a core component of banking data practices.
https://www.banktech.com/infrastructure/how-do-banks-maintain-financial-data-mainframes/a/d-id/1318116?
Equifax Confirms Hackers Stole Financial Data, Launches Investigation - ABC NewsEquifax Confirms Hackers Stole Financial Data, Launches Investigation - ABC News
Credit reporting agency Equifax confirmed that fraudulent and unauthorized access to financial files of four high profile people were recently compromised, but the company declined to identify the individuals.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/equifax-confirms-hackers-stole-financial-data-launches-investigation/story?id=18715884
Study: Consolidation Lowers Hospital CostsStudy: Consolidation Lowers Hospital Costs
Increased consolidation among health plans nationally may benefit consumers by lowering hospital prices, at least in those regions where health plans are the most consolidated, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/study-consolidation-lowers-hospital-costs
AHCA Hospital DataAHCA Hospital Data
The Agency For Health Care Administration makes available performance outcome and financial data for BayCare hospitals, including Morton Plant Hospital, at http://www.floridahealthfinder.gov/index.html.
https://www.baycare.org/hospitals/morton-plant-hospital/about-us/ahca-hospital-data
Video - New Dad Tries To Find Out How Much Giving Birth At Hospital Cost - Viral Viral VideosVideo - New Dad Tries To Find Out How Much Giving Birth At Hospital Cost - Viral Viral Videos
Most soon to be parents are so excited and busy with the upcoming birth that they dont even think about the price of the hospital. But as all new parents know, the charges from the hospital can be downright shocking. Vox wanted to find out. This is what happened. ...
https://viralviralvideos.com/2016/05/05/new-dad-tries-to-find-out-how-much-giving-birth-at-hospital-cost/
Decentralized Finance and its key elements | Business Startup plan and Success Rate | New Voice of BusinessDecentralized Finance and its key elements | Business Startup plan and Success Rate | New Voice of Business
Governance - decisions relating to the provision, characteristics and evolution of the service are taken by the community of users of the same;. Risk - the different types of risk associated with the financial services used are assumed by the user himself without any guarantee from the provider;. Data management - financial data is present in multiple copies on different servers not owned by the provider and accessible to all.. 2) Disintermediation. Financial intermediaries with commission-focused business models tend to make transactions less efficient in industries where the drive for cost reduction is strong and ongoing.. Decentralized Finance services determine the reduction, or elimination, of some or all of the intermediaries of service, allowing users to interface directly with each other.. The technologies underlying Decentralized Finance. At the base of these applications, there is a constellation of technologies that allow the decentralization, more or less extreme, of financial ...
https://www.newvoiceofbusiness.org/finance/decentralized-finance-and-its-key-elements.html
Hospital costs and payments - Better Health ChannelHospital costs and payments - Better Health Channel
Treatment as a public patient in Victorian public hospitals is free to all Australian citizens and most permanent residents of Australia.
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/ServicesAndSupport/hospital-costs-and-payments
How to Survive Hospital Costs Without Insurance - The Lawful PathHow to Survive Hospital Costs Without Insurance - The Lawful Path
Insurance companies negotiate in secret with hospitals for big discounts on all services, and line-item veto on individual charges. Now you can save thousands of dollars by learning how to take advantage of these secret contracts and apply them to your own bills.
https://www.lawfulpath.com/freerpt/sh/index.php
Lessons From The COVID-19 Crisis: Overcrowding Hospitals Cost Lives | WSKGWSKGLessons From The COVID-19 Crisis: Overcrowding Hospitals Cost Lives | WSKGWSKG
Health care systems endured a stress test like no other over the past year as COVID-19 patients filled up hospital beds and intensive care units. Health care workers pleaded with the public to flatten the curve, yet each surge in 2020 was worse than the next. Now two recent studies quantify the consequences of flooding […]
https://wskg.org/npr_story_post/lessons-from-the-covid-19-crisis-overcrowding-hospitals-cost-lives/
SGR Fix, ICD-10 Delay, Impact on HospitalsSGR Fix, ICD-10 Delay, Impact on Hospitals
For hospitals and health systems, theres some good, bad and ugly in legislation that is moving swiftly through Congress to change how Medicare pays physicians.
https://www.hhnmag.com/articles/4635-sgr-fix-offers-mixed-bag-for-hospitals
Need surgery? Good luck getting hospital cost info | Minnesota Public Radio NewsNeed surgery? Good luck getting hospital cost info | Minnesota Public Radio News
Want to know how much a hip replacement will cost? Many hospitals wont be able to tell you, at least not right away -- if at all. And if you shop around and find centers that can quote a price, the amounts could vary astronomically, a study found.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2013/02/12/health/hospital-cost-info
Volume, Goods Prices Behind Hospital Cost Increases | PLANSPONSORVolume, Goods Prices Behind Hospital Cost Increases | PLANSPONSOR
February 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hospital spending continued to rise from 1997 to 2001 behind an increase in patient volume and the rising costs of goods and services.
https://www.plansponsor.com/volume-goods-prices-behind-hospital-cost-increases/
You have the right to know hospital costs. Heres what you need to knowYou have the right to know hospital costs. Heres what you need to know
Hospitals had to put out more easily understandable, albeit much shorter price disclosures, to help the public look up hundreds of medical services.
https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/2021/01/18/you-have-right-know-hospital-costs-heres-what-you-need-know/4205777001/
Need surgery? Good luck getting hospital cost infoNeed surgery? Good luck getting hospital cost info
Want to know how much a hip replacement will cost? Many hospitals wont be able to tell you, at least not right away - if at all. And if you shop...
http://www.sify.com/finance/need-surgery-good-luck-getting-hospital-cost-info-news-health-ncmcJlfbgjc.html?ref=slideout
HERC Seminar: The causal effect of adiposity on hospital costs: Mendelian Randomization analysis of over 300,000 individuals...HERC Seminar: The causal effect of adiposity on hospital costs: Mendelian Randomization analysis of over 300,000 individuals...
Estimates of the marginal effect of measures of adiposity such as body mass index (BMI) on healthcare costs are important for the formulation and evaluation of policies targeting adverse weight profiles. Many existing estimates of this association are affected by endogeneity bias caused by simultaneity bias, measurement error and omitted variables. The contribution of this study is to avoid this bias by using a novel identification strategy - random germline genetic variation in an instrumental variable analysis - to identify the presence and magnitude of the causal effect of BMI on inpatient hospital costs. We use genetic variant-level data to undertake much richer testing of the sensitivity of results to potential violations of the instrumental variable assumptions than is possible with existing approaches. Using data on over 300,000 individuals, we found effect sizes for the marginal unit of BMI over 50% as large as multivariable effect sizes. These effects attenuated under sensitivity ...
https://www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/events/herc-seminar-the-causal-effect-of-adiposity-on-hospital-costs-mendelian-randomization-analysis-of-over-300-000-individuals-from-the-uk-biobank
Increased hospital costs associated with red blood cell transfusionIncreased hospital costs associated with red blood cell transfusion
Background - Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is independently associated in a dose-dependent manner with increased intensive care unit stay, total hospital length of stay, and hospital-acquired complications. Since little is known of the cost of these transfusion-associated adverse outcomes our aim was to determine the total hospital cost associated with RBC transfusion and to assess any dose-dependent relationship. Study Design and Methods - A retrospective cohort study of all multiday acute care inpatients discharged from a five hospital health service in Western Australia between July 2011 and June 2012 was conducted. Main outcome measures were incidence of RBC transfusion and mean inpatient hospital costs. Results - Of 89,996 multiday, acute care inpatient discharges, 4805 (5.3%) were transfused at least 1 unit of RBCs. After potential confounders were adjusted for, the mean inpatient cost was 1.83 times higher in the transfused group compared with the nontransfused group (95% confidence ...
https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/25356
Abstract 3138: Hospitalization Costs for Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients Treated with Endovascular Embolectomy in the United...Abstract 3138: Hospitalization Costs for Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients Treated with Endovascular Embolectomy in the United...
Background and Purpose- It is important to know the costs for hospitalization for endovascular embolectomy patients so that comparisons can be made to payments to hospitals.. Methods- Using the National Inpatient Sample, we evaluated the costs for hospitalization for patients treated with endovascular embolectomy in the United States from 2006-2008. The primary endpoint examined in this study was total hospital costs, and these were correlated with clinical outcome. Hospitalization costs were then compared with Medicare payments for their respective outcomes. MS-DRG 24 was the diagnostic related group code (DRG) for mechanical embolectomy with good outcome and MS-DRG 23 was the DRG code for mechanical embolectomy with major complications. Medicare payments were available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov.. Results- A total of 3864 patients received endovascular embolectomy. 1649 patients were ,65 years old and 2205 patients were ≥65 years old. Median hospital costs in 2008 dollars were $36,999 (IQR ...
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/43/Suppl_1/A3138
Fakultät VII Wirtschaft & Management: Wittenbecher F, ... Röttger J, Busse R (2013): Comparison of hospital costs and length of...Fakultät VII Wirtschaft & Management: Wittenbecher F, ... Röttger J, Busse R (2013): Comparison of hospital costs and length of...
BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic inguinal hernia surgery is increasingly seen as the superior technique in hernia repair. Compared to open-mesh hernia repair, laparoscopic approaches are often reported to be more cost-effective but incur higher costs for the provider. The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) and totally extraperitoneal (TEP) repair of nonincarcerated inguinal hernias in men on hospital costs and length of stay (LoS). METHODS: We used routine administrative, highly standardized, patient-level cost data from 15 German hospitals participating in the national cost data study. We compared TEP, TAPP, and open-mesh repair. We conducted propensity score matching to account for baseline differences between treatment groups and subsequently estimated the treatment effect on costs and LoS. RESULTS: Total costs for both TEP and TAPP surgery were significantly lower than those for open-mesh repair (p , 0.0001 and p , 0.05, respectively). TEP repair ...
https://www.mig.tu-berlin.de/sysordner_sammlung/publikationen/2013_publikationen/2013_pub_1/wittenbecher_f_roettger_j_busse_r_2013_comparison_of_hospital_costs_and_length_of_stay_associated_with_open_mesh_totally_extraperitoneal_inguinal_hernia_repair_and_transabdominal_preperitoneal_inguinal_hernia_repair_surgical_endoscopy/parameter/minhilfe/?cHash=4a96fd4b9043f4c6e545d20e771259dd&type=1
GFD World Index 2.0 - Global Financial DataGFD World Index 2.0 - Global Financial Data
Global Financial Data divides the past four centuries of the stock market into four eras: Mercantilism (1601-1799), Free Trade (1800-1914), Regulation (1914-1981), and Globalization (1981-). The stock market was fundamentally different during those four eras affecting equity and bond returns, the dividend yield and the equity risk premium.. During the period of Mercantilism, government favored national monopolies that could trade with the rest of the world. The Dutch had the East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) and the West India Company (Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie). The French had its own East India Company (Compagnie des Indes) which traded in all parts of the world. England had three companies which dominated their stock market during the 1700s, the Bank of England, the East India Co. and the South Sea Co. In addition to these three companies, British 3% Consols represented the majority of trading in London as Britain funded its wars in the 1700s through debt and ...
http://www.globalfinancialdata.com/gfd-world-index-2-0/
Implementation of an Acute Stroke Program Decreases Hospitalization Costs and Length of Stay | StrokeImplementation of an Acute Stroke Program Decreases Hospitalization Costs and Length of Stay | Stroke
There are many ingredients in our stroke project, including a stroke neurologist medical director, stroke nurse, multidisciplinary team, dedicated stroke unit, standing orders, stroke care plan, and experimental stroke protocols. Application of this entire format to other community or academic hospitals may not be feasible, but portions of it could be used at any hospital. Despite the cost and effort required, the dramatic decline in LOS, hospital charges, and apparent costs of short-term stroke care will result in savings to the hospital. At Mercy General Hospital, our charges to Medicare for stroke patients declined $1 621 296 over 3.5 years. More recently, we monitored cost per patient rather than charges and have found lower costs and shorter LOS for patients with stroke standing orders and critical path plans than for those without such plans (unpublished data, 1995).. Other authors have examined the impact of stroke projects on hospital costs. Bowen and Yaste4 reported a 6-month study of ...
http://stroke.ahajournals.org/content/27/6/1040
What is the impact of chronic kidney disease stage and cardiovascular disease on the annual cost of hospital care in moderate...What is the impact of chronic kidney disease stage and cardiovascular disease on the annual cost of hospital care in moderate...
Reliable estimates of the impacts of chronic kidney disease (CKD) stage, with and without cardiovascular disease, on hospital costs are needed to inform health policy. The Study of Heart and Renal Protection (SHARP) randomized trial prospectively collected information on kidney disease progression, serious adverse events and hospital care use in a cohort of patients with moderate-to-severe CKD. In a secondary analysis of SHARP data, the impact of participants CKD stage, non-fatal cardiovascular events and deaths on annual hospital costs (i.e. all hospital admissions, routine dialysis treatments and recorded outpatient/day-case attendances in United Kingdom 2011 prices) were estimated using linear regression. 7,246 SHARP patients (2,498 on dialysis at baseline) from Europe, North America, and Australasia contributed 28,261 years of data. CKD patients without diabetes or vascular disease incurred annual hospital care costs ranging from £403 (95% confidence interval: 345-462) in CKD stages 1-3B to £525
https://bmcnephrol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12882-015-0054-0
Hospital costs associated with atrial fibrillation for ischemic stroke patients aged 18-64 years in the United StatesHospital costs associated with atrial fibrillation for ischemic stroke patients aged 18-64 years in the United States
64, missing geographic region, hospital costs below the 1st or above 99th percentile, and having carotid intervention (N=40,082). We searched the data for AFib and analyzed the costs for non-repeat and repeat stroke admissions separately. We estimated the AFib-associated costs using multivariate regression models controlling for age, sex, geographic region, and Charlson comorbidity index. Results Of the 33,500 non-repeat stroke admissions, 2,407 (7.2%) had AFib. Admissions with AFib cost $4,991 more than those without AFib ($23,770 vs. $18,779). For the 6,582 repeat stroke admissions, 397 (6.0%) had AFib. The costs were $3,260 more for those with AFib than those without ($24,119 vs. $20,929). After controlling for potential confounders, AFib-associated costs for non-repeat stroke admissions were $4,905, representing 20.6% of the total costs for the admissions. Both the hospital costs and the AFib-associated costs were associated with age, but not sex. AFib-associated costs for repeat stroke ...
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/30750
In-hospital cost analysis of prostatic artery embolization compared to transurethral resection of the prostate: Post hoc...In-hospital cost analysis of prostatic artery embolization compared to transurethral resection of the prostate: Post hoc...
TrendTerms displays relevant terms of the abstract of this publication and related documents on a map. The terms and their relations were extracted from ZORA using word statistics. Their timelines are taken from ZORA as well. The bubble size of a term is proportional to the number of documents where the term occurs. Red, orange, yellow and green colors are used for terms that occur in the current document; red indicates high interlinkedness of a term with other terms, orange, yellow and green decreasing interlinkedness. Blue is used for terms that have a relation with the terms in this document, but occur in other documents ...
https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/160669/
CT-guided Vs. Laparoscopic Radiofreqnecy Ablation (rfa): A Comparison of Morbidity and Hospital Cost - SAGES Abstract ArchivesCT-guided Vs. Laparoscopic Radiofreqnecy Ablation (rfa): A Comparison of Morbidity and Hospital Cost - SAGES Abstract Archives
Background: CT-guided radiofrequency ablation (CT-RFA) is presumed to be less morbid and less costly than laparoscopic RFA (L-RFA). CT-RFA, however, has a higher treatment failure rate than L-RFA. This analysis looks at the 30-day morbidity and financial data for CT-RFA versus L-RFA for hepatocellular cancer (HCC) and colorectal liver metastases (CRLM).. Methods: All patients with the diagnosis of CRLM or HCC who underwent CT-RFA or L-RFA at our institution between 2002-2008, were reviewed retrospectively. Demographics, risk stratification and procedural data were analyzed. Hospital financial data was queried for total cost, reimbursement and itemized departmental charges. Patients with CRLM or HCC were evaluated separately.. Results: Twenty-two RFA procedures were performed for the treatment of CRLM (6 CT-RFA; 16 L-RFA) and 15 RFA procedures were performed for the treatment of HCC (5 CT-RFA; 8 L-RFA). For patients with CRLM, there were no significant differences in patient age (p=0.55), ASA ...
https://www.sages.org/meetings/annual-meeting/abstracts-archive/ct-guided-vs-laparoscopic-radiofreqnecy-ablation-rfa-a-comparison-of-morbidity-and-hospital-cost/
Pediatric critical care and hospital costs under reimbursement by diagnosis-related group: Effect of clinical and demographic...Pediatric critical care and hospital costs under reimbursement by diagnosis-related group: Effect of clinical and demographic...
Pediatric critical care and hospital costs under reimbursement by diagnosis-related group: Effect of clinical and demographic characteristics Academic Article Article ...
http://vivo.med.cornell.edu/display/pubid0027169237
Prolonged acute mechanical ventilation and hospital bed utilization in 2020 in the United States: implications for budgets,...Prolonged acute mechanical ventilation and hospital bed utilization in 2020 in the United States: implications for budgets,...
Adult patients on prolonged acute mechanical ventilation (PAMV) comprise 1/3 of all adult MV patients, consume 2/3 of hospital resources allocated to MV population, and are nearly twice as likely to require a discharge to a skilled nursing facility (SNF). Their numbers are projected to double by year 2020. To aid in planning for this growth, we projected their annualized days and costs of hospital use and SNF discharges in year 2020 in the US. We constructed a model estimating the relevant components of hospital utilization. We computed the total days and costs for each component; we also applied the risk for SNF discharge to the total 2020 PAMV population. The underlying assumption was that process of care does not change over the time horizon. We performed Monte Carlo simulations to establish 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the point estimates. Given 2020 projected PAMV volume of 605,898 cases, they will require 3.6 (95% CI 2.7-4.8) million MV, 5.5 (95% CI 4.3-7.0) million ICU and 10.3 (95% CI 8.1
https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6963-8-242
Factors influencing third party payer costs for allogeneic BMT<...Factors influencing third party payer costs for allogeneic BMT<...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Factors influencing third party payer costs for allogeneic BMT. AU - Griffiths, R. I.. AU - Bass, Eric B. AU - Powe, N. R.. AU - Anderson, Gerard F. AU - Goodman, S.. AU - Wingard, J. R.. PY - 1993. Y1 - 1993. N2 - To assess how payer costs for allogeneic BMT relate to patient characteristics and clinical complications, a retrospective cohort study of 402 persons undergoing allogeneic BMT between 1980 and 1987 at a university-based BMT center was designed to determine total inpatient payer costs, including hospital and physician costs, and number of days hospitalized during the first 180 days following BMT. The average total inpatient payer cost (in 1990 dollars) during the first 180 days following BMT was $208 410. Inflation adjusted inpatient payer costs increased from $227 806 in 1980 to $308 545 in 1983, and then decreased to $156 163 by 1987. In multivariate analysis, inpatient payer costs were strongly associated with occurrence of CMV infection (increase of $53 517; p = ...
https://jhu.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/factors-influencing-third-party-payer-costs-for-allogeneic-bmt-3
Hospital Cost Amongst the Insured Vs Uninsured | My BlogHospital Cost Amongst the Insured Vs Uninsured | My Blog
Most people assume that if they have to go to the hospital that it will be a costly experience. While this thought process has some merit, it becomes a bit more complicated when you consider the disparity in hospital cost amongst insured vs. uninsured. Hospitals charge the highest fees to those who are uninsured. Fees can range from 2 times to 5 times more than those fees charged to individuals who are insured. In fact, those who are insured or those who are on Medicare typically receive discounted medical services. There are instances where hospitals provide self pay discounts. However, many times these discounts mean little or nothing when you consider the initial rate that a self pay individual is charged. When a person has insurance, the insurance companies will often negotiate bills for the insured (if the charged price seems excessive). That being the case, hospitals will typically charge a reasonable price (initially) for those who are insured. On the other hand, if you are not ...
http://fundacionjuancuadrado.com/hospital-cost-amongst-the-insured-vs-uninsured/
Health-care costing in the Netherlands | BMC Health Services Research | Full TextHealth-care costing in the Netherlands | BMC Health Services Research | Full Text
The Dutch case-mix office (DBC-Onderhoud) has an import role in calculating national tariffs. To do so, DBC-Onderhoud (DBC-O) needs different kinds of information from different sources as building blocks. There are three cost-components for each DBC: a separate cost-component for the total hospital costs of a DBC; a cost for the main medical specialist; and costs for all supporting medical specialists that are involved in treating the patient.. Every medical association estimates the time needed for each DBC to be produced by their specialty. Matched with the total capacity in the Netherlands, this determines the work load per DBC. The Dutch health authority determines the hourly rate for the medical specialists. Medical associations that represent supporting specialties estimate the time needed per care activity to be produced by their specialty. Matched with the total capacity in the Netherlands, the work load per care activity is determined.. Healthcare providers supply production ...
https://0-bmchealthservres-biomedcentral-com.brum.beds.ac.uk/articles/10.1186/1472-6963-10-S2-A20
Economic evaluation of a community based exercise programme to prevent falls | Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthEconomic evaluation of a community based exercise programme to prevent falls | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
The home based, individually tailored exercise programme resulted in wide ranging benefits for participants receiving the programme. We have reported previously significantly lowered falls risk, lowered risk of moderate injuries, improvements in strength and balance measures, maintenance of physical activity levels and maintenance of falls self efficacy scores as a result of the exercise programme.13 16 Participants in the study also reported a clinically significant improvement in a quality of life measurement-their self assessed physical functioning. Other health benefits of physical activity have been reported.22 Despite the reduction in falls and the fact that falls accounted for just under one third of total hospital costs, there was no significant reduction in healthcare use as a result of the exercise programme. There are a number of explanations for this finding. Firstly, while the exercise programme is demonstrably effective, the falls that were prevented in this study were those ...
http://jech.bmj.com/content/55/8/600
Predictors of acute hospital costs for treatment of ischemic stroke in an academic center. | Base documentaire | BDSPPredictors of acute hospital costs for treatment of ischemic stroke in an academic center. | Base documentaire | BDSP
Background and Purpose-We sought to determine predictors of acute hospital costs in patients presenting with acute ischemic stroke to an academic center using a stroke management team to coordinate care. Methods-Demographic and clinical data were prospectively collected on 191 patients consecutively admitted with acute ischemic stroke. Patients...
http://www.bdsp.ehesp.fr/Base/188044/
Controlling rising hospital costs - University of Missouri LibrariesControlling rising hospital costs - University of Missouri Libraries
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Hospital costs per workers comp claim in North Carolina still higher than in most states - 2012 study | Scudder Seguin, PLLCHospital costs per workers comp claim in North Carolina still higher than in most states - 2012 study | Scudder Seguin, PLLC
A recent study revealed that hospital costs for workers comp claims were higher in North Carolina than they were in many other states.
https://www.scudderandhedrick.net/2014/11/16/hospital-costs-per-workers-comp-claim-in-north-carolina-still-higher-than-in-most-states-2012-study/
Hospital Costs Lead to Fewer Bankruptcies Than Thought | Science and EnterpriseHospital Costs Lead to Fewer Bankruptcies Than Thought | Science and Enterprise
An analysis of medical records and financial data show bankruptcies from costs of hospitalization occur less often than anticipated, but health care expenses overall have other long-term negative effects on personal finances.
https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=32938
Identifying pre- and postoperative predictors of cost and length of st by William A. Ghali, Ruth E. Hall et al.Identifying pre- and postoperative predictors of cost and length of st by William A. Ghali, Ruth E. Hall et al.
Prior studies of resource use for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery have either focused on a limited number of hospitals or have used charges instead of costs. We used a large statewide database (n = 6791) to study predictors of cost and length of stay (LOS) for CABG surgery. We used linear regression to sequentially model (a) specific procedures performed, (b) preoperative patient characteristics, and (c) postoperative events to determine the relative impact of these 3 factors on resource use. We then used the resulting models to calculate adjusted mean hospital costs and LOS. These 3 factors were all significantly associated with resource use. Postoperative events were the greatest determinant of costs, while preoperative characteristics were the greatest determinant of LOS. Despite risk adjustment for these factors, resource use differed significantly across 12 hospitals (mean cost range, $22,200 to $41,900; mean LOS range, 11 to 18 days), suggesting that some institutions may need to
http://escholarship.umassmed.edu/qhs_pp/687/
Patent US20040153418 - System and method for providing access to data from proprietary tools - Google PatentsPatent US20040153418 - System and method for providing access to data from proprietary tools - Google Patents
In certain aspects, the invention features a system and method for providing selected customers of a financial institution with access to secure data. A system embodiment of the present invention may include a computer-implemented market analysis tool adapted to compute, based on a market condition, financial data derived from a publicly available data source for a financial instrument, wherein the market analysis tool is proprietary and accessible only by authorized personnel within the financial institution. In accordance with such an aspect, the system may further include a first computing device configured to: receive, from at least one of the selected customers, a request for the financial institution to perform a predefined function, wherein the selected customer includes a user other than the authorized personnel, wherein the predefined function uses the derived financial data to create a result, and wherein the request is generated at least in part by including an identifier corresponding to the
http://www.google.ca/patents/US20040153418
Module ASB-2510: Accounting Information Systems, Bangor UniversityModule ASB-2510: Accounting Information Systems, Bangor University
An ability to interpret financial data including that arising in the context of the firm or household from accounting statements and data generated in financial markets. The interpretation may involve analysis using statistical and financial functions and procedures such as are routinely available in spreadsheets (eg Microsoft Excel) and statistical packages. It may assume the skills necessary to manipulate financial data and carry out statistical and econometric tests (e.g. estimation and interpretation of asset pricing models; financial modelling and projections; event studies and residuals analysis; elements of time series analysis, such as serial correlation mean reversion, and stochastic volatility ...
https://www.bangor.ac.uk/international/courses/undergrad/modules/ASB-2510
Module ASB-2525: Bank Management and Bank Risk Management, Bangor UniversityModule ASB-2525: Bank Management and Bank Risk Management, Bangor University
An ability to interpret financial data including that arising in the context of the firm or household from accounting statements and data generated in financial markets. The interpretation may involve analysis using statistical and financial functions and procedures such as are routinely available in spreadsheets (eg Microsoft Excel) and statistical packages. It may assume the skills necessary to manipulate financial data and carry out statistical and econometric tests (e.g. estimation and interpretation of asset pricing models; financial modelling and projections; event studies and residuals analysis; elements of time series analysis, such as serial correlation mean reversion, and stochastic volatility ...
https://www.bangor.ac.uk/courses/undergraduate-modules/ASB-2525/201920
Financial Data Collection | Invest SuccessFinancial Data Collection | Invest Success
Do you need to know an easy method of getting cash and having a steady earnings too? What you are able to do is to initially put in your individual money or you may promote for buyers assuring them high return if they make investments by you. A well-written and convincing business plan (and pitch ) presents what you are promoting to traders intimately; but theyre investing in your enterprise, not only a plan.. Republicans offered the 2017 tax legislation as rocket gasoline for American funding and development, saying that corporations - flush with money from decrease tax rates - would channel money back into the financial system by building factories and workplaces and investing in equipment, which might help companies grow and provide winnings for staff.. Most SBICs, nonetheless, take into account a wide variety of funding opportunities. Financing Proceeds-The SBA has established rules designed to make sure that investment funds which can be used to purchase securities go directly to the ...
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Plotting Financial Data Chart with Plotly Python Library for Jupyter Notebook | Refinitiv DevelopersPlotting Financial Data Chart with Plotly Python Library for Jupyter Notebook | Refinitiv Developers
This article demonstrates how to use Plotly Python library to plot interactive chart on Jupyter Notebook using dataset from Eikon Data API
https://developers.refinitiv.com/en/article-catalog/article/plotting-financial-data-chart-with-plotly-python-on-classic-jupy
Plus itPlus it
RESULTS A total of 30,266 questionnaires were returned, representing , 70% of all drug-treated diabetic patients receiving medication in the period studied. Of the diabetic patients, 63% were treated by oral medication only, 31% by insulin only, and 6% by a combination of insulin and oral agents. Of the patients in whom diabetes was diagnosed at ≥ 30 years of age, 75% were treated at health centers, whereas , 60% of those in whom diabetes was diagnosed at , 30 years of age were treated at outpatient clinics. The mean annual frequency of visits was 4.0 for patients receiving insulin treatment and 3.3 for patients receiving treatment with oral medications. The diabetic patients used 1.5 million hospital inpatient days per year, which was 13% of the total inpatient days in Finland. Of the inpatient days, 20% were for diabetes as the principal cause, 52% for diabetes-related diseases, and 28% for causes unrelated to diabetes. The direct costs of the health care of drug-treated diabetic patients in ...
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/19/5/494
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Between 1993 and 2014, 52,011 patients underwent primary AA fusion. Over this period, there was a 111% increase in annual number of primary surgeries performed. An estimated 1372 patients underwent revision AA fusion between 2006 and 2014, and over this time period there was a 6% decrease in the number of revisions performed annually. The 65-84 year-old age group increased as a proportion of primary AA fusions in the US from 35.9% of all AA fusions in 1997 to 44.2% in 2015, an increase of 23%. The mean hospital cost for primary AA surgery increased 32% between 2006 and 2015, while the mean cost for revision AA surgery increased by 35% between 2006 and 2014. Between 2006 and 2014, the mean hospital charge for primary AA surgery increased by 67%; the mean charge for revision surgery over that same period increased by 57%. Between 2006 and 2014, the mean age for primary AA fusions was 60 years, while the mean age for revision AA fusions was 52 years. The mean LOS for both procedures decreased over ...
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Dr. Lonna Denny DC | Spine Pain Relief Center - Back Surgery: Too Many, Too Costly and Too IneffectiveDr. Lonna Denny DC | Spine Pain Relief Center - Back Surgery: Too Many, Too Costly and Too Ineffective
Dr. Deyo found the mean hospital costs alone for surgical decompression and complex fusions ranged from $23,724 for the former to $80,888 for the latter. When combined with surgical costs, medications, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), rehabilitation and disability, the average spine surgery case approaches $100,000 or more. The direct costs are astronomical and may reach as high as $169,000 for a lumbar fusion and $112,000 for a cervical fusion.. Fortune 500 companies spend over $500 million a year on avoidable back surgeries for their workers and lose as much as $1.5 billion in indirect costs associated with these procedures in the form of missed work and lost productivity, according to a two-year study by Consumers Medical Resource (CMR). The study, Back Surgery: A Costly Fortune 500 Burden, found that one out of three workers recommended for back surgery said they avoided an unnecessary procedure after being given independent, high-quality medical research on their diagnosed condition and ...
https://www.sfchiro.org/back-surgery-too-many-too-costly-and-too-ineffective/
When Doctors And Patients Share In Decisions, Hospital Costs Go Up - RedorbitWhen Doctors And Patients Share In Decisions, Hospital Costs Go Up - Redorbit
Since the 1980s, doctors and patients have been encouraged to share decision making. Proponents argue that this approach promotes doctor-patient communication, enhances patient satisfaction, improves health outcomes, and even may lower cost.. Yet, a hospital-based study found that patients who want to participate in their medical decisions end up spending more time in the hospital and raising costs of their hospital stay by an average of $865.. The findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, came from the first hospital-based study to examine how patients desire to participate in medical decisions affects their use of health care resources.. There are about 35 million hospitalizations each year in the United States. If 30 percent of those patients chose to share decision making rather than delegate that role to their doctors, it would mean $8.7 billion of additional costs per year, according to the study.. The result that everyone would have liked, that patients who are more engaged in ...
http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1112857912/when-doctors-and-patients-share-in-decisions-hospital-costs-go-up/
private room hospital costprivate room hospital cost
Is it possible to pay for a private room if you go into hospital and get treated under the NHS? A planned Caesarean would cost more money, as would any emergency procedures for you or your baby and if you need an obstetrician, youll need to pay their fees on top. Inpatient treatment drugs. Just by comparing the costs quoted online from two different private healthcare providers, it is easy to see that there are a wide variety of prices available for private operations, even within the same geographical area. Room fees. If theres something you are looking for which doesnt fall in to the health topics listed here, use the navigation above. If you would prefer a semi-private (2 people/room) or private room, you can request this when you arrive at the hospital in labour. Here is a list of typical prices for common operations*. You are responsible for knowing what coverage is available through your private insurance plan(s). Prices can … However, private and semi-private rooms are not always ...
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IOM Phase II Report Says Regional Adjustments in Medicare Payments Could Lead to Difference in Hospital CostsIOM Phase II Report Says Regional Adjustments in Medicare Payments Could Lead to Difference in Hospital Costs
A new report released by the Institute of Medicine reveals that following the recommendation of its earlier report could lead to increase in payments.
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Cost Management - Improve Hospital Costs | SCP HealthCost Management - Improve Hospital Costs | SCP Health
Identify opportunities to control resource expenditure and improve your overall cost of hospital ownership with help from experts at SCP.
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Expanding Medicaid Trims Hospitals Costs Of Caring For Uninsured on NewsHub.orgExpanding Medicaid Trims Hospitals Costs Of Caring For Uninsured on NewsHub.org
St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md., is one of the 131 hospitals run by Ascension Health. Its a not-for-profit, Catholic health care system that treats many low-income patients who cant pay their bills. News on NewsHub.org
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Minimal residual diseaseMinimal residual disease
7 Testing by hospitals and other labs *7.1 Where done. *7.2 Cost ... Testing by hospitals and other labs[edit]. Where done[edit]. ... Cost[edit]. MRD testing is technically demanding and time consuming; the tests are expensive, so are usually available only ... If one visits hospital and gets tested for something - e.g. a blood count - most of the tests are used often, and have been ...
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Assertive community treatmentAssertive community treatment
a b Test, M. A., & Stein, L. I. (1980). Alternative to mental hospital treatment. III. Social cost. Archives of General ... a b Weisbrod, B. A., Test, M. A., & Stein, L. I. (1980). Alternative to mental hospital treatment. II. Economic benefit-cost ... The cost-effectiveness of ACT was relatively easy to demonstrate in the early days, when psychiatric hospital beds were more ... Stein, L. I., & Test, M. A. (1976). Retraining hospital staff for work in a community program in Wisconsin. Hospital and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assertive_community_treatment
Spinal fusionSpinal fusion
In-hospital mortality was 0.25% [5]. Costs[edit]. Costs associated with spinal fusion vary depending on the medical institution ... and hospital charges.[10] The average total hospital costs for spinal fusions increased from $24,676 in 1998 to $81,960 in 2008 ... hospital stay duration, and cost of the implant.[11] Additionally, a 2009 systematic review on surgery for lower back pain ... Average length of hospital stay was 3.7 days-2.7 days for primary cervical fusion, 8.5 days for primary thoracic fusion, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_fusion
Gun violenceGun violence
... gun violence cost U.S. taxpayers approximately $516 million in direct hospital costs.[81] ... Economic costs[edit]. The economic cost of gun-related violence in the United States is $229 billion a year,[52][qualify ... "The Hospital Costs of Firearm Assaults". Urban Institute. Retrieved 12 September 2015.. ... Costs of gun-related violence[edit]. Violence committed with guns leads to significant public health, psychological, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence
Oxygen plantOxygen plant
An unquestionable advantage of adsorption-based oxygen plants is the low cost of oxygen produced in the cases where there are ... Not suitable for hospital use, where oxygen purity is important. "Membrane oxygen plants - Technical Characteristics". ... In addition to customer saving on the product oxygen cost, there is a collateral economic effect based on extremely low ... Low operating costs; No special workshop requirements; Easy installation and integration into an existing air system. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_plant
Patients Beyond BordersPatients Beyond Borders
Part Two: Most visited hospitals and their specialties. An overview of 150 hospitals in 22 countries offering international ... Data on international patient flow and comparative costs of medical procedures have been cited by research, news and reference ... comparative treatment costs. Part One: What medical travelers should know; how to vet international doctors, surgeons and ... internationally accredited hospitals and corresponding medical specialties, subspecialties and procedures. Patients Beyond ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patients_Beyond_Borders
Ascension (company)Ascension (company)
Elizabeth Hospital, Appleton, Wisconsin Borgess Health, Kalamazoo, Michigan Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee Providence ... escalating pharmaceutical costs; industry shifts from inpatient to outpatient care models, and from fee-for-service models to ... "Largest hospitals and health systems in America , 2019". Beckers Hospital Review. Retrieved 2020-03-24. "Our History". www. ... hospital data deal raises privacy fears," November 12, 2019 CNBC, retrieved March 30, 2020 "Ascension Hospitals Well ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_(company)
BermudaBermuda
The Bermuda Hospitals Board operates the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, located in Paget Parish, and the Mid-Atlantic ... The World Factbook lists the average cost of a house in June 2003 as $976,000, while real estate agencies have claimed that ... Bermuda Hospitals Board. Retrieved 4 December 2012. "Hospital reveals harm figures". Royal Gazette. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 15 ... The Bermuda Hospitals Board says that they were not vital in Bermuda because of its small size.Nurse practitioners on the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda
H.F. Lee Energy ComplexH.F. Lee Energy Complex
Cherry Hospital Dams. The Quaker Neck Dam was removed in May 1998. The work cost $222,000. The result was to restore access for ... Bowman 2001, p. 2. Dam Removal Costs - CRMC. Ferreri 2011, p. 18. Gleick 2000, p. 126. Wildman 2015, p. 32. Quaker Neck and ... The Cherry Hospital Dam was also removed, which restored another 76 miles (122 km) of streams for use by anadromous fish in ... Dam Removal Costs, CRMC: Coastal Resources Management Council Narragansett Bay Estuary Program, retrieved 2018-06-23 CS1 maint ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.F._Lee_Energy_Complex
Shadowboxing (2005 film)Shadowboxing (2005 film)
The operation costs $30,000. Artyom does not have this much money, and neither does the doctor. Artyom had been like a son to ... Artem ends up in a hospital; the doctor, who has fallen in love with him, visits him and tells him the diagnosis: Retinal ... Valiyev says: "You're not in a hospital." They are going to torture Artyom to learn where the money is, and then continue to ... Artyom is badly wounded, arrested and taken to a hospital. Next day the FSB arrests Valiyev. After some years have passed, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowboxing_(2005_film)
Vivian LeeVivian Lee
Kolata, Gina (2015-09-07). "What Are a Hospital's Costs? Utah System Is Trying to Learn". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. ... "Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts - Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA". Massgeneral.org. Retrieved ... She is also a member of the advisory boards of the Massachusetts General Hospital and on the Defense Health Board of the ... In 2016, University of Utah was ranked first among university hospitals in quality and safety, with NYU Langone and Mayo Clinic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Lee
Mark McClellanMark McClellan
Conversely, retrospective cost sharing allows for possible supply induced demand, minimizing the hospital's incentive to ... Lower costs equaled lower reimbursement; however, higher costs led to higher reimbursements only if the costs were driven by a ... hospital inpatient prospective payment systems for acute care hospitals and the long-term care hospital prospective payment ... Higher generosity is usually associated with greater retrospective limits on cost sharing. In the 1990s, high-tech hospitals ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_McClellan
Gun violence in the United StatesGun violence in the United States
In 2010, gun violence cost U.S. taxpayers about $516 million in direct hospital costs. At least eleven assassination attempts ... "The Hospital Costs of Firearm Assaults". Urban Institute. Retrieved September 12, 2015. Gienapp, William E (2002). Abraham ... In 2000, the costs of gun violence in the United States were estimated to be on the order of $100 billion per year, plus the ... Taken together, the best available evidence suggests that the costs of gun violence in America are on the order of $100 billion ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States
Deltex Medical GroupDeltex Medical Group
Each probe costs about £100. It secured approval from the NHS Supply Chain in 2012 after a tender process, to sell cardiac ... In November 2016 an NHS hospital bought six, the largest order since 2014. The cash crisis affecting the NHS has meant that few ... The company claims that it has been shown to reduce postoperative complications and reduce length of hospital stay. According ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltex_Medical_Group
Multiplex (company)Multiplex (company)
"Inquiry into safety issues at flagship hospitals". 17 September 2019. "Public inquiry into hospital sites". Scottish Government ... "Covid costs Multiplex £149m". www.theconstructionindex.co.uk. Retrieved 30 April 2021. "Multiplex - About Multiplex - Learn ... "High Court judge appointed to head public inquiry into Edinburgh's Sick Kids hospital and Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth hospital". ... A public inquiry was also launched in 2019, looking at the QEUH and the delayed Royal Hospital for Children and Young People. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplex_(company)
MedicaidMedicaid
... of total aggregate inpatient hospital costs in the United States.[87] At $8,000, the mean cost per stay billed to Medicaid was ... a cost per person average is only a rough measure of actual cost of care. The annual cost of care will vary state to state ... 4.5 days), and higher hospital costs per stay ($11,766 vs. $9,032).[78] Medicaid super-utilizers were more likely than other ... National Inpatient Hospital Costs: The Most Expensive Conditions by Payer, 2011. HCUP Statistical Brief #160. Agency for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid
SurgerySurgery
... hospital costs were highest for the surgical service line; the surgical service line costs were $17,600 in 2003 and projected ... These stays accounted for 48% of the total $387 billion in hospital costs.[16] ... Inpatient surgery is performed in a hospital, and the patient stays at least one night in the hospital after the surgery. ... In 2011, of the 38.6 million hospital stays in U.S. hospitals, 29% included at least one operating room procedure. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resection_
HighmarkHighmark
"Insurer's Cost-Cut Plan: Buy Hospitals". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18 ... This began a period of conflict between Highmark and UPMC, which had expanded from hospitals into insurance, and caused ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highmark
Specialty drugs in the United StatesSpecialty drugs in the United States
This cost hospitals millions of dollars.[81] There is a debate about whether specialty drugs should be managed as a medical ... High cost[edit]. Drugs are most typically defined as specialty because they are expensive.[3] They are high cost "both in total ... The high cost of specialty pharmaceuticals is one of their defining characteristics; as such, cost-containment is high on the ... The 2007 pricing model brought "Acthar in line with the cost of treatments for other very rare diseases".[89] The cost for a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specialty_drugs
Robot economicsRobot economics
However, medical robots can increase costs. The market was valued at $1,781 million in 2013. Hospital and pharmacy robots ... Medical robots can be categorized in five segments: surgery, rehabilitation, non-invasive radiosurgery, hospital and pharmacy ... A cost-minimisation analysis". BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 121 (12): 1546-53. doi:10.1111/1471- ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_economics
Charles ChiangCharles Chiang
Later that year, Chiang and fellow legislator Lee Chen-nan accused Taipei Veterans General Hospital superintendent Chang Mau- ... CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) Low, Stephanie (19 October 2002). "Legislators look to cut personnel costs". Taipei ... CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) Chuang, Jimmy (19 May 2003). "Allegations haunt hospital manager". Taipei Times. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Chiang
IshakaIshaka
... Adventist Hospital - A 110-bed community hospital affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church A branch of Stanbic ... "Banks merge branches to cut costs". Daily Monitor. Kampala. Retrieved 23 May 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) ... Bushenyi Kabwohe List of hospitals in Uganda Bushenyi District UBOS, . (27 August 2014). "The Population of The Regions of the ... EDN (23 May 2016). "About Ishaka Adventist Hospital". Electives.net (EDN). Retrieved 23 May 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishaka
Terminal illnessTerminal illness
Additionally, it lowers hospital admissions costs. However, needs for palliative care are often unmet whether due to lack of ... Smith, Samantha; Brick, Aoife; O'Hara, Sinéad; Normand, Charles (1 February 2014). "Evidence on the cost and cost-effectiveness ... The cost of healthcare for end-of-life patients is 13% of annual healthcare spending in the U.S. However, of the group of ... While hospitals focus on treating the disease, hospices focus on improving patient quality-of-life until death. A common ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_illness
CarillionCarillion
This was confirmed on 26 September 2018, with completion of the hospital in 2020 likely to cost an additional £120m, due to ... Oakville-Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, Brampton Civic Hospital and Sault Area Hospital. The Alberta government made $8.9m ... Aaron, Morby (20 April 2018). "Carillion's Midlands Pf2 hospital to cost extra £125m". Construction Enquirer. Retrieved 20 ... Morby, Aaron (17 January 2020). "NAO raises alarm over cost of finishing Carillion hospitals". Construction Enquirer. Retrieved ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carillion
Massoud FouladiMassoud Fouladi
"Hospitals do it the John Lewis way". Sunday Times. 19 June 2011. Retrieved 3 October 2014. "Board of Directors". Circle ... "Transforming quality and costs at Hinchingbrooke". Nuffield Trust. Retrieved 3 October 2014. "Circle offers its magic solution ... He practices as an Ophthalmologist at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust and was Chairman of the Association ... Health Policy Summit 2013 on how quality has been improved whilst maintaining value for money at Hinchingbrooke Hospital. He ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massoud_Fouladi
Neel ShahNeel Shah
Shah founded the nonprofit Costs of Care in 2009 dedicated to providing better healthcare at lower cost. He also founded the ... Shah has demonstrated that hospital management and even hospital architecture can influence c-section rates, and he has ... He completed his residency training at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. As an undergraduate, ... In 2014, Shah was named one of the "40 smartest people in healthcare" by Becker's Hospital Review. "CV Neel Shah, MD, MPP" (PDF ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neel_Shah
Grace GiffordGrace Gifford
In 1950 she was brought to St Vincent's Hospital, then in the city centre. She convalesced in a nursing home, which she did not ... Grace was paid £700, plus costs. At around this time she joined the Old Dublin Society, where she met the noted Irish ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Gifford
Henry J. AaronHenry J. Aaron
ISBN 978-0-8157-1777-5. Appearances on C-SPAN Roberts, Russ (November 15, 2007). "Henry Aaron on Health Care Costs". EconTalk. ... 1984: The painful prescription: rationing hospital care, WB Schwartz. 2010: Politics and the professors: The great society in ... Fitzgerald, Jay (January 25, 2015). "Costs derail Vermont's dream of a single-payer health plan". Boston Globe. Retrieved 20 ... Aaron, Henry J. and Schwartz (1984). "The Painful Prescription: Rationing Hospital Care". eweb:51353. Retrieved 2020-11-11. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_J._Aaron
Jimmy CarterJimmy Carter
Edward Kennedy [D., Mass.] which are estimated to cost at least $40 billion annually. "Hospital cost control". Congressional ... "House kills Carter hospital cost control plan". Congressional Quarterly Almanac, 96th Congress 1st Session....1979. ... "Hospital cost control legislation dies". Congressional Quarterly Almanac, 95th Congress 2nd Session....1978. Congressional ... Carter was the first U.S. president to be born in a hospital. He was the eldest son of Bessie Lillian (née Gordy) and James ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter
IndinavirIndinavir
... cost about $12 for a daily dose, which is 24% less than Invirase and 33% less than Norvir.[14] Because the company ... They sold it to Stadtalnder's Pharmacy and limited quantities to Veteran Administration's hospitals and some managed-care ... In response to this hefty price, Merck stated that it cost a lot to research and develop the drug, and they did not have enough ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indinavir
Metropolitan State Hospital (Massachusetts)Metropolitan State Hospital (Massachusetts)
It was closed in January 1992 as a result of the state's cost-cutting policy of closing its mental hospitals and moving ... The Metropolitan State Hospital was an American public hospital for the mentally ill, on grounds that extended across parts of ... "Backman: Hospital Murder Data Missing" Boston Globe Aug 15, 1980 *^ "Mental patient held in dismemberment murder". St. Joseph ... The complex cost $1.8 million and was considered the most modern mental health facility in the country.[3] ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_State_Hospital_(Massachusetts)
Alternative medicineAlternative medicine
"Latest Survey Shows More Hospitals Offering Complementary and Alternative Medicine Services" (Press release). American Hospital ... Sobel, D.S. (2000). "Chapter 28: The Cost-effectiveness of Mind-body Medicine Interventions". In Mayer, E.A.; Saper, C.B. (eds ... and hospital providers". American Journal of Health Promotion. 12 (2): 112-22. doi:10.4278/0890-1171-12.2.112. PMID 10174663.. ... of American hospitals offered alternative therapies, up from 27 percent in 2005, and 25% in 2004.[144][145] More than 70% of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative_medicine
GracelandGraceland
... itself cost $500,000 a year in upkeep, and expenses had dwindled Elvis' and Priscilla's daughter Lisa Marie's ... Jude Children's Research Hospital. *St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral. *Shelby Farms. *Stax Museum ... to cover the extra security costs due to a larger than usual crowd.[35][36] ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graceland
Positron emission tomographyPositron emission tomography
CostEdit. This section needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ... Few hospitals and universities are capable of maintaining such systems, and most clinical PET is supported by third-party ... Because of cost as well as the marginal utility of detecting cancer metastases in companion animals (the primary use of this ... One of the disadvantages of PET scanners is their operating cost.[3] A similar imaging process to PET is single-photon emission ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PET_scan
Cushings diseaseCushing's disease
Patients older than 64 years were more likely to have an adverse outcome and prolonged hospital stay. Women were 0.3 times less ... this test is used only as a last resort due to its high cost and complexity.[9] ... A study of 3,525 cases of TSS for Cushing's disease in the nationally representative sample of US hospitals between 1993 and ... Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital. 50: 137-95.. Reprinted in Cushing H (April 1969). "The basophil adenomas of the ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushing's_disease
AcneAcne
It is generally not a first-line choice due to its higher cost and a lack of clear superiority over other antibiotics.[1][15] ... The Leeds Teaching Hospitals. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 November 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2015.. ... The costs and social impact of acne are substantial. In the United States, acne vulgaris is responsible for more than 5 million ... doctor visits and costs over US$2.5 billion each year in direct costs.[13] Similarly, acne vulgaris is responsible for 3.5 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acne_vulgaris
Unisex public toiletUnisex public toilet
"Unisex toilets in schools should be avoided at all costs". independent.co.uk. London: The Independent. Retrieved December 20, ... said the government must make sure that they have access to medical care and other facilities like separate wards in hospitals ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unisex_public_toilet
RituximabRituximab
In the United Kingdom this amount cost the NHS approximately £182 in 2015.[9] The average wholesale price in the United States ... "Hospitals Furious at Cancer-Drug Price Hikes". Time. Archived from the original on 20 October 2015. Retrieved 26 October 2015 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rituximab
Atascadero State HospitalAtascadero State Hospital
"Total quality management and the reduction of inpatient violence and costs in a forensic psychiatric hospital". Psychiatric ... Atascadero State Hospital (ASH) is located on the Central Coast of California, in San Luis Obispo County, halfway between Los ... "Atascadero State Hospital patient killed in attack". U-T San Diego. May 29, 2014. "Atascadero Chamber of Commerce - Economic ... SVPs were housed in ASH until the new state hospital in Coalinga opened around 2004. In the mid-1980s, a US Department of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atascadero_State_Hospital
Health in NepalHealth in Nepal
Immunization services can be obtained at free of cost from EPI clinics in hospitals, other health centers, mobile and outreach ... The government has provided all vaccines and immunization related logistics without any cost to hospitals, the private ... Hospital-based nutrition management and rehabilitation The hospital-based nutrition management and rehabilitation program ... The poor and excluded have limited access to basic health care due to its high costs and low availability. The demand for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Nepal
ছারপোকা - উইকিপিডিয়াছারপোকা - উইকিপিডিয়া
University of Sydney and Westmead Hospital Department of Medical Entomology web-page on bedbugs ... ২] Business Week "The Cost of Bed Bugs" 8 November 2007, 6:16PM EST ...
https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/ছারপোকা
Healthcare in BrazilHealthcare in Brazil
In 2012, 66% of the country's hospitals, 70% of its 485,000 hospital beds, and 87% of its 723 specialized hospitals belonged to ... To expand the access of the population to drugs, incentives have been offered for marketing generic products, which cost an ... the public hospital infrastructure relies on a vast network of small hospitals. Over 55% of public hospitals have less than 50 ... The public hospital infrastructure required hospitals to be spread over a territory of 8.516 million square kilometres (3.288 ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Brazil
Matador (Danish TV series)Matador (Danish TV series)
This action almost cost him his marriage to Ingeborg. As his business grows, Mads, who's originally honest and well-meaning, is ... Upon learning of a change in the Danish army's command structure, he suffers a fatal stroke while in hospital. Lauritz' failure ... This lack of responsibility towards his family once nearly cost him his son's life, and his marriage. It was during Daniel ... arrive and inform the guests that they have just gotten Jørgen out of jail and had him committed to a hospital. Kristen mostly ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matador_
HM Prison PentridgeHM Prison Pentridge
"Mont Park Psychiatric Hospital Precinct (listing RNE100229)". Australia Heritage Places Inventory. Department of Sustainability ... Jika Jika, opened in 1980 at a cost of 7 million Australian dollars, was a 'gaol within a gaol' maximum security section, ... The unit comprised electronic doors, closed-circuit TV and remote locking, designed to keep staff costs to a minimum and ... E - The hospital, later turned into a dormitory division housing short term prisoners ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentridge_Prison
MedicineMedicine
Hospital medicine is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Physicians whose primary professional focus is hospital ... "Transparency called key to uniting cost control, quality improvement". Managed Care ... Panorama of Siena's Santa Maria della Scala Hospital, one of Europe's oldest hospitals. During the Middle Ages, the Catholic ... The Persian Bimaristan hospitals were an early example of public hospitals.[49][50] ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical
Smoking banSmoking ban
In addition, such laws may reduce health care costs,[3] improve work productivity, and lower the overall cost of labour in the ... Smoking was first restricted in schools, hospitals, trains, buses and train stations in Turkey in 1996. In 2008 a more ... Smoking ban 'costs pub takings' 17 December 2007, BBC News *^ "The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke ... It has also been found that treatment of tobacco related diseases and the loss of productivity caused therein cost the country ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-smoking_legislation
Los Angeles County Department of Health ServicesLos Angeles County Department of Health Services
... the General Hospital (now LAC+USC Medical Center) in 1932, two military hospitals, including the Harbor General Hospital (now ... "L.A. County expands no-cost healthcare". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 23 October 2012 ... In 2012, the DHS system had a hospital bed capacity of 1,465. DHS hospitals had 74,811 admissions, 1,251,553 outpatient visits ... American Hospital Association. 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.. *^ "Quick Report - H-UCLA MC". AHA Data Healthcare Viewer. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County_Department_of_Health_Services
Queen Elizabeth University HospitalQueen Elizabeth University Hospital
"Hospital to cost taxpayer £842m". news.bbc.co.uk. BBC News. 19 February 2008. Retrieved 9 November 2015.. ... List of hospitals in Scotland. The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH) is a 1,677-bed acute hospital located in ... Children's hospital[edit]. Main article: Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow. The Royal Hospital for Children, while retaining ... The hospital is built on the site of the former Southern General Hospital and opened at the end of April 2015. The hospital ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_University_Hospital
Ohio State UniversityOhio State University
It is home to the James Cancer Hospital, a cancer research institute and one of the National Cancer Institute's forty-one ... This allows the entirety of donations made to the cancer fund to solely support patients without hindrance from outside costs. ... and various therapies at the hospital.[73] Unique to BuckeyeThon is the use of an operational fund separate from the main ... at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Although BuckeyeThon is operated entirely by student volunteers, it is ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ohio_State_University
Lyme diseaseLyme disease
Report of a case observed in Brazil]. Revista do Hospital das Clinicas (in Portuguese). 48 (4): 170-4. PMID 8284588.. ... Following approval of the vaccine, its entry in clinical practice was slow for a variety of reasons, including its cost, which ... Neurologic complications of Lyme disease may be treated with doxycycline as it can be taken by mouth and has a lower cost, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease
Penyakit paru-paru obstruktif kronik Bahasa Melayu, ensiklopedia bebasPenyakit paru-paru obstruktif kronik Bahasa Melayu, ensiklopedia bebas
Lomborg B (2013). Global problems, local solutions : costs and benefits. Cambridge University Press. m/s. 143. ISBN 978-1-107- ... Bagi mereka yang mempunyai tempoh yang semakin teruk, peningkatan penggunaan ubat-ubatan dan kemasukan ke hospital mungkin ...
https://ms.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penyakit_paru-paru_obstruktif_kronik
ChiropracticChiropractic
... for hospital days, 62% for outpatient surgeries and procedures, and 85% for pharmaceutical costs when compared with ... Cost-effectiveness. A 2012 systematic review suggested that the use of spine manipulation in clinical practice is a cost- ... A 2006 systematic cost-effectiveness review found that the reported cost-effectiveness of spinal manipulation in the United ... Utilization of chiropractic care is sensitive to the costs incurred by the co-payment by the patient.[1] The use of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractors
RadiographyRadiography
It is a relatively low-cost investigation with a high diagnostic yield. The difference between soft and hard body parts stems ... imaging modalities such as PET and MRI are sometimes grouped in radiography because the radiology department of hospitals ... ease of installation and low cost. The maximum range of a high-energy photon such as an X-ray in matter is infinite; at every ... many kinds of staff conducted radiography in hospitals, including physicists, photographers, physicians, nurses, and engineers ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_imaging
Medical deviceMedical device
Failure to meet cost targets will lead to substantial losses for an organisation. In addition, with global competition, the R&D ... Employed primarily by hospitals, BMETs are the people responsible for maintaining a facility's medical equipment. BMET mainly ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_device
Death of Dale EarnhardtDeath of Dale Earnhardt
The official NASCAR report,[38] which had cost over a million dollars and was published on August 21, 2001, concluded that ... However, in severe cases, the driver may be sent directly to the emergency trauma room at the hospital near the circuit. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Dale_Earnhardt
Prison Break (season 4)Prison Break (season 4)
The team finds a water pipe blocking their way and manages to get across it, but at the cost of Bellick's life. ... They take Burrows outside a hospital and Mahone covers for Tancredi to take the necessary tools, but is arrested by the FBI ... Burrows' team tracks Christina to the Indian embassy and enter it at the cost of Bagwell being beaten. Christina convinces ... Meanwhile, the FBI interrogates Self in the hospital until Christina's assistant, posed as a doctor, arrives and injects him ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Your_Number
East New York, BrooklynEast New York, Brooklyn
Hospitals/Gotham Health, East New York; Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center; and Kings County Hospital Center.[72] ... This coalition advocated that vacant New York City owned land be provided at no cost for the development of new affordable ... There are several hospitals in the East New York area, including NYC Health + ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_New_York,_Brooklyn
My Hero Academia (season 2)My Hero Academia (season 2)
Endeavor and Gran Torino defeat a Nomu while the three UA students defeat Stain - at the cost of serious injuries to Tenya and ... Iida already left to see his brother at the hospital and did not attend the award ceremony. After everyone went home to recover ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Hero_Academia_(season_2)
How Has the ACA Changed Finances for Different Types of Hospitals? Updated Insights from 2015 Cost Report Data | Urban InstituteHow Has the ACA Changed Finances for Different Types of Hospitals? Updated Insights from 2015 Cost Report Data | Urban Institute
5.0 million per hospital, reduced costs of uncompensated care by $3.2 million per hospital, and improved average operating ... How Has the ACA Changed Finances for Different Types of Hospitals? Updated Insights from 2015 Cost Report Data Research Report ... profit margins were strongest for small hospitals, for-profit and non-federal-government-operated hospitals, and hospitals ... How Has the ACA Changed Finances for Different Types of Hospitals? Updated Insights from 2015 Cost Report Data. ...
https://www.urban.org/research/publication/how-has-aca-changed-finances-different-types-hospitals-updated-insights-2015-cost-report-data
Reducing Hospital Costs - The Washington PostReducing Hospital Costs - The Washington Post
The hospital more than $750,000 a year. The hospital, at no additional cost according to administrators there, has been able to ... Hospitals employing the system do not need a computer, although a computer is needed to construct it. What hospitals do need is ... The system, adopted in May here by Greater Southeast Community Hospital, has enabled the hospital to increase its occupancy ... it has been only recently that hospitals have come under pressure to find ways to minimize their costs and increase their ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/07/18/reducing-hospital-costs/48d57707-8b0c-4cd6-af46-1316558ed9a5/
Pioneers Promote Technology To Cut Hospital Supply Costs - WSJPioneers Promote Technology To Cut Hospital Supply Costs - WSJ
... been waging a nationwide campaign to introduce the sort of technology found in grocery stores into keeping track of hospital ... But try reordering a bandage in most hospitals, and you get a logistics nightmare. ...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB865894048938031500
Medicare and hospital beds: Coverage, DMEs, suppliers, and costsMedicare and hospital beds: Coverage, DMEs, suppliers, and costs
... including a hospital bed, if the items are medically necessary. Costs vary between plans. Read more. ... If a person has original Medicare, Part B covers a hospital bed and other DME. The out-of-pocket cost is 20%, and the annual ... There are conditions relating to coverage and costs. Because a hospital bed is a large piece of DME, Medicare prefers to pay a ... It then examines the Medicare policy of renting hospital beds, as well as factors that affect DME cost. Lastly, it tells how to ...
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/does-medicare-cover-hospital-beds
Medicaid Hospital Cost ReportsMedicaid Hospital Cost Reports
All Illinois hospitals enrolled in Medicaid must file a Hospital Statement of Cost. The cost reports are due in the Bureau of ... All hospitals which have a distinct unit, such as a psychiatric or rehabilitation unit, must file separate cost reports for ... Downloadable Cost Reports We recommend downloading (.xls) MS Excel files and opening them using MS Excel or other spreadsheet ... Any questions concerning the filing of cost reports should be addressed to:. Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family ...
https://www.illinois.gov/hfs/MedicalProviders/CostReports/Pages/HospitalProviders.aspx
Hospital Travel Costs Scheme | nidirectHospital Travel Costs Scheme | nidirect
... need Health Service treatment at a hospital, Health Service centre or private clinic and have been under the care of a ... You may get financial help from the Hospital Travel Costs Scheme if youre on a low income, ... Hospital Travel Costs Scheme. You may get financial help from the Hospital Travel Costs Scheme if youre on a low income, need ... The hospital should tell you the mileage rate for petrol costs for private transport. ...
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/hospital-travel-costs-scheme
Drug Costs Are Target of Long Beach Hospital Pharmacist - latimesDrug Costs Are Target of Long Beach Hospital Pharmacist - latimes
Drug Costs Are Target of Long Beach Hospital Pharmacist. Melinda Klein scours studies and patrols the halls in an effort to ... With drug costs threatening to consume more of their budgets, hospitals are turning to experts like Klein. At Memorial, she ... Klein recommended keeping Xopenex off the hospitals list of preferred medicines, or formulary. A hospital committee of doctors ... Although Klein does not have the final say on which medicines make it onto the hospitals list of preferred drugs, her opinion ...
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/jan/03/business/fi-drugcosts3
Medicare and hospital stays: Coverage and out-of-pocket costsMedicare and hospital stays: Coverage and out-of-pocket costs
... including hospitals. Daily coinsurance applies, as well as a deductible. Find out more. ... A coinsurance cost applies after day 60 of the hospital stay. After day 90, the costs become the responsibility of the ... Ways to reduce costs. It may be possible for a person to pay less during an inpatient hospital stay - some Medigap or Medicare ... Funding for hospital stays comes from Medicare Part A. Before Medicare covers the costs, a doctor needs to confirm that it is ...
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-much-does-medicare-pay-for-a-hospital-stay
Some costs of National Childrens Hospital completely misestimated - Independent.ieSome costs of National Children's Hospital 'completely misestimated' - Independent.ie
Health Minister Simon Harris has said some costings of the National Childrens Hospital plans had been clearly completely ... The estimated cost of the new hospital, on the campus of St Jamess Hospital in Dublin, has risen from an original estimate of ... Some costs of National Childrens Hospital completely misestimated. Work continues at the site of the new National Childrens ... last December determines that the 56pc increase in construction in costs led to the cost per square meter for the new hospital ...
https://www.independent.ie/breaking-news/irish-news/some-costs-of-national-childrens-hospital-completely-misestimated-37814632.html
Assessing the Impact of Drug Use on Hospital Costs - RWJFAssessing the Impact of Drug Use on Hospital Costs - RWJF
This study determined that prescription drugs do have a positive effect on hospital expenditures by either preventing ... hospitalization or resulting in cost savings once patients have been admitted. ... This suggests that the primary source of hospital cost savings is through reduced need of intensive care services or reduced ... Assessing the Impact of Drug Use on Hospital Costs. * * Publisher: Health Administration Press ...
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2009/02/assessing-the-impact-of-drug-use-on-hospital-costs.html
Hospital Mergers Can Lower Costs and Improve Medical Care - WSJHospital Mergers Can Lower Costs and Improve Medical Care - WSJ
Davis writes that stand-alone hospitals have too few patients to thrive in the new era of population health management. ... Hospital Mergers Can Lower Costs and Improve Medical Care. Stand-alone hospitals have too few patients to thrive in the new era ... Decades ago, hospital mergers set off alarm bells. Some worried that they would decrease competition and raise costs. Yet ... thanks to cataclysmic changes in the delivery of health care, hospital mergers now offer the potential for higher quality and ...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/kenneth-l-davis-hospital-mergers-can-lower-costs-and-improve-medical-care-1410823048?mod=googlewsj
Abt Associates to Evaluate Hospital Innovations Designed to Improve Care, Lower CostsAbt Associates to Evaluate Hospital Innovations Designed to Improve Care, Lower Costs
Abt Associates will evaluate a program designed to lower costs for Medicare, Medicaid, and the Childrens Health ... Abt Associates to Evaluate Hospital Innovations Designed to Improve Care, Lower Costs. ... Abt Associates will evaluate a program designed to lower costs and improve patient care under a $5.6 million contract with the ... Under the contract, Abt will evaluate 10 models that are based in hospital settings, to determine whether the programs improved ...
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/9/prweb11117687.htm
Army Hospital Accused of Reversing PTSD Diagnoses to Cut Costs - ABC NewsArmy Hospital Accused of Reversing PTSD Diagnoses to Cut Costs - ABC News
An army hospital in Tacomo, Wash. is under fire for reneging on mental health care for troops diagnosed with post-traumatic ... Army Hospital Accused of Reversing PTSD Diagnoses to Cut Costs. Madigan Army Medical Center is under investigation for reversed ... An army hospital in Tacoma, Wash. is under fire for reneging on mental health care for troops diagnosed with post-traumatic ... The diagnosis can cost taxpayers as much as $1.5 million per soldier, according to an Army Medical Command memo obtained by the ...
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/madigan-army-medical-center-investigation-reneging-ptsd-care/story?id=15969914
How Much Do Hospitals Cost Shift? - RWJFHow Much Do Hospitals Cost Shift? - RWJF
... suggests their implications for the future of health care costs, and puts them in the current policy context. ... This article examines the theoretical and empirical literature on cost shifting since 1996, synthesizes the predominant ... industrywide hospital payment-to-cost margins by payer provide a false impression that cost shifting is a large and pervasive ... Hospital cost shifting-charging private payers more in response to shortfalls in public payments-has long been part of the ...
https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2011/04/how-much-do-hospitals-cost-shift-.html
Hospitals Cut Cost, the Poor Bleed -...'Hospitals Cut Cost, the Poor Bleed' -...
Much needed hospital physical plant improvements, new updated equipment acquisitions, and new hospital services are only a few ... The sum total of all this new activity is that the hospitals in these areas are getting a much needed and deserved "face lift." ... Nonetheless, all hospitals have adopted a policy of "emergency treatment and stabilization to all irrespective of ability to ... Just this past Christmas I was able to convince one of these "corporate hospitals" to perform surgery free of charge to the ...
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-01-25/local/me-32653_1_hospitals-minority-areas-medicine
California Hospitals Compete By Lowering Costs | RANDCalifornia Hospitals Compete By Lowering Costs | RAND
... where HMOs and PPOs have gained widespread acceptance and excess hospital capacity exists, competitive market conditions can be ... California Hospitals Compete By Lowering Costs. Published in: California Hospitals, 1992, p. 18-19 ... Concerns The California Experiment, in which, because of the emergence of managed care organizations, hospitals have been ... where HMOs and PPOs have gained widespread acceptance and excess hospital capacity exists, competitive market conditions can be ...
https://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19920007.html
2012 Medicare Hospital Cost Reports2012 Medicare Hospital Cost Reports
Medicare hospital cost reports are listed by their Medicare ID, fiscal year (mmyy) format, city, and facility name. The ... All hospitals in Illinois, those hospitals in contiguous states providing 100 or more paid acute inpatient days of care to ... Requests for Medicare hospital reports not listed on this Web site should be submitted directly to Federal CMS. ... Any questions concerning the filing of cost reports should be addressed to: Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family ...
https://www.illinois.gov/hfs/MedicalProviders/CostReports/Pages/2012MedicareHospitalCostReports.aspx
Consolidation swells NYC hospitals costsConsolidation swells NYC hospitals' costs
Total operating expenses among the Top 15 hospitals rose 7.4%. ... Total operating expenses among the Top 15 hospitals rose 7.4%. ... As hospitals shutter in the New York area, the remaining facilities are growing. ... As hospitals shutter in the New York area, the remaining facilities are growing. ... New York-Presbyterian Hospital topped the list of largest hospitals with operating expenses of $3.3 billion in 2010, followed ...
https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110613/FREE/110619969/consolidation-swells-nyc-hospitals-costs
Escalating cost of childrens hospitalEscalating cost of children's hospital
Sir, - The original cost of the National Childrens Hospital was supposed to be under €1 billion. This has been regularly ...
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/escalating-cost-of-children-s-hospital-1.3744412
Misdirected Faxes Cost Hospital $387KMisdirected Faxes Cost Hospital $387K
Two misdirected faxes cost a New York City hospital $387,200 in a HIPAA settlement. ... Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Inc., part of the Mount Sinai Health System, is the ninth entity this year to settle ...
http://www.healthleadersmedia.com/technology/misdirected-faxes-cost-hospital-387k?spMailingID=11257276&spUserID=MTY3ODg4NjMzNjQxS0&spJobID=1181207103&spReportId=MTE4MTIwNzEwMwS2
Measuring defensive medicine costs on 3 hospital services | EurekAlert! Science NewsMeasuring defensive medicine costs on 3 hospital services | EurekAlert! Science News
About 28 percent of the orders for three services at three hospitals were judged to be at least partially defensive by the ... Measuring defensive medicine costs on 3 hospital services. The JAMA Network Journals ... Completely defensive orders represented about 2.9 percent of costs, mostly because of additional hospital days. ... attitudes about defensive medicine did not correlate with cost. Our findings suggest that only a small portion of medical costs ...
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-09/tjnj-mdm091214.php
Hospital Study Finds Wide Disparity In Health Care Costs - Hartford CourantHospital Study Finds Wide Disparity In Health Care Costs - Hartford Courant
The Connecticut Hospital Association, the hospitals lobbying group, says Medicare covers 89 percent of the cost of delivering ... The data also show that nonprofit hospitals charge the same as for-profit hospitals, though government-owned hospitals, such as ... Meanwhile, hospitals where Medicaid and Medicare represent a higher proportion of the patients lower their costs to match their ... Another argument is that hospitals that take care of more Medicaid and Medicare patients have to shift costs more heavily to ...
https://www.courant.com/business/hc-hospital-monopoly-power-and-cost-20151215-story.html
Hospital trust to cut costs with finance management systemHospital trust to cut costs with finance management system
University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UHBristol) has implemented a financial management system from COA Solutions ... University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UHBristol) has implemented a financial management system from COA Solutions ... Like all NHS organisations, UHBristol is tasked with delivering cost reductions to help secure £15bn to £20bn of savings across ...
http://www.computerweekly.com/news/1280093427/Hospital-trust-to-cut-costs-with-finance-management-system
Higher Hospital Costs Found for Surgical Patients Who SmokeHigher Hospital Costs Found for Surgical Patients Who Smoke
Cigarette smoking contributes to significantly higher hospital costs for smokers undergoing elective general surgery, according ... found that hospital costs for smokers who had more complex procedures were 6 percent higher compared with hospital costs for ... American College of Surgeons Media Press Releases Journal (JACS) Press Releases Higher Hospital Costs Found for Surgical ... Researchers then examined hospital costs in three areas: the operation, subsequent readmission within 30 days of discharge, and ...
https://www.facs.org/media/press-releases/jacs/highercosts0512
Cost, distance from hospitals | EurekAlert! Science News ReleasesCost, distance from hospitals | EurekAlert! Science News Releases
Cost, distance from hospitals present barriers to surgical care. Rutgers University. Journal. The Lancet Global Health. Funder ... Cost, distance from hospitals present barriers to surgical care Rutgers study in Colombia can be used as a model to address ... "While New Jersey residents do not struggle with proximity to hospitals as do many in Colombia, the state has socioeconomic ... Using the Commissions six core surgical indicators - access to a hospital equipped for emergency and essential surgery within ...
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/815448
Hospital-Employed Physicians Cost Medicare More, Study SaysHospital-Employed Physicians Cost Medicare More, Study Says
Payment differentials based on location have motivated hospitals to acquire medical practices, according to the Physicians ... "Hospital consolidation pushes healthcare costs upward," said PAI President Robert Seligson in a news release. "The impact of ... Cite this: Hospital-Employed Physicians Cost Medicare More, Study Says - Medscape - Nov 16, 2017. ... Compared with their independent peers, hospital-employed physicians cost the Medicare program more for four procedures from ...
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/888772
Open Source Electronic Health Records: A Cost Solution For HospitalsOpen Source Electronic Health Records: A Cost Solution For Hospitals
But Oroville Hospitals chief executive Robert Wentz got cold feet. For the 153-bed Northern [...] ... like all hospitals, it shopped around for a vendor. Electronic health records giant Cerner was on the list, so were McKesson ... When Oroville Hospital decided to digitize its patient medical records three years ago, ... Oroville Hospital is completing implementation of its EHR, a process that took three years and cost an estimated $10 million ( ...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2012/08/24/open-source-electronic-health-records-a-cost-solution-for-hospitals/?commentId=comment_blogAndPostId/blog/comment/1176-1462-526
How Rick Scott And Rick Perry Could Cost Hospitals BillionsHow Rick Scott And Rick Perry Could Cost Hospitals Billions
... to opt out of participating in the expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program for the poor could cost public hospitals ... The nations state and local public hospitals may face an increase of more than $50 billion in the costs of uncompensated care ... The nations state and local public hospitals may face an increase of more than $50 billion in the costs of uncompensated care ... The giant price tag to safety net hospitals for patients who are unable to pay their medical bills comes from a new analysis ...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2012/10/31/how-rick-scott-and-rick-perry-could-cost-hospitals-billions/
Strained French public hospital workers protest cost cuts - ABC NewsStrained French public hospital workers protest cost cuts - ABC News
... doctors and other public hospital workers are marching through Paris to demand more staff and resources after years of cost ... Strained French public hospital workers protest cost cuts. Thousands of exasperated nurses, doctors and other public hospital ... The government has been working on a support plan for hospitals that protesters fear will be too modest to solve the problem. ... and other public hospital workers marched through Paris on Thursday to demand more staff and resources after years of cost cuts ...
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/strained-french-public-hospital-workers-protest-cost-cuts-67005813
World Health Organization, Hospital CostsWorld Health Organization, Hospital Costs
Hospital Costs. * Comparative Country Studies: Case-based payment systems for hospital funding in Asia: an investigation of ...
http://www.searo.who.int/entity/asia_pacific_observatory/publications/key_word_hospital_Costs/en/
2017CentersReimbursementHealthcare2016CarePatientsInsurersOutpatientOutcomesReadmissions2020UtilizationNational Children's HospitalMedicareInpatient hospitalMedicalChildren's hospitalExpendituresBillionsPatientCaliforniaStaysResearchersEligible Medibank hospital membersDifferences2019EstimateHospitalizationBedsReduceOfficialsExpensesExcessComplicationsYearDoctorsOrganizationsResultsSignificantlyTaxpayersMillionLayoffsLocal hospitalsStudyBudgetsPhysiciansCommunity HospitalJames's HospitalTimeHigherMergersUniversity of ChicagDifferent Types of HospitalsPercentServicesOccupancy rateBills
20177
  • Medicare's rate for a colonoscopy ― procedure code 45380 ― in an independent physician's office in 2017 costs $413 under the PFS. (medscape.com)
  • Under that law, off-campus HOPDs - defined as those more than 250 yards away from a hospital or satellite facility - are no longer able to receive Medicare's HOPD rates for nonemergency service, effective January 1, 2017. (medscape.com)
  • The state gradually has to pick up some costs in 2017 but by 2020 the federal government is still picking up 90 percent or more of the Medicaid tab. (forbes.com)
  • Value-based care is sending providers back to the costing basics in 2017 to maximize savings and fully monitor population health outcomes. (prnewswire.com)
  • His decision follows last month's resignation of Tom Costello, chair of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, after a public furore about the soaring construction costs of the hospital, which have gone up by €450m since April 2017. (independent.ie)
  • One big shift coming in 2017: Today 6 percent of employers offer high performance networks, where providers are selected based on quality and cost. (chicagobusiness.com)
  • GE expanded the program to hospitals in Wisconsin, South Carolina and Massachusetts in 2017 and announced a fifth location in New York in August, but says it is too early to provide data for other locations. (reuters.com)
Centers8
  • The researchers found that among 20,000 cases of routine appendicitis, at 289 hospitals and medical centers across the state of California, the price range was as low as $1,529 and as high as $183,000. (foxbusiness.com)
  • While costs at other academic medical centers in the area have increased an average of 2.9 percent a year over the past few years, the University of Utah's have declined by 0.5 percent a year. (nytimes.com)
  • To make money, medical centers have to figure out what it actually costs to provide care and how to spend less while maintaining or improving outcomes. (nytimes.com)
  • The median charge for acute appendicitis admissions at 289 medical centers and hospitals throughout California, for example, ranged from $1,529 to almost $183,000, an Archives of Internal Medicine study reported in April. (rd.com)
  • High-volume centers were defined as hospitals performing ≥ 19 operations annually. (springer.com)
  • There were no differences in mean costs for pancreatectomies performed at high- and low-volume centers [− $1175, 95% confidence interval (CI) − $3254 to $904, p = 0.27]. (springer.com)
  • In subgroup analysis comparing adjusted mean costs at high- and low-volume centers, there was no difference among patients without an adverse outcome (− $99, 95% CI − $1612 to 1414, p = 0.90), one or more adverse outcomes (− $1586, 95% CI − $4771 to 1599, p = 0.33), or one or more complications (− $2835, 95% CI − $7588 to 1919, p = 0.24). (springer.com)
  • Through the Cancer Care Network, UC Davis collaborates with a number of hospitals and clinical centers throughout the Central Valley and Northern California regions to offer the latest cancer care. (ucdavis.edu)
Reimbursement11
  • An increase in uninsured patients and uncertainty about reimbursement are forcing hospitals to look for efficiencies. (latimes.com)
  • The study ― and it's not the first to make these points ― would seem to justify Medicare's recent efforts to level the reimbursement playing field for hospital-employed and independent physicians to avoid running up unnecessary costs. (medscape.com)
  • How do differences in the way hospitals are paid--cost- versus charge-based reimbursement--affect hospital investment? (repec.org)
  • The capital structure of hospitals and reimbursement policy ," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance , Elsevier, vol. 37(1), pages 59-77. (repec.org)
  • Hospitals across the nation are faced with decreasing reimbursement from commercial payers while the number of Medicare enrollees swells," he said in the news release. (timesfreepress.com)
  • To learn what a reasonable price should be, check out the free, online cost-comparison tool from Healthcare Blue Book (healthcarebluebook.com), which lists "fair" rates in your zip code based on the average insurance reimbursement fee. (rd.com)
  • In 2015, the penalty increases and reimbursement changes are predicted to cost a 300-bed hospital $1.3 million annually. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Specifically, the care provider said recent regulatory changes have emphasized lower-cost outpatient services over higher-cost inpatient services and consequently dampened its reimbursement revenue from government insurers. (bizjournals.com)
  • We are also approaching the budgeting process for next year with these reductions in reimbursement in mind, and are confident that these plans and our strong history of providing high quality, low cost care will help position Lowell General Hospital for strong financial performance in 2015. (bizjournals.com)
  • Hospital reimbursement has not kept pace with rising costs, resulting in falling profit margins, the study found. (plansponsor.com)
  • If a car is used reimbursement will be for the cost of fuel at the local mileage rate and unavoidable car parking and toll charges. (wikipedia.org)
Healthcare35
  • What prompted the change was a tough healthcare environment that has seen hospitals slash services or shut down altogether. (latimes.com)
  • The exact amount of coverage that Medicare provides depends on how long the person stays in the hospital or other eligible healthcare facility. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Hospital consolidation pushes healthcare costs upward," said PAI President Robert Seligson in a news release. (medscape.com)
  • Amerinet Inc., a leading national healthcare solutions organization recently partnered with Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton, W.V., to help the 267-bed facility save on its energy costs, resulting in a savings of nearly $1 million in natural gas costs. (prweb.com)
  • Participants will feel confident they are making environmentally responsible decisions that support cost reduction and create an energy efficient healthcare facility for their patients and staff. (prweb.com)
  • With better product standardization and utilization, new financial tools beyond contracting and alliances that help lower costs, raise revenue and champion quality, Amerinet enriches healthcare delivery for its members and the communities they serve. (prweb.com)
  • Making matters worse, according to the report's authors, is the fact that most hospitals and other healthcare organizations are aware of their security deficiencies but lack either the resources or the ambition to implement the systems and policies necessary to safeguard patient data. (internetnews.com)
  • Data breaches at U.S. healthcare organizations cost providers more than $6 billion a year and despite this expensive and embarrassing revelation, the vast majority of hospitals and clinics still lack both the inclination and resources to make protecting patient data a priority. (internetnews.com)
  • TAMPA, Fla. , Dec. 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- An inert healthcare enterprise resource planning software sector grew less than 2 percent in 2015 as hospitals turned available technology funding to conflicting priorities such as ICD 10 conversions, cybersecurity, population health and analytics, with less than 29 percent of all US hospitals having implemented any ERP product. (prnewswire.com)
  • Cloud ERP solutions produced the highest client experience scores for healthcare organizations including speed in implementations and scalable total costs according to Black Book results. (prnewswire.com)
  • For the first time we are able to quantify the impact of a "wish" using healthcare utilization data such as emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and costs," said lead study author Dr. Anup Patel of Nationwide Children's. (reuters.com)
  • It matters to patients and families, as we have shown that a 'wish' may allow the patient to be home more with their family, not miss school, and save families money in healthcare costs," Patel said by email. (reuters.com)
  • Inpatient hospital costs account for nearly 30 percent of health care spending in the United States and are increasing by a little less than 2 percent a year, adjusted for inflation, according to the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (nytimes.com)
  • They estimated that the annual savings to the US healthcare system would be in the range of $92 million per year, taking into account both the drug's cost and the money saved from reduced HF-related hospitalizations. (medscape.com)
  • Source of data was the 2005 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project National Inpatient Sample (HCUP NIS). (nih.gov)
  • Employers covered by insurers like United Healthcare or Blue Cross Blue Shield for major medical could enroll on a supplemental basis in Unum's hospital insurance plan. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • Roughly 1.7 million hospital-associated infections occur annually in acute-care hospitals which result in tens of thousands of patient deaths and cost billions of dollars to the healthcare system. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • We have to get to the bottom of why it is that we keep having the number of drug-resistant healthcare-associated infections that are currently reported" Lynn White, MD, said during a webinar hosted by Becker's Hospital Review . (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • A group fighting an initiative to restrict patient costs in Palo Alto claims that the measure would not lower hospital bills, but force the city to increase taxes or reduce services and even spur healthcare providers to relocate elsewhere. (mercurynews.com)
  • The Palo Alto Accountable and Affordable Health Care Initiative, or Measure F - sponsored by Services Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) - would limit the amount that Stanford Hospital, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and other health care providers can charge patients to no more than 15 percent above the actual cost of providing care. (mercurynews.com)
  • A statement against Measure F on the city's website backed by Mayor Liz Kniss said the initiative would lead to hospital layoffs and shuttered healthcare facilities, which would sap city revenue and be "perhaps impossible" to replace. (mercurynews.com)
  • He said the burden would be on healthcare providers, adding that the city officials would mostly monitor hospital audits already conducted each year by independent agencies. (mercurynews.com)
  • If the city has to spend some money to lower costs for healthcare, that seems like a worthwhile thing to do," Trossman said. (mercurynews.com)
  • Ongoing investigations include healthcare costs, given the national focus on reducing expenditures. (springer.com)
  • While high-volume hospitals have fewer adverse outcomes, there is no relationship between surgical volume and costs, which suggests that, in itself, surgical volume is not an indicator of improved healthcare efficiency reflected by lower costs. (springer.com)
  • In the three-part cover story of our January issue, Healthcare IT News takes a look at the three big challenges health information technology is trying to help solve: quality improvement, improved access to care and cost reduction. (healthcareitnews.com)
  • The famous "Triple Aim" framework developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement seeks to improve the patient experience of care, improve population health and reduce the per capita cost of healthcare. (healthcareitnews.com)
  • While a review of prior research shows that numerous efforts from a range of perspectives have been made to quantify the impact of violence to various stakeholders, a comprehensive estimate of the financial impact to community healthcare resources, specifically hospitals and health systems, has not been accomplished. (aha.org)
  • In reading this report, it is important to recall that the term "cost" can mean different things to different stakeholders, especially with regard to healthcare. (aha.org)
  • To providers, including hospitals, the "cost" of healthcare is the investment in resources that support the provision of healthcare services to their patients, and this can include direct patient care as well as indirect costs for ancillary functions that support their overall operations. (aha.org)
  • It if succeeds, non-profit hospitals will give five percent of their patient revenue to healthcare for the needy in exchange for not paying federal, state and local taxes. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • Hospital at home is an Atmosphere in Which chosen kinds of healthcare might be delivered at your house to acceptable, consenting patients that require in patient clinic maintenance. (managedcaremag.com)
  • A retrospective analysis of influenza hospitalizations was performed in 2006 using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids' Inpatient Database, a nationally representative database of hospital discharge records for children from January to December 2003. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • But not to be outdone, earlier this week Northwestern Memorial Healthcare (formerly affiliated with NorthShore) agreed on a whopping $400 million dollar purchase of Lake Forest Hospital only 6.2 miles from NorthShore's Highland Park Hospital: The 215-bed Lake Forest Hospital has been viewed as a prime acquisition target amid a string of hospital deals in the northern suburbs. (emaxhealth.com)
  • The deal would mark a major strategic shift for Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, which operates the Streeterville hospital and affiliated physician groups but does not have much of a suburban presence. (emaxhealth.com)
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  • Back in 2016, Gaziano et al conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis of sacubitril-valsartan initiated in ambulatory patients. (medscape.com)
  • The lawmaker did not have the costs for 2013, but he said in 2014 the spending went up to $US25 million, then it jumped by $US1 million last year to $US26 million and for Fiscal Year 2016 the LBJ's personnel budget stands at $US28 million. (radionz.co.nz)
  • Overall, we estimated that proactive and reactive violence response efforts cost U.S. hospitals and health systems approximately $2.7 billion in 2016. (aha.org)
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  • The system, adopted in May here by Greater Southeast Community Hospital, has enabled the hospital to increase its occupancy rate, reduce waiting lists, improve the quality of care and effectively cut costs, according to Greater Southeast administrators. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Hospital care accounts for roughly 40 per cent of the $139 billion spent last year for medical care in this country and is the largest single item on te national medical bill. (washingtonpost.com)
  • On an annual basis, the Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) requires acute care hospitals to provide a copy of their Medicare Cost Report as provided to CMS. (in.gov)
  • You may get financial help from the Hospital Travel Costs Scheme if you're on a low income, need Health Service treatment at a hospital, Health Service centre or private clinic and have been under the care of a consultant. (nidirect.gov.uk)
  • In this 2004 to 2005 project, Robert J. Town, PhD, and a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota and the University of Pennsylvania analyzed the relationship between managed care and hospital consolidation and the impact of hospital consolidation on consumers. (rwjf.org)
  • We also explore the types of care facility that are eligible and ways to reduce out-of-pocket costs. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Doctors at these hospitals provide care for relatively brief episodes of acute injury and illness. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Medicare provides the same fee structure for general hospital care and psychiatric hospital care, with one exception: It limits the coverage of inpatient psychiatric hospital care to 190 days in a lifetime. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • This suggests that the primary source of hospital cost savings is through reduced need of intensive care services or reduced length of stay perhaps due to a less severe illness. (rwjf.org)
  • Yet thanks to cataclysmic changes in the delivery of health care, hospital mergers now offer the potential for higher quality and more efficiency. (wsj.com)
  • Abt Associates will evaluate a program designed to lower costs and improve patient care under a $5.6 million contract with the CMS Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovations. (prweb.com)
  • Under the contract, Abt will evaluate 10 models that are based in hospital settings, to determine whether the programs improved health care delivery and lowered costs for patients with specific clinical needs. (prweb.com)
  • Innovation and efficiency are critical to making our health care system better for patients and more cost effective," said Terry Moore, vice president for the Health Policy practice at Abt Associates. (prweb.com)
  • Abt is pleased to work with CMS to evaluate these efforts to transform care and reduce costs. (prweb.com)
  • An army hospital in Tacoma, Wash. is under fire for reneging on mental health care for troops diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder . (go.com)
  • Since 2007, more than 300 soldiers under consideration for medical retirement because of PTSD had their diagnoses reversed by a screening team at Madigan Army Medical Center -- a move criticized for putting costs before care. (go.com)
  • I want to make sure that we are really looking not just at Madigan… but system-wide," she said, adding that cost should not stand in the way of soldiers getting "the care that they have earned and they deserve and that this country expects them to have. (go.com)
  • Concerns The California Experiment, in which, because of the emergence of managed care organizations, hospitals have been experiencing a great deal of competition. (rand.org)
  • This article suggests that in a market such as California, where HMOs and PPOs have gained widespread acceptance and excess hospital capacity exists, competitive market conditions can be leveraged to negotiate lower prices with health care providers. (rand.org)
  • All hospitals in Illinois, those hospitals in contiguous states providing 100 or more paid acute inpatient days of care to Illinois Medicaid Program participants, and all hospitals located in states contiguous to Illinois that elect to be reimbursed under the methodology described in 89 Ill. Adm. (illinois.gov)
  • Significantly, the authors found that lower Medicare spending does not translate into lower prices for private payers - a conclusion that has far-reaching consequences for federal health policy and the cost of medical care in the country. (courant.com)
  • Another argument is that hospitals that take care of more Medicaid and Medicare patients have to shift costs more heavily to private clients, because those government insurance programs pay less than the cost of care. (courant.com)
  • In Connecticut, where hospital consolidation has been growing, the state passed a law that took effect Dec. 1 that requires the state Office of Health Care Access to do a cost and market impact review before allowing mergers. (courant.com)
  • Aetna, responding to the report, noted that it's been working for more than seven years on value-based care of this kind, and has seen results in less complications, more use of cost-saving generic drugs, and better management of chronic conditions. (courant.com)
  • The problem is that the solutions under the Affordable Care Act designed to reduce overall spending give incentives for hospital systems to grow larger and coordinate care more tightly, because they used Medicare spending figures to see where things are going right. (courant.com)
  • When researchers analyzed data on more than 14,000 patients, they found that postoperative respiratory complications help drive up these health care costs. (facs.org)
  • Because smokers often have coexisting health conditions such as hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, and coronary artery disease-all of which can drive up health care costs-the researchers controlled for these factors as well as other factors, including age and urgency of surgical procedure. (facs.org)
  • This type of population study is key to understanding the health of a population and informing policy that can improve the health of communities," said Peck, who has spent nearly a decade working with Colombian hospitals to create strategic plans for improving trauma and surgical care at the whole population level. (eurekalert.org)
  • While New Jersey residents do not struggle with proximity to hospitals as do many in Colombia, the state has socioeconomic barriers in the quality and cost of available health care. (eurekalert.org)
  • Avalere compared what Medicare spent on the four procedures ― along with before-and-after ancillary services ― provided by hospital-employed physicians to what the program would have spent had those physicians had the same site-of-care practice patterns as their independent counterparts and billed accordingly. (medscape.com)
  • The nation's state and local public hospitals may face an increase of more than $50 billion in the costs of uncompensated care by 2019 if states decide against participating in an expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program for the poor. (forbes.com)
  • The association said the study puts "a dollar figure" on the additional cost of uncompensated care following the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. (forbes.com)
  • Congress certainly didn't foresee this level of uninsured and uncompensated care when it enacted the (Affordable Care Act)," said Dr. Bruce Siegel, president of the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems. (forbes.com)
  • The findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, came from the first hospital-based study to examine how patients' desire to participate in medical decisions affects their use of health care resources. (redorbit.com)
  • The result that everyone would have liked, that patients who are more engaged in their care do better and cost less, is not what we found in this setting," said study author David Meltzer, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine, economics and public policy at the University of Chicago. (redorbit.com)
  • They found that provider incentives were not the only predictors of care costs. (redorbit.com)
  • Although the uninsured had slightly shorter stays and lower hospitalization costs, patients with public insurance such as Medicare or Medicaid, which pay less than the cost of care, had longer than average stays and higher costs. (redorbit.com)
  • As the principal tertiary care hospital on the South Side of the city, the University of Chicago Medicine provides care for a diverse population. (redorbit.com)
  • They warned this could increase health care disparities as empowered and engaged groups, who already are more likely to receive care, gain resources through shared decision making while the national movement toward accountable care organizations increases the pressure for cost reduction. (redorbit.com)
  • Another hospital in Utah County would drive occupancy rates down and health-care costs up, Utah Valley Regional Medical Center (UVRMC) officials say. (deseretnews.com)
  • All three hospitals are owned by Intermountain Health Care Inc. Mountain View, which has 118 beds, is typically half full. (deseretnews.com)
  • Health-care costs would increase because of that imbalance, Dursteler said. (deseretnews.com)
  • In Dallas, Parkland Hospital created an information-sharing network that gets health care to the most vulnerable citizens-before they show up in the emergency room. (politico.com)
  • the hospital spent $871 million on uncompensated care last year, which accounts for over half its budget and more than 2 percent of all the unpaid hospital care provided in the United States. (politico.com)
  • They say excess beds are a leading cause of rising health care costs because the beds and buildings have to be staffed and paid for wheather they are used or not. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Doctors say they need the equipment, but critics say the equipment is unnecessary, that doctors make money off it and it adds to health care costs. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Los Angeles County has recently lost millions of dollars in health care revenue, due to billing foul-ups by county hospital officials, according to audits, reports and the recent deposition testimony of a key fiscal officer at Martin Luther King Jr. / Drew Medical Center. (latimes.com)
  • And this summer, a private health care consultant authored a confidential report concluding that poor fiscal controls and lax computer security at King have cost the county "unknown mega bucks. (latimes.com)
  • Crucial back-end software that manages finance, supply chain and inventory management, purchasing, payroll and coding have been disregarded into a confused entanglement of different products that don't communicate and left executives with the inability to realize cost savings in preparation of value based care,' said Doug Brown , Managing Partner of Black Book. (prnewswire.com)
  • 57 percent of the C-suite executives surveyed admitted not having a deep understanding of the impact or complexity of their supply chain until the reality of value-based care set in this year with the emphasis on accountability to properly measure and compare medical costs with outcomes. (prnewswire.com)
  • In a payment environment that reimburses for value, it has become more critical to understand exactly how much it costs to deliver patient care,' said Brown. (prnewswire.com)
  • Finding new methods of understanding true costs per case and per episode of care have providers returning to ERP system basics to move confidently to a valued based model. (prnewswire.com)
  • As the industry emphases the identification and capture of all costs to determine the actual cost of care, the implementation of newer ERP technologies and advanced costing methods has changed administrator's strategic technology plans,' said Brown. (prnewswire.com)
  • CHICAGO - Medical researchers warned Thursday that recent Medicare cuts make treating many elderly patients a losing proposition, which may force some hospitals to cut care or refuse certain patients. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • June 20, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Health care consumers had to shell out 8.7% more in 2001 over the year before, driven by skyrocketing prices for hospital care and strong health care demand. (plansponsor.com)
  • Some 38% of the stepped up hospital expenditures were driven by higher prices for care while the rest was a simple matter of a dramatic increase of in demand for hospital service. (plansponsor.com)
  • Important drivers of health care costs at this time include advances in technology, the lagging impact of increases in per-capita income, the retreat from tightly managed care, provider consolidation, and shortages of nurses and other skilled personnel," Ginsburg said. (plansponsor.com)
  • The rapid growth in people's income during the late 1990s is likely a major factor in today's high health care cost growth," Ginsburg said. (plansponsor.com)
  • Rapidly rising health care costs are the hangover from the party now that the economy is sluggish. (plansponsor.com)
  • While prescription drug spending continued to grow at the largest annual rate, in both 2000 and 2001, hospital spending replaced prescription drugs as the most important driver of overall cost growth, because a much higher share of health spending is for hospital care, he said. (plansponsor.com)
  • Partners in Health, a global NGO focused on delivering health care to residents of rural underserved communities, conducts a project on the cost of primary care at five sites in the Central Highlands of Haiti. (hbs.edu)
  • Patients with common conditions such as back pain, headaches and upper respiratory infections are more likely to receive tests and services of uncertain or little diagnostic or therapeutic benefit- so-called low-value care -when they seek treatment in primary care clinics located at hospitals rather than at community-based primary care clinics, according to a nationwide study. (insurancejournal.com)
  • Indeed, aside from referring patients to specialists slightly more often, hospital-owned community clinics delivered care otherwise similar to physician-owned community clinics. (insurancejournal.com)
  • The study findings, published April 10 in JAMA Internal Medicine , found an overreliance on referrals to specialists, CT scans, MRIs and X-rays in patients treated at hospital-based primary care practices, raising concerns about the value of hospital-based primary care, the research team said. (insurancejournal.com)
  • Unnecessary care can not only fuel higher overall treatment costs and spending but also lead to additional invasive and potentially harmful procedures and, in the case of CT scans and X-ray testing, expose patients to unnecessary radiation, the researchers say. (insurancejournal.com)
  • The authors say the study could help hospital-based practices develop strategies that limit the use of tests and procedures that provide little value for patients while driving up health care costs. (insurancejournal.com)
  • Hospital-based practices need to be aware of their tendency to overuse certain tests and services of questionable therapeutic value for patients with uncomplicated conditions," said study senior author Bruce Landon, an HMS professor of health care policy and of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he practices general internal medicine. (insurancejournal.com)
  • Reducing the use of such services can not only help curb health care costs-and redirect such resources in more meaningful way-but also protect patients from the potentially harmful effects associated with such services. (insurancejournal.com)
  • In their analysis, the team compared patient records obtained from two national databases, comprising more than 31,000 patient visits over a 17-year period during which patients sought treatment in hospital-based primary care clinics or community-based clinics for upper respiratory infections, back pain and headaches. (insurancejournal.com)
  • Additionally, the patients most likely to receive unnecessary tests and services were those visiting hospital-based primary care clinics but seeing someone other than their usual primary care physician. (insurancejournal.com)
  • Lord Carter said: "My experience of the NHS and hospitals internationally is that high-quality patient care and sound financial management go hand in hand. (bbc.com)
  • It means the rest will have to come from people improving their lifestyles (and so preventing ill-health), moving care out of hospitals and into the community (which is cheaper) and keeping tight control on salaries. (bbc.com)
  • No one on Dr. Lee's staff at the University of Utah Health Care could say what a minute in an M.R.I. machine or an hour in the operating room actually costs. (nytimes.com)
  • But now, thanks to a project Dr. Lee set in motion after that initial query several years ago, the hospital is getting answers, information that is not only saving money but also improving care. (nytimes.com)
  • The cost issue has taken on new urgency as the Affordable Care Act accelerates the move away from fee-for-service medicine and toward a system where hospitals will get one payment for the entire course of a treatment, like hospitalization for pneumonia . (nytimes.com)
  • The linchpin of this effort at the University of Utah Health Care is a computer program - still a work in progress - with 200 million rows of costs for items like drugs, medical devices, a doctor's time in the operating room and each member of the staff's time. (nytimes.com)
  • The hospital has been able to calculate, for instance, the cost per minute in the emergency room (82 cents), in the surgical intensive care unit ($1.43), and in the operating room for an orthopedic surgery case ($12). (nytimes.com)
  • With such information, as well as data on the cost of labor, supplies and labs, the hospital has pared excess expenses and revised numerous practices for more efficient and effective care. (nytimes.com)
  • Recently, Dr. Porter and a colleague, Robert Kaplan, visited Utah and concluded that the hospital group was one of the few in health care to properly measure the costs of care. (nytimes.com)
  • Large employers think hospital mergers may lead to more consistent care and service and better administrative efficiency, but they aren't buying that consolidation will lower medical costs or raise quality. (chicagobusiness.com)
  • Employers have tended to be very cynical about hospital mergers," said Larry Boress, CEO of the business group, which aims to lower employee health-benefit costs and raise standards in the health care industry. (chicagobusiness.com)
  • Boress pointed out that employers are not entirely downbeat on the mergers: 61 percent think hospital combinations are likely to improve consistency of care, and 64 percent say they could lead to improved administrative efficiencies. (chicagobusiness.com)
  • But he said that's likely to change as employers increasingly force workers to share more health care costs by paying higher co-payments and deductibles, making patients more motivated to ask about costs. (sify.com)
  • Sharing meaningful information, however, is challenging because hospital care is unique and based on each individual patient's needs. (sify.com)
  • The study from researchers at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania and other schools relies on data from private insurers to provide a lens into health care costs. (time.com)
  • Researchers found that the cost of hospital visits is the primary driver of differences in health care cost between regions. (time.com)
  • The study warns that mergers between hospitals may lead to an increase in health care costs. (time.com)
  • Physicians who concentrate on hospital care produce better results than the general internists who have traditionally managed hospital stays, reveals a study by researchers at the University of Chicago. (uchospitals.edu)
  • Each of the 58 general internists, on the other hand, devoted a much smaller percentage of his or her time to hospital care. (uchospitals.edu)
  • The researchers attribute most of these gains, which continued to mount even during the second year of the study, to the increased experience of the hospitalists in handling the hospital care of patients with specific diseases. (uchospitals.edu)
  • An additional 91,613 readmissions for treatment of SSI accounted for a further 521,933 days of care at a cost of nearly $700 million. (nih.gov)
  • This is because giant hospital systems and health insurers are colluding to set physician prices so they can completely control the health care process. (washingtontimes.com)
  • Hospitals have become the modern health care marketplace, and there are really two types of fees charged at a hospital. (washingtontimes.com)
  • Many supplemental insurance plans such as accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity are employee-paid, but employer-paid models are becoming more common as employees are asked to pay for more health care out of their own pockets. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • SSM Health is currently evaluating expenditures to see what non-patient care related costs to cut, delay or reduce. (wpr.org)
  • It included $100 billion for hospitals and other health care providers. (wpr.org)
  • Some policymakers say that's not enough to support health care providers with the increased costs they've had that are associate with the pandemic. (wpr.org)
  • GE's maternity strategy is designed to steer its employees to hospitals that are believed to provide better care and less likely to recommend unnecessary and costly interventions, company officials told Reuters. (reuters.com)
  • Dow Chemical demanded explanations from hospitals that care for its employees when its C-section rate hit 44 percent several years ago. (reuters.com)
  • Local hospital system TriHealth agreed to a single "bundled" payment rate to care for low and moderate-risk mothers from the start of pregnancy until 90 days after the baby is born, rather than charge for each visit and delivery separately. (reuters.com)
  • Her care has cost hundreds of thousands of dollars so far, and she will need special treatment for the rest of her life. (nytimes.com)
  • While UCLA Health System has long prided itself on being at the forefront of treating patients like Giselle, it is now trying to lower sharply the cost of providing that care. (nytimes.com)
  • Many previous programs failed in the end to reduce costs or improve care. (nytimes.com)
  • But there are also signs that insurers, which traditionally have focused on paying hospitals and doctors the least they can, are working much more closely with providers to improve care. (nytimes.com)
  • Including cost-shifting, HAIs may cost closer to between $35 billion and $45 billion for acute-care hospitals annually. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, CMS can also penalize hospitals for high infection rates by tying reimbursements to factors influenced by infections, such as readmissions, mortality rates and patient satisfaction scores. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • CMS no longer reimburses hospitals for care provided to a patient who contracts an HAIs, which will impact many hospitals' bottom lines. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • The estimates are contained in budgets submitted to the state Hospital Cost Containment Board in Tallahassee by Florida's 217 acute-care institutions. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • New data highlights the hidden costs of lockdown for hospital patients needing non-urgent care. (newstalkzb.co.nz)
  • Last year, the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists reported 430,000 people had an un-met need for hospital care, but they estimate this has grown to about half a million since Covid. (newstalkzb.co.nz)
  • CareComplete programs provide extra support and personalised care to eligible Medibank hospital members when they need it most. (medibank.com.au)
  • This year the University of Illinois Hospital is trying something different to care for Glenn Baker and its other "superutilizers. (npr.org)
  • But he does point out that hospital care costs about $3,000 per day. (npr.org)
  • And the program is already showing results: Currently, the health care costs of the 15 people the hospital has helped house so far, including Baker, are down 42 percent. (npr.org)
  • C. Duane Dauner, director for the No on Measure F Coalition which is backed by local hospitals, said the initiative would not reduce costs to patients with private insurance or force insurers to issue rebates to patients who are charged too much for their care. (mercurynews.com)
  • Hospitals make up the difference by charging patients with private insurers 50 percent more than the cost of their care, which would no longer be allowed. (mercurynews.com)
  • Michael Borges, SEIU-UHW's assistant political director, said Affordable Care Act regulations already protect patients against paying insurers premiums more than 20 percent above the cost of care. (mercurynews.com)
  • Do High-Cost Hospitals Deliver Better Care? (nber.org)
  • We find that common indicators of hospital quality, such as indicators for "appropriate care" for heart attacks, are generally not associated with better patient outcomes. (nber.org)
  • Measuring Returns to Hospital Care: Evidence from Ambulance Referral Patterns. (nber.org)
  • A policy of omitting an intensive care unit stay after robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy is safe and cost-effective. (springer.com)
  • University Medical Center says they're working to collect donations, while Sunrise Hospital says they're still working to take care of patients needs and will be extremely sensitive to the financial status of the victims. (abcactionnews.com)
  • It you want us to be responsible for the total cost of care, allow us to be able to care comprehensively for these patients," said Dick Schirber, a spokesman for ExceleraRx Corp., a for-profit specialty pharmacy services company owned by six health systems. (businessinsurance.com)
  • Violence in our communities is a serious public health issue, and as such, it is of great concern to hospitals that care for victims of violence and also prepare for possible mass events. (aha.org)
  • Hospitals provide critical and lifesaving services to victims of violence within their communities, and also address violence beyond medical care. (aha.org)
  • This includes $280 million related to preparedness and prevention to address community violence, $852 million in unreimbursed medical care for victims of violence, $1.1 billion in security and training costs to prevent violence within hospitals, and an additional $429 million in medical care, staffing, indemnity, and other costs as a result of violence against hospital employees. (aha.org)
  • Additionally, hospitals all over the state will charge no more than 25% of the actual cost of providing health care. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • Dave Regan, President of the SEIU-United Health Care Workers West, said that in California alone, hospitals charge an average of 460% more than the actual cost of providing care. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • The cost for hospital care is getting beyond the means of far too many people in this state and we as health care workers want to do something about that. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • Centinela Hospital is owned by Prime Health Care Services. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • A spokesperson for Prime Health Care Services referred our call to the California Hospital Association, which was not available to comment by air time. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • Controlling health care costs has been on the political agenda both nationally and in California. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • Increasing financial pressure in hospitals, in addition to patient choice, has driven the evolution of HITH like a workable choice for supply of acute care, both in Australia and everywhere. (managedcaremag.com)
  • The cost-cutting plan was disclosed in a credit analysis by Standard & Poor's, which recently downgraded its long-term and underlying bond ratings on some $177 million in Lowell General debt to "BBB" from "BBB+" due to the care provider's ongoing operating losses, debt total and declines in inpatient discharges. (bizjournals.com)
  • The group includes a handful of physician and community health care practices as well as the remnants of Saints Medical Center, a 157-bed hospital that Lowell General acquired in 2012. (bizjournals.com)
  • The care provider's plans to eliminate some $5.4 million in costs this year follow another expense-cutting effort that saw Lowell General secure roughly $7 million in total savings in 2013, according to S&P. Excluding a handful of non-recurring events, Lowell General still booked a net operating loss of $10.2 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. (bizjournals.com)
  • Hospitals are increasingly motivated to implement clinical care pathways as a method of improving quality of care, with a focus on elimination of excess resource utilization and shortening the hospital length of stay," said lead author Richard Bold, professor and chief of surgical oncology at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center . (ucdavis.edu)
  • This comprehensive and independent cost study was undertaken to evaluate a number of structural frame options for construction of a four-storey, 480 bed Acute Care Hospital with operating theatres, and a two-storey, 96-bed Community Hospital. (concretecentre.com)
  • The higher patient volume accounted for 55.4% of the $83.6 billion increase in spending on hospital services during the period, while the remaining 44.6% growth was attributed to the costs to hospitals of providing patient care, according to the study, prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals. (plansponsor.com)
  • Key Drivers of Growth in Spending on Health Care, said the 55.4% of growth was composed of population growth accounting for 21.0% and the usage of hospital services accounting for the remaining 34.4% of the increase. (plansponsor.com)
  • However, the growth in spending on hospital care is trending toward moderation. (plansponsor.com)
  • Ten hospitals have closed in part or completely over the last decade, leaving gaping holes in the Los Angeles County's health-care network. (dailybulletin.com)
  • There are a few places Aussies should take extra care when visiting as a one night hospital stay can cost travellers over $4600. (qt.com.au)
Patients86
  • If the program, called the Admissions Scheduling and Control System, is a good a hospital administrators and federal officials say it is, it could provide a major tool for busy hospitals to handle more patients without expanding and for hospitals with high vacancy rates to close unneeded beds and reduce costs. (washingtonpost.com)
  • The purpose of the new system is to give a hospital a more stable patient population y reducing as much as possible fluctuations in the patient census by scheduling elective surgical and medical patients for admission at times when the hospital is being relatively under-used. (washingtonpost.com)
  • The trick for a crowded hospital like Greater Southeast is to find a way to bring in more nonemergency patients while still maintaining enough empty beds to accommodate the less predictable emergency admissions that will be coming in. (washingtonpost.com)
  • President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday afternoon that calls for hospitals to tell patients how much they charge for surgeries and other services. (yahoo.com)
  • The administration hopes to force hospitals and insurers to reveal the prices that they negotiate for services - information that is a closely guarded secret - and to estimate out-of-pocket costs for patients. (yahoo.com)
  • Memorial says Klein's efforts have saved the hospital money while giving patients access to appropriate drugs. (latimes.com)
  • But some doctors say the drive to control costs may prevent some patients from receiving drugs that may be better for them. (latimes.com)
  • Seated at her desk, Klein produced Exhibit A in her war on waste: a cardboard box containing 110 asthma inhalers that had been abandoned by patients leaving the hospital. (latimes.com)
  • When new, the inhalers contained a two-week supply, or 28 doses, of Advair, more than needed by patients during a typical hospital stay. (latimes.com)
  • Regarding Memorial's policy, spokeswoman Lisa Behrens said that hospital stays vary and it would be "concerning" if patients who needed Advair weren't able to get it. (latimes.com)
  • Stand-alone hospitals have too few patients to thrive in the new era of population health management. (wsj.com)
  • The increase may have been driven by recent hospital closures, which tend to concentrate patients at fewer hospitals. (crainsnewyork.com)
  • However, the data show that the hospitals with a low share of government-paid patients charge the most to private insurers. (courant.com)
  • Meanwhile, hospitals where Medicaid and Medicare represent a higher proportion of the patients lower their costs to match their revenues, Cooper said. (courant.com)
  • Study results showed that total inpatient costs were 4 percent higher for current smokers compared with patients who never smoked. (facs.org)
  • The same was not true for former smokers, for whom costs were not statistically significant compared with patients who never smoked. (facs.org)
  • After factoring in the complexity of the operation, researchers found that hospital costs for smokers who had more complex procedures were 6 percent higher compared with hospital costs for patients who never smoked. (facs.org)
  • The giant price tag to safety net hospitals for patients who are unable to pay their medical bills comes from a new analysis from the National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems. (forbes.com)
  • Yet, a hospital-based study found that patients who want to participate in their medical decisions end up spending more time in the hospital and raising costs of their hospital stay by an average of $865. (redorbit.com)
  • If 30 percent of those patients chose to share decision making rather than delegate that role to their doctors, it would mean $8.7 billion of additional costs per year, according to the study. (redorbit.com)
  • Patients who want to be more involved do not have lower costs. (redorbit.com)
  • Patients who preferred not to delegate decisions to their doctors-those who wanted to work with their caregivers to reach decisions-spent about 5 percent more time in the hospital and incurred about 6 percent higher costs. (redorbit.com)
  • Our results suggest that encouraging patients to be more involved will not, alone, reduce costs. (redorbit.com)
  • Patients with the most education had lower costs than those with the least education, the study found. (redorbit.com)
  • Competition tends to moderate charges and makes hospitals do a better job caring for patients, he said. (deseretnews.com)
  • A multi-institutional cohort of 1193 patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) were matched to an independent hospital where cost, in US$, and payment data existed. (nih.gov)
  • Per-patient hospital cost for negligible-risk patients was $37,855. (nih.gov)
  • As eSecurity Planet reports, beyond the risk of identity theft to affected patients the rampant data breaches are costing hospitals billions of dollars each year, according to latest report from data security and privacy research firm Ponemon Institute. (internetnews.com)
  • Congressional efforts to standardize and reduce the cost of Medicare reimbursements makes it unprofitable to treat many Medicare patients, particularly on an emergency admission basis, said Dr. Eric Munoz and colleagues at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • Munoz and the others, reporting in the Journal of the American Medical Association dated today, compared the amount of federal money the Long Island Jewish Medical Center was reimbursed for certain patients with the actual cost of treating those patients. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • In 1984 the hospital treated 1,784 Medicare patients on an emergency basis and was reimbursed an average of $7,733 a patient, down from $8,273 the previous year. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • At the same time, the cost of treating those patients increased from $7,616 to $9,710 each. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • As a result, Munoz said, the hospital lost more than $3.5 million on treating Medicare patients on an emergency basis in 1984. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • Researchers compared unplanned hospital admissions and emergency room visits for 496 patients at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio and a control group of 496 kids with similar illnesses who didn't receive a wish. (reuters.com)
  • Herrick suggests tools like MediBid.com, which allow patients to enter their procedures online and have a network of doctors and hospitals put out potential bids on a request. (foxbusiness.com)
  • It devises a simple approach for tracking the resources used by patients being treated for diverse medical conditions, as an input to a time-driven activity-based costing model. (hbs.edu)
  • However, hospital-treated patients were referred more often for MRIs and CT scans (8 percent, compared with 6 percent) than community-treated patients, more often for X-ray testing (13 percent, compared with 9 percent) and more often for an evaluation by a specialist (19 percent, compared with 7.6 percent). (insurancejournal.com)
  • A report it published found one of the highest expenses for cancer patients is the cost of car parking, at an average of €62 per month for the 80 per cent who have to pay during treatment. (thetimes.co.uk)
  • Delays in discharging patients out of hospital after treatment could be costing the NHS in England £900m a year, an independent review has said. (bbc.com)
  • It said it was a "major problem" causing operations to be cancelled and resulting in the NHS paying private hospitals to see patients. (bbc.com)
  • Under such a system, if a hospital does additional tests and procedures or if patients get infections or are readmitted, the hospital bears the cost. (nytimes.com)
  • Starting sacubitril-valsartan (Entresto) in patients hospitalized with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) is not only cost-effective, but actually cost-saving, as compared with outpatient initiation, a new analysis shows. (medscape.com)
  • Compared with continuation of enalapril indefinitely, switching patients to sacubitril-valsartan during their HF admission was associated with a cost per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gained of $21,532. (medscape.com)
  • On a short-term basis, initiation of this drug in the hospital both saves money and improves patients' lives, but even considering a lifetime commitment to the medication, it still offers good value for the money," said Thomas A. Gaziano, MD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, lead author of the analysis published online August 12 in JAMA Cardiology . (medscape.com)
  • Going a step further than many cost-effectiveness analyses, the authors looked at the national budget impact of 100% use of sacubitril-valsartan in eligible patients. (medscape.com)
  • Forty-one percent say the hospital mergers could produce better health outcomes for patients. (chicagobusiness.com)
  • Most hospitals aren't intentionally hiding costs, they're just not used to patients asking. (sify.com)
  • Kudia said some patients do ask in advance about costs of surgery and other medical procedures, and those questions require "a little bit of research" to come up with an average estimate. (sify.com)
  • In the first half of the two-year study, patients cared for by hospitalists stayed in the hospital about one-third of a day less than those cared for by internists. (uchospitals.edu)
  • The study involved 6,511 patients admitted to the general medical service at the University of Chicago Hospitals between July 1, 1997, and June 30, 1999. (uchospitals.edu)
  • The two hospitalists, part of a new service at the Hospitals in 1997, rapidly accumulated experience caring for the specific needs of hospitalized patients. (uchospitals.edu)
  • They continued to see other patients in the outpatient setting and spent two months or less each year caring for patients in the hospital. (uchospitals.edu)
  • In addition, the rates paid by Medicare and Medicaid, Askinazi adds, often fail to cover the hospital's cost of providing the service in the first place, which means some of those costs are often shifted to commercially insured patients. (rd.com)
  • The billing department told Palmer that the steep price was not only because it was a robotic procedure but also because patients who receive the high-tech surgery shortly after the hospital starts offering it are helping to recoup the facility's equipment costs. (rd.com)
  • Madison hospitals are taking cost-cutting measures to try to recoup lost revenue from canceled surgeries and the added expense of treating COVID-19 patients. (wpr.org)
  • In mid-March, hospitals around the state [3] postponed elective surgeries to make room for COVID-19 patients and to protect surgical patients from the possibility of coronavirus infection. (wpr.org)
  • The Cleveland Clinic, another medical powerhouse that has little difficulty attracting patients and demanding high prices, is trying group visits for diabetic patients so more people can be seen at a lower cost. (nytimes.com)
  • The excess costs of HAIs increase substantially among patients who also contract MRSA. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • HAIs also typically lead to longer lengths of stay for patients, which is another factor that drives up costs. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Again, MRSA can skyrocket costs by increasing the length of stay for SSI patients by 23 extra days and CLABSI patients by 15.7 extra days. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Some hospital officials attribute dropping occupancy rates to patients leaving hospitals sooner and to the fact that fewer people are being treated as in-patients. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • Data from the District Health Board, shows thousands of patients are waiting longer than the expected four months for specialist treatment, with Auckland hospitals straining to catch up. (newstalkzb.co.nz)
  • Patty Zion, a nurse at the hospital on the West Side, says she knows Baker well: "He's one of our very famous patients who comes around and sees us quite often when he's not feeling well. (npr.org)
  • In the medical world, patients like Baker are often called "superutilizers" or "frequent fliers" - people with a mix of chronic medical problems, mental health issues and homelessness that drive them to visit the hospital far more than the average patient. (npr.org)
  • By contrast, the hospital pays about $1,000 a month for the patients' apartments. (npr.org)
  • He said the initiative also doesn't factor in management costs, like administrative salaries and licensing fees, which are passed on to patients. (mercurynews.com)
  • This paper provides a new lens to compare hospital performance for emergency patients: plausibly exogenous variation in ambulance-company assignment. (nber.org)
  • Using Medicare data from 2002-2008, we show that ambulance company assignment importantly affects hospital choice for patients in the same zip code. (nber.org)
  • Using data for New York state from 2000-2006 that matches exact patient addresses to hospital discharge records, we show that patients who live very near each other but on either side of ambulance-dispatch boundaries go to different types of hospitals. (nber.org)
  • As providers face pressure to reduce costs on the front end - for their patients - they're also feeling the pinch on the back end: their bottom lines. (healthcareitnews.com)
  • With specialty drug spending soaring 60% in the past five years, large health systems have jumped into the specialty pharmacy business to assert some control over those costs by dispensing the drugs to their patients and covered employees. (businessinsurance.com)
  • A growing number of insurance contracts and Medicare initiatives tie payments to quality metrics that reach beyond hospital stays to hold providers accountable for patients' total medical costs, including drugs. (businessinsurance.com)
  • SHH's current cost system assigns total nursing costs to the ER and OR based on the number of patients serviced by each line. (bartleby.com)
  • After discussion with several experienced nurses, Jack Bauer (SHH's accountant) decided that assigning nursing costs to the two service lines based on the number of times that nurses must check patients' vital signs might more closely match the underlying use of costly hospital resources. (bartleby.com)
  • Therefore, for comparative purposes, Jack decided to develop a second cost system that assigns total nursing costs to the ER and OR based on the number of times nurses check patients' vital signs. (bartleby.com)
  • Many patients and visitors experience high-stress, emotionally charged situations during their time in the hospital that can sometimes lead to aggressive behavior. (aha.org)
  • As such, hospitals and health systems make significant investments in infrastructure, staff, and training in order to keep their workers, patients, and visitors safe. (aha.org)
  • Hospitals and health systems every day see patients who are impacted by violence and human trafficking. (aha.org)
  • These are the prices hospitals all over the state are allegedly charging patients. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • The union says on average Centinela patients are charged 789 percent of the hospital's cost. (intersectionssouthla.org)
  • Back in Victoria, the 2nd most populous country in Australia, HITH replacements to get a serious hospital entrance and delivers a broad assortment of acute services to patients having diverse clinical problems. (managedcaremag.com)
  • In fact, the 34 patients with complications (38 percent) drove up the total average cost for all 89 patients far more dramatically than any difference in hospital length of stay. (ucdavis.edu)
  • The exponential relationship between hospital length of stay and charges for patients with complications - in comparison to the linear relationship for patients without - demonstrates that a complication has an impact on increased charges above and beyond that of a prolonged hospitalization, the authors conclude. (ucdavis.edu)
  • An audit finds the Interim LSU Public Hospital in New Orleans did not confirm patients were eligible for a federally-funded HIV program for low-income individuals and families.While the hospital has since outsourced eligibility screenings to the Department of Health and Hospitals, no plan is yet in place to recover the nearly $67,000 in "questioned costs. (wdsu.com)
  • An audit finds the Interim LSU Public Hospital in New Orleans did not confirm patients were eligible for a federally-funded HIV program for low-income individuals and families. (wdsu.com)
  • Patients and their children in receipt of means tested benefits, or on a low income, could get help with the cost of travel to hospital appointments. (wikipedia.org)
Insurers10
  • The study, called The Price Ain't Right, analyzed claims from 88.7 million people covered by Aetna, UnitedHealthcare and Humana from 2007 to 2011, which revealed the prices hospitals negotiate with private insurers. (courant.com)
  • Hospitals know what they are paid by insurers, but it bears little relationship to their costs. (nytimes.com)
  • Hospitals and insurers negotiate contracts for both hospital-employed physicians and hospital technical services. (washingtontimes.com)
  • In exchange, hospitals then have more leverage with health insurers to raise rates further. (washingtontimes.com)
  • Hospitals should pay their employed physicians based on their collections from insurers. (washingtontimes.com)
  • Consumer groups and insurers were already complaining loudly about drug costs. (canadianbusiness.com)
  • Hospitals say they can't easily pass on the cost of pricey drugs because private insurers and government programs like Medicare usually pay a pre-determined amount per case. (canadianbusiness.com)
  • After years of self-acknowledged profligacy, hospitals, doctors and health insurers say there is a strong effort under way to bring medical costs under control. (nytimes.com)
  • The goal isn't to police insurers, he said, but to reduce hospital profits - particularly Stanford. (mercurynews.com)
  • The finding, published in JAMA Surgery , challenges current cost-cutting strategies routinely used by administrators and insurers that emphasize shorter lengths of stay in the hospital. (ucdavis.edu)
Outpatient5
  • This study assessed whether outpatient prescription drug utilization produced offsets in the cost of hospitalization for Medicare beneficiaries. (rwjf.org)
  • The study found that Medicare paid $2.7 billion more for echocardiograms, colonoscopies, arthrocentesis, and diagnostic cardiac catheterizations performed in hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) than it would have if those services had been performed in the offices of independent physicians. (medscape.com)
  • The impact of hospitals owning outpatient practices places a greater financial burden on Medicare beneficiaries and taxpayers. (medscape.com)
  • Hospitals also face lower patient volume, with an average decline of 19.5 percent in inpatient volume and 34.5 percent decline in outpatient volume. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Health systems say those pharmacies help them better manage outpatient drug costs. (businessinsurance.com)
Outcomes8
  • Proponents argue that this approach promotes doctor-patient communication, enhances patient satisfaction, improves health outcomes, and even may lower cost. (redorbit.com)
  • The software also tracks such outcomes as days in the hospital and readmissions. (nytimes.com)
  • A pulldown menu compares each doctor's costs and outcomes with others' in the department. (nytimes.com)
  • Primary study outcomes were rate of SSI by surgical category and impact of SSI on length of stay and cost. (nih.gov)
  • On the other hand, we find that measures of "leading edge" hospitals, such as teaching hospitals and hospitals that quickly adopt the latest technologies, are associated with better outcomes, but have little impact on the estimated mortality-hospital cost relationship. (nber.org)
  • Therefore, we sought to evaluate the relationships between pancreatic surgery costs with perioperative outcomes and volume status. (springer.com)
  • Patient and hospital characteristics on the variance of perioperative outcomes for pancreatic resection in the United States: a plea for outcome-based and not volume-based referral guidelines. (springer.com)
  • Effect of hospital volume on surgical outcomes after pancreaticoduodenectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. (springer.com)
Readmissions2
  • Bottom right: Parkland Hospital, where the PCCI program aims to reduce hospital readmissions and improve the quality of life of those who frequently have no other place to turn. (politico.com)
  • Generalized linear modeling adjusting for demographic, clinical, and operation characteristics was performed to assess the relationships between cost and length of stay, complications, in-hospital mortality, readmissions, and hospital volume. (springer.com)
20201
  • Hospitals are predicted to lose an estimated $325 billion between March and December 2020, according to the American Hospital Association . (beckershospitalreview.com)
Utilization3
  • First, recent changes in the economic environment in which hospitals operate has caused their utilization rates in the U.S. to fall sharply over the past decade, making previous estimates inaccurate. (repec.org)
  • Princeton Community Hospital and Amerinet are currently analyzing other plant engineering opportunities for energy utilization savings and capital renovations. (prweb.com)
  • Surgical site infection: incidence and impact on hospital utilization and treatment costs. (nih.gov)
National Children's Hospital2
  • Sir, - The original cost of the National Children's Hospital was supposed to be under €1 billion. (irishtimes.com)
  • The project director of the new National Children's Hospital, who oversaw its controversial escalation in construction costs to €1.4bn, is to resign. (independent.ie)
Medicare27
  • Does Medicare cover hospital beds? (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Medicare covers a hospital bed and many other durable medical equipment (DME) items if they are medically necessary. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Original Medicare covers 80% of the cost under Part B, while Medicare Advantage covers a percentage that varies with the plan. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • It then examines the Medicare policy of renting hospital beds, as well as factors that affect DME cost. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Medicare puts a hospital bed in the category of durable medical equipment, which means it can withstand repeated use. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • If a person has original Medicare, Part B covers a hospital bed and other DME. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Medigap is Medicare supplement insurance, which pays 50-100% of original Medicare (parts A and B) out-of-pocket costs, including those for DME. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • For more expensive equipment, such as a hospital bed, Medicare pays a rental fee for 13 months of a person's continuous use. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • A key factor affecting DME cost is whether a supplier participates in Medicare. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • How much does Medicare pay for a hospital stay? (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Medicare pays for inpatient hospital stays of a certain length. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Medicare covers the first 60 days of a hospital stay after the person has paid the deductible. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Which part of Medicare pays for hospital stays? (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Before Medicare starts covering the cost of a hospital stay, the insured person must meet the deductible. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Medicare covers a hospital stay of up to 90 days , though a person may still need to pay coinsurance during this time. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Medicare Part B covers different medical costs. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Medicare Part A helps cover the costs of stays at different types of inpatient facility. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Code 149 (the Diagnosis Related Grouping (DRG) Prospective Payment System (PPS)), shall be required to file Medicaid and Medicare cost reports within 150 days after the close of that provider's fiscal year. (illinois.gov)
  • Medicare hospital cost reports are listed by their Medicare ID, fiscal year (mmyy) format, city, and facility name. (illinois.gov)
  • Requests for Medicare hospital reports not listed on this Web site should be submitted directly to Federal CMS . (illinois.gov)
  • That means regions that look great on Medicare spending aren't necessarily those with good cost control for private customers, and vice versa. (courant.com)
  • The Connecticut Hospital Association, the hospitals' lobbying group, says Medicare covers 89 percent of the cost of delivering services, and Medicaid covers 69 percent. (courant.com)
  • The state makes payments to hospitals with more Medicare and Medicaid clients to make up for those losses. (courant.com)
  • Compared with their independent peers, hospital-employed physicians cost the Medicare program more for four procedures from 2012 to 2015, according to a new report released last week by the Physicians Advocacy Institute (PAI). (medscape.com)
  • The independent physician bills Medicare under the program's physician fee schedule (PFS) at a "nonfacility rate," meaning the site is not part of a hospital. (medscape.com)
  • Aware of the enormous costs involved, Congress began to whittle down the Medicare pay differential, on the basis of location, in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. (medscape.com)
  • Board analysts attributed the lower hospital charges to moderating inflation, more competition and the tightening of federal Medicare payment policies. (orlandosentinel.com)
Inpatient hospital3
  • They then used the second 12 months to characterize beneficiaries' use of prescription drugs and inpatient hospital expenditures. (rwjf.org)
  • For an inpatient hospital stay, those computations sprout into an intricate vine in which every service (from radiology to pathology) generates its own charges. (rd.com)
  • Costs ballooned so fast that officials scrapped those plans and instead opted to build an entirely new seven-story inpatient hospital tower estimated at $450 million. (dailybulletin.com)
Medical37
  • In an effort to control rising pital casts, President Carter, against the vehement objection of the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association, has asked Congress to impose a limit of roughly 9 per cent on the annual increase in revenues that a hospital may receive. (washingtonpost.com)
  • If an adult or dependent child has to travel to your treatment with you for medical reasons, you can claim their travel costs too. (nidirect.gov.uk)
  • The diagnosis can cost taxpayers as much as $1.5 million per soldier, according to an Army Medical Command memo obtained by the Seattle Times . (go.com)
  • People with PTSD are twice as likely to lose their job or be unemployed," said Dr. Joseph Calabrese, a psychiatrist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. (go.com)
  • Beth Israel Medical Center had the largest growth in its operating expenses between 2010 and 2009, up 9.6%, according to the latest ranking of top hospitals in the June 13 issue of Crain's New York Business . (crainsnewyork.com)
  • New York-Presbyterian Hospital topped the list of largest hospitals with operating expenses of $3.3 billion in 2010, followed by Montefiore Medical Center ($2.8 billion), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ($2.4 billion) and Mount Sinai Hospital ($1.5 billion). (crainsnewyork.com)
  • The overuse of medical tests and procedures driven by a fear of malpractice lawsuits, commonly known as defensive medicine, has been estimated to cost $46 billion annually in the U.S., although those costs have been measured indirectly. (eurekalert.org)
  • Our findings suggest that only a small portion of medical costs might be reduced by tort reform. (eurekalert.org)
  • A new academic study that uses hundreds of millions of private insurance claims to gain insight into medical spending found that some hospitals' fees for the same services were four times higher than others in the same market. (courant.com)
  • When Oroville Hospital decided to digitize its patient medical records three years ago, like all hospitals, it shopped around for a vendor. (forbes.com)
  • He suggested this in testimony favoring many parts of a D.C. Council bill that would prevent hospitals and doctors from building or installing needed medical facilities. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Along with officials of Blue Cross-Blue Shield and the D.C. Hospital Association - the hospitals' group - Russo favored far tougher standards for getting a "certificate of need" than anything the District requires now for any building, expansion or medical equipment worth more than $150,000. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Ginsburg testified that while medical technology advances are far and away the most important cost driver over time, changes in people's incomes affect cost trends in the nearer term, but with a substantial lag. (plansponsor.com)
  • This, the researchers conclude, suggests that an added benefit of the Make-a-Wish program may be lower hospital costs or lower medical bills. (reuters.com)
  • Other medical institutions, including MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Mayo Clinic, based in Rochester, Minn., are also trying to get a handle on costs. (nytimes.com)
  • Nationwide, only 14 percent of these employers say that hospital mergers will reduce their costs, while 39 percent predict medical costs are likely to be higher post-merger, according to a survey of employers by the Midwest Business Group on Health , a Chicago-based employers association. (chicagobusiness.com)
  • A few online sites provide price comparisons for common medical procedures, but the editorial said that kind of information "is of almost no value" without information on hospital quality. (sify.com)
  • The cost insurance companies pay for a medical operation in a hospital varies dramatically from city to city within the U.S. and can even vary by a factor of nine within an individual city, according to new research. (time.com)
  • These include the cost of housing and facilitating the service, such as the wages of nurses and technicians, and medical equipment costs. (washingtontimes.com)
  • Benefit brokers with clients looking to alter their medical coverage by boosting deductibles, increasing out-of-pocket maximums or raising employee participation rates might consider an employer-paid hospital insurance plan like Unum's. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • Employer-paid hospital insurance could also provide options for employers looking to add a second or third medical plan option to help employees as they take on higher health cost-sharing burdens, Unum said. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • Employees get the protection they need and even if they enroll in an employer-sponsored medical plan with high cost-sharing, they are covered for hospital visits without having to dip into retirement savings or health savings account balances, Bello said. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • While the value of a house is based on an assessment, and the cost for an antique is determined by an appraisal, a full explanation of medical costs is hard to come by. (rd.com)
  • Surprisingly, medical services can vary wildly from one hospital to the next. (rd.com)
  • DENVER (AP) - A former Veterans Affairs Department executive who was harshly criticized by Congress for massive cost overruns at a new Colorado VA medical center said he was never told the price had ballooned to more than $1.7 billion before he left the agency, and does not know how it happened. (washingtontimes.com)
  • An inadvertent data leak that stemmed from a physician's attempt to reconfigure a server cost New York Presbyterian (NYP) Hospital and Columbia University (CU) Medical Center $4.8 million to settle with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). (computerworld.com)
  • But they illustrate yet another path companies are taking to bring down U.S. medical costs by working with doctors and hospitals to set health goals. (reuters.com)
  • According to Dr. White, the estimated direct medical cost of HAIs is around $10 billion annually, not including cost-shifting to private payers. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Some of the components of direct medical costs include hospital admissions, increased length of stay and patient mortality that results from. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Indirectly, HAIs lead to a considerable financial burden and even bankruptcy for many patient families, as well as costs for medical malpractice cases and hospital liability. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Medibank is supporting a program to help eligible members pay no out-of-pocket medical costs for some joint replacements at participating hospitals. (medibank.com.au)
  • A few towns, like the ski resort and arts community of Sandpoint, Idaho, are able to attract medical school graduates who want to practice specialty medicine but are willing to take emergency-room shifts in return for hospital privileges. (csmonitor.com)
  • Las Vegas hospitals are showing their commitment to the #VegasStrong movement by helping the victims of the Route 91 mass shooting with their medical cost. (abcactionnews.com)
  • The remaining 44.6% growth was due to increases in wages paid to hospital workers, higher prices in prescription drug and medical devices and liability insurance premiums. (plansponsor.com)
  • Several local hospitals, including Little Company of Mary in San Pedro and Torrance, along with Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center in Harbor City, are currently awaiting HAZUS reports from the state on various buildings to determine what work needs to be done. (dailybulletin.com)
  • Luckily there are precautions that can be taken to greatly reduce costs if you do find yourself in need of medical attention in one of these countries. (qt.com.au)
  • In most cases travel insurance with medical cover is far cheaper than what you'd have to fork out for a hospital stay overseas,' she said. (qt.com.au)
Children's hospital5
  • An initial report into the massive over-run for the children's hospital budget raised questions about the role of the design team in the escalation, the Dáil has heard. (independent.ie)
  • Concerns raised by the National Paediatric Children's Hospital Board (NPHDB) about the capability of the lead contractor, BAM, were also raised during the latest Dáil debate on the issue. (independent.ie)
  • John has led this project over the past five years, bringing the new children's hospital from a vision to one that is now much closer to becoming a reality," he said. (independent.ie)
  • "Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs (V)." Harvard Business School Case 113-057, November 2012. (hbs.edu)
  • Kaplan, Robert S. "Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs. (hbs.edu)
Expenditures1
  • Throughout this report, we examine costs from the viewpoint of hospitals and health systems, identifying the expenditures and resource needs involved in responding to violence within their communities and workplaces. (aha.org)
Billions1
  • A federally-financed program developed at the University of Michigan has produced a system that could save billions of dollars a year in hospital costs, according to U.S. officials. (washingtonpost.com)
Patient27
  • The savings to the hospital from the more efficient use of existing resources and personnel is about $6 a day per patient. (washingtonpost.com)
  • In March, Klein persuaded the hospital to substitute drugs that use a different kind of inhaler, one that could be loaded with the exact number of doses each patient needed. (latimes.com)
  • Of the orders, 28 percent were rated as defensive and the mean cost was $1,695 per patient, of which $226 (13 percent) was defensive. (eurekalert.org)
  • That finding translated into a higher cost of approximately $900 for each patient who underwent a surgical procedure, Dr. Kamath said. (facs.org)
  • In fact, the authors note, "Policies that increase patient engagement may increase length of stay and costs. (redorbit.com)
  • Such prediction may help hospitals and payers plan for resource allocation and payment matched to patient risk, while providing a benchmark for quality improvement initiatives. (nih.gov)
  • King, a 480-bed county hospital in Watts, has been repeatedly criticized for severe weaknesses in the its revenue office, which is responsible for trying to collect more than $150 million annually for patient services. (latimes.com)
  • Now, Diane Weissburg, a self-described whistle-blower who is director of patient accounts at King, says she repeatedly warned hospital officials about waste and mismanagement in the hospital's billing office that cost the county about $22 million during the 1985-86 fiscal year alone, she estimates. (latimes.com)
  • His group decided to go through every single process a patient experiences and figure out what the hospital paid for each person caring for the patient. (nytimes.com)
  • Routine hip replacement surgery on a healthy patient without insurance may cost as little as $11,000 - or up to nearly $126,000. (sify.com)
  • Hospitals were told the made-up patient was the caller's grandmother, had no insurance but could afford to pay out of pocket - that's why knowing the cost information ahead of time was so important. (sify.com)
  • By the second year, the difference increased to half a day, which reduced costs by an average of $782 per patient. (uchospitals.edu)
  • While average adjusted costs per patient increased by $100 (from $8,701 to $8,801) for the generalists from year one to year two, it fell by $629 for the hospitalists (from $8,648 to $8,019), for a total difference in year two of $782 per patient. (uchospitals.edu)
  • At Memorial we've implemented initiatives to sharpen our focus on the core competencies of the health system and achieve best in class in quality, cost, and the patient experience," Hobson said. (timesfreepress.com)
  • The hospitals also agreed to take "substantive" corrective action, including development of a new risk management plan and new policies and procedures for handling patient data. (computerworld.com)
  • The total direct, indirect and nonmedical social costs of HAIs are estimated at around $96 billion to $147 billion annually, including loss of work, legal costs and other patient factors. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • If you were to take all of these costs and average them across the hospital and across every patient, with or without an HAI, it would amount to a surcharge of $1,100 per patient admitted to the hospital," said Dr. White. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • For instance, a patient with an SSI and MRSA costs the hospital roughly $42,000 more than a patient without an HAI, and a patient with comorbid CLABSI and MRSA costs $58,500 extra. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • The average per-patient bill at Brevard hospitals is expected to rise from $3,172 to $3,572 this year while the state average is projected to go from $4,361 to $4,669, according to state officials. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • At Jess Parrish Memorial Hospital in Titusville, an average 8.4 percent increase in per-patient charges is projected, from $3,002 to $3,296, said Elizabeth Vieira, director of marketing and planning. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • Some hospital officials said it would be unfair to judge the institutions simply on their average charge per patient because some hospitals offer far more expensive specialized services and are buying more expensive equipment than others. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • A hospital employee union-sponsored initiative that aims to reduce patient costs will go before voters in Palo Alto and Livermore in November. (mercurynews.com)
  • Endogenous patient sorting across hospitals can confound performance comparisons. (nber.org)
  • They know if the patient is getting the value for the high-cost drug," said Steven Rough, director of pharmacy for the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, which began handling transplant drugs in 2006 and expanded its specialty pharmacy in 2011. (businessinsurance.com)
  • When it comes to a specific type of pancreatic surgery, post-operative complications have a far greater impact on total cost than does how long the patient stays in the hospital, according to a published paper by UC Davis researchers. (ucdavis.edu)
  • February 20, 2003 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Hospital spending continued to rise from 1997 to 2001 behind an increase in patient volume and the rising costs of goods and services. (plansponsor.com)
  • At a cost of $1,000 per square foot, hospital construction is about three times more pricey than construction on regular commercial space, according to the RAND Corp. Hospital administrators say that including equipment and personnel, each patient bed costs about $2 million. (dailybulletin.com)
California6
  • 1993. " Hospital Costs and Excess Bed Capacity: A Statistical Analysis ," Economics Working Papers 93-209, University of California at Berkeley. (repec.org)
  • For the 153-bed Northern California hospital, it meant shelling out a fortune, and falling behind on cash flow because of billing interruption during implementation. (forbes.com)
  • A study recently released by researchers at the University of California San Francisco finds surgery costs can vary widely at different hospitals, even if they are just down the street or right around the corner from each other. (foxbusiness.com)
  • A California study published last year about surgery to remove an appendix found similar cost disparities. (sify.com)
  • Hospitals are really up against the gun," said Jim Lott, executive director of the Hospital Association of Southern California, an industry trade group. (dailybulletin.com)
  • Here in Southern California, we have a much higher concentration of hospitals at risk (for earthquake damage), and with about 40 percent of hospitals already operating in the red, you can see how serious this is. (dailybulletin.com)
Stays3
  • In this article, we describe Medicare's coverage of hospital stays and look at how much a person may still need to spend out of pocket. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The study, published in the Dec. 3 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine , found that 'hospitalists' can reduce short-term mortality, decrease hospital stays and cut costs. (uchospitals.edu)
  • Prime Minister Bill English says the cost of land in central Dunedin will be a ''critical factor'' in whether Dunedin Hospital stays in the CBD. (odt.co.nz)
Researchers13
  • Researchers then examined hospital costs in three areas: the operation, subsequent readmission within 30 days of discharge, and length of hospital stay. (facs.org)
  • Upon further analysis, the researchers found that, in fact, postoperative respiratory complications, and not length of hospital stay, account for the added expense for smokers undergoing elective general surgery operations. (facs.org)
  • and the risk that both indirect and direct costs of surgery will drive people into poverty - the researchers assessed nationwide data on Colombia. (eurekalert.org)
  • The researchers found that Medicare's ''prospective pay system,'' under which hospitals get a fixed fee depending upon the ailment treated, probably kept the federal government's costs down but was costing the hospital a great deal of money. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • The average national cost of a wish is $10,130, which covers the expenses related to the wish experience including overhead and staffing needs, researchers note in the journal Pediatrics Research. (reuters.com)
  • To assess how "wishes" impacted health costs, researchers looked at total hospital charges for kids who received wishes and kids who didn't and considered cases whether or not the charges were equal to or exceeded the typical $10,130 cost of a wish. (reuters.com)
  • The researchers say their findings suggest that more immediate access to specialists and the proximity and convenience of imaging services in hospitals may drive physicians in such settings to overuse them. (insurancejournal.com)
  • The researchers estimated the yearly cost of sacubitril-valsartan at $5628, based on wholesale drug costs. (medscape.com)
  • That's what researchers found after calling hospitals in every state, 122 in all, asking what a healthy 62-year-old woman would have to pay to get an artificial hip. (sify.com)
  • The researchers were able to obtain a complete price estimate including physician fees from close to half the hospitals. (sify.com)
  • Our calls to hospitals were often greeted by uncertainty and confusion," the researchers wrote. (sify.com)
  • An editorial accompanying the hip replacement study said "there is no justification" for the huge cost variation the researchers found. (sify.com)
  • Researchers also found that locations with a single hospital tended to have prices that were 15% higher than in markets with four or more options. (time.com)
Eligible Medibank hospital members1
  • Health Concierge provides personalised health support to help eligible Medibank hospital members prepare for, or recover from, a hospital stay or treatment. (medibank.com.au)
Differences6
  • Meanwhile, Lord Carter said hospitals across England must end "stark" differences in spending and productivity, Lord Carter added. (bbc.com)
  • These price differences between hospitals can be thousands of dollars," said study author Martin Gaynor, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. (time.com)
  • The concrete examples of cost differences are startling. (time.com)
  • We also find that hospital procedure intensity is a key determinant of the mortality-cost relationship, suggesting that treatment intensity, and not differences in quality reflected in prices, drives much of our findings. (nber.org)
  • Six floor design options were evaluated, budget costings were assigned to all elements of construction and adjustments were made to reflect time-related costs attributable to differences in the construction programme. (concretecentre.com)
  • They found a wide variation in the amounts paid out by different hospitals, without any obvious explanation of the differences. (wikipedia.org)
20191
  • Moves by Governors like Florida's Rick Scott (pictured here) and Rick Perry of Texas to opt out of participating in the expansion of the Medicaid health insurance program for the poor could cost public hospitals more than $50 billion by 2019, according to a new analysis. (forbes.com)
Estimate8
  • Officials at Greater Southeast, which invested about $17,000 to have the system developed by a concultant estimate that it will save the hospital more than $750,000 a year. (washingtonpost.com)
  • The estimated cost of the new hospital, on the campus of St James's Hospital in Dublin, has risen from an original estimate of €650m to more than €1.7bn. (independent.ie)
  • The authors estimated the cost of defensive medicine on three services - tests, procedures or hospitalizations - by asking physicians to estimate the defensiveness of their own orders. (eurekalert.org)
  • About 15 percent of hospitals did not provide any price estimate, even after a researcher called back as many as five times. (sify.com)
  • Haggstrom, who was the VA's top construction official when the project nearly collapsed amid legal disputes and skyrocketing costs, said the last estimate he heard from the builder before he was removed from the project was about $890 million. (washingtontimes.com)
  • The VA then asked the Army Corps of Engineers to estimate the cost, and the answer, delivered in March 2015, was a staggering $1.73 billion. (washingtontimes.com)
  • He said cost projections kept rising, and the highest estimate he saw from Kiewit-Turner was about $890 million. (washingtontimes.com)
  • KT's estimate of the construction costs, based largely on actual market prices from a diminishing pool of competitively bid subcontractors, continued to increase through 2013, reaching in excess of $1 billion in July 2013," wrote Allen Aardsma of FTI Consulting in Denver. (denverpost.com)
Hospitalization4
  • A benefit period starts on the first day of hospitalization and ends 60 consecutive days after the person's discharge from the hospital or skilled nursing facility. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • Unum Group's employer-paid hospital coverage offers workers a fixed cash benefit to cover out-of-pocket costs for events that require hospitalization such as childbirth, illness or accidents. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • With out-of-pocket costs associated with hospitalization rising, offering employees hospital insurance can help sweeten a benefits package to attract and retain top talent" Bello said. (insurancenewsnet.com)
  • The unadjusted mean cost for pancreatic resection and corresponding hospitalization was $20,352. (springer.com)
Beds6
  • The admissions scheduling system also can be used to help hospitals close unneeded beds, possibly aiding in the reduction of a 100,000-bed surplus in the United States that is costing more than an estimated $1 billion a year. (washingtonpost.com)
  • It's pretty clear that there is not a demonstrated need for building additional beds in Utah County," said Larry Dursteler, hospital administrator.HealthTrust Inc., a national for-profit corporation that owns Payson's Mountain View Hospital, is considering building a new hospital in Provo. (deseretnews.com)
  • A law of force hospitals to close excess wards was proposed yesterday by Albert P. Russo, the District's acting human resources director, as a step to deal with the city's growing problem of unneeded hospital beds. (washingtonpost.com)
  • District hospitals last year were just under 80 per cent occupied, leaving hundreds of empty beds. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Do taxpayers pay for jails and hospital beds after the crisis hits? (jsonline.com)
  • That number drops off massively in other popular spots like Thailand and Fiji, with hospital beds averaging around $50. (qt.com.au)
Reduce13
  • Among the detailed memos Weissburg provided to The Times is one dated Sept. 7, 1987, to King's administrator, William Delgardo, requesting an investigation of what appeared to be phony billing documentation being prepared by hospital staff to reduce a mounting backlog of Medi-Cal claims. (latimes.com)
  • Be honest with your doctor about your financial situation, he or she might be able to find a lower-cost alternative or make suggestions to reduce costs. (foxbusiness.com)
  • That knowledge can help both frontline clinicians and hospital leaderships find ways to eliminate or at least reduce such unnecessary services. (insurancejournal.com)
  • We can check your cover and provide advice to help reduce your out-of-pocket costs. (medibank.com.au)
  • NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Electric Co GE.N and other large companies are trying to chip away at rising childbirth costs for U.S. employees, working directly with hospitals to reduce cesarean sections and related complications. (reuters.com)
  • The effort is part of a much broader ambition by UCLA Health System to reduce its costs by 30 percent, or hundreds of millions of dollars, over the next five years, according to Dr. David T. Feinberg, the system's president. (nytimes.com)
  • In Michigan, for example, Blue Cross financed an effort to have the state's major hospitals compare results in areas like bariatric or general surgery so that they could reduce infection rates and surgical complications. (nytimes.com)
  • By taking steps to reduce costs in the pharmacy and implement process improvements, hospitals can improve their financial standing in a time where many are currently struggling. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • During a July 23 webinar hosted by Becker's Hospital Review and sponsored by Comprehensive Pharmacy Services, three pharmacy industry experts discussed steps pharmacies can take to improve their finances and reduce operational risks. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Comprehensive Pharmacy Services helps pharmacies reduce costs and bring savings to their hospitals. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • The company puts safety and efficacy first while scrutinizing costs and helping pharmacies improve regulatory compliance and reduce operational risk. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • This reveals areas where pharmacies have room for improvement and where they can reduce costs. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Our teams are actively engaged in working together to find creative ways to work more efficiently and reduce costs to finish this current fiscal year strong and preserve our dedicated workforce. (bizjournals.com)
Officials9
  • Health officials say the number will grow because of hospital expansions under way or planned in the District, Maryland and Virginia. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Multiple investigations concluded the costs got out of hand because the VA did not oversee the project closely enough, did not assign enough officials to it, approved lavish design elements, failed to get the designers and builders to agree on the design and tried to use a complicated form of construction contract that agency executives did not fully understand. (washingtontimes.com)
  • But many hospitals have avoided financial strain through better management of resources, officials said. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • So far, County Hospital officials and staff are still only talking about how to relieve the emergency-room schedule, since little money is available. (csmonitor.com)
  • In a prepared statement sent by email, hospital officials expressed confidence in the operating plan in place and said they are responding accordingly to the "external pressures" that have weighed on Lowell General's bottom line in recent months. (bizjournals.com)
  • Hospitals across the South Bay are pouring millions of dollars into structural improvements to satisfy a strict new state law mandating seismic upgrades, but it's still uncertain whether officials will meet a looming deadline - and how they'll pay for it. (dailybulletin.com)
  • Officials at many of the struggling hospitals cited the impending seismic upgrades as reasons for their closure, Lott and others said. (dailybulletin.com)
  • Carlson and other hospital officials agree that the legislation will make hospitals safer, but one of the biggest criticisms is that it was an "unfunded mandate," meaning the state offered no monetary assistance. (dailybulletin.com)
  • Hospital officials have spent millions on structural engineers, architects, planning and market analysis to determine future needs of the community in order to compile their report by the end of this year, Hunn said. (dailybulletin.com)
Expenses6
  • Out-of-pocket expenses are the same for people staying in rehabilitation facilities as they would be for those in inpatient hospitals. (medicalnewstoday.com)
  • The Top 10 hospitals in the area-six of which are in Manhattan-each had 2010 operating expenses of more than $1 billion. (crainsnewyork.com)
  • His hospital had operating expenses of only $643 million, down $1.7 million from the previous year. (crainsnewyork.com)
  • I sadly have no insurance to cover me so all the hospital expenses have to come out of my own pocket making my situation alot more difficult than it already is for me. (gofundme.com)
  • Small companies rely on prompt payments to meet payroll and expenses, often unable to cover those costs for very long. (denverpost.com)
  • These studies demonstrated inconsistencies in cost techniques between HITH and systemic expenses. (managedcaremag.com)
Excess3
  • The present paper develops and estimates a cost model for U.S. hospitals which enables us to analyze the cost of excess bed capacity. (repec.org)
  • Our results, based on conservative estimates of the average optimal occupancy rate, indicate an annual cost of excess bed capacity (in current dollars) of $13.2 billion in 1989, $18.4 billion in 1991, and over $20 billion in 1993. (repec.org)
  • Our analysis documented nearly 1 million additional inpatient-days and $1.6 billion in excess costs. (nih.gov)
Complications1
  • Another aim of the current study was to determine if the increased costs found for smokers were primarily the result of respiratory complications. (facs.org)
Year21
  • The hospital more than $750,000 a year. (washingtonpost.com)
  • The cost reports are due in the Bureau of Health Finance within five months after the end of the hospital's fiscal year. (illinois.gov)
  • St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, Inc., part of the Mount Sinai Health System, is the ninth entity this year to settle potential HIPAA violations with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). (healthleadersmedia.com)
  • The government was last week ordered to pay the legal costs of an inquest into the death of a 3 year old girl who died after a hospital dosing error. (bmj.com)
  • That year, the Parkland Health and Hospital System christened a new $1.3 billion hospital, a 17-story glass-and-steel behemoth, shiny on the outside and quiet on the inside , funded by municipal bonds and donations from local oil zillionaires. (politico.com)
  • Rodney Short served 17 years in prison for rape, then was sent directly to Coalinga, where it costs about $175,000 a year to house one person. (insideedition.com)
  • Compared to children who didn't receive a wish, children who did 2.5 times more likely to have a drop in unplanned hospital admissions in the year after the wish compared to the year before, and 1.9 times more likely to have a drop in emergency room visits from the year before to the year after, the study found. (reuters.com)
  • It said if you take into account how much staffing and running a bed costs this works out at £900m a year. (bbc.com)
  • A proposed federal measure that would have required states to force hospitals to make their charges public failed to advance in Congress last year but could be revived this year, the editorial says. (sify.com)
  • But consumers have been alarmed by the introduction of breakthrough drugs costing tens of thousands of dollars a year, along with a spate of seemingly arbitrary price hikes for older medications. (canadianbusiness.com)
  • The VA's inspector general, an internal watchdog, said last year that Haggstrom knew the project was veering toward huge cost overruns but didn't tell lawmakers when he testified before Congress in 2013 and 2014. (washingtontimes.com)
  • MELBOURNE - Hospital charges in Brevard County are expected to go up an average of 13 percent this year, but still will be well below the state average. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • The average hospital stay in the state this year is estimated at 6.8 days, compared with 7.2 last year. (orlandosentinel.com)
  • In addition, the statement reads, the cost to the city of regulating its hospitals would be in the millions of dollars a year. (mercurynews.com)
  • Both strategies show that higher-cost hospitals have significantly lower one-year mortality rates compared to lower-cost hospitals. (nber.org)
  • For hospitals and health systems, especially, 2015 is a landmark year for everything related to costs. (healthcareitnews.com)
  • Lowell General Hospital and its affiliates have launched a reorganization plan to eliminate at least $5 million in operating costs this year and minimize anticipated losses brought on by a volatile economic and regulatory environment. (bizjournals.com)
  • The same year the CEO of the state hospital which was larger than the other system and also educated most of the states doctors and many of its nurses made $600,000. (rutgers.edu)
  • CEO Thomas McAfee has been seeking a partner to help the 108-year-old hospital access capital. (emaxhealth.com)
  • Under the original legislation, 336 hospital buildings - about 40 percent of them in the Los Angeles area - deemed at greatest risk of collapse were to be strengthened by this year. (dailybulletin.com)
  • The state allowed hospitals to apply for a five-year extension, and through the Office of State Hospital Planning and Development, devised a better way to assess which buildings were most vulnerable in the event of an earthquake. (dailybulletin.com)
Doctors13
  • A hospital committee of doctors, nurses and pharmacists voted to follow her advice, despite objections from some local allergists. (latimes.com)
  • In May, Memorial barred sales reps from providing free meals to doctors and nurses on hospital grounds. (latimes.com)
  • One argument is that teaching hospitals have higher costs, because of the resources devoted to training the next generation of doctors and nurses. (courant.com)
  • The Council bill - drafted by the Hospital Council and introduced by Council member Polly Shackleton - would cover the growing number of costly machines in doctors' offices, a subject of increasing controversy all over the country. (washingtonpost.com)
  • This code will allow you to call other hospitals and doctors' offices to price the procedures. (foxbusiness.com)
  • You can get bids for these potential procedures, and choose between doctors and hospitals. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The roughly 900,000 doctors in this country are unable to compete for higher quality and lower cost services. (washingtontimes.com)
  • Teaching hospitals, where doctors are trained, often provide low- or no-cost services. (kidshealth.org)
  • Many of those involved say the impetus should come directly from hospitals and doctors. (nytimes.com)
  • Experts also warn that many of these initiatives will take time to work, especially since the more tests and procedures they do, the more money doctors and hospitals get. (nytimes.com)
  • This happened at Newport Community Hospital in northeastern Washington, where two doctors were on call 15 days a month, 24 hours a day. (csmonitor.com)
  • Here in Bonners Ferry, at the northern tip of Idaho, four doctors share emergency-room duties at the Boundary County Community Hospital. (csmonitor.com)
  • Dauner said if the initiative is approved by voters in November, hospitals would begin operating at a loss and doctors might start moving their practices out of the city. (mercurynews.com)
Organizations5
  • The proliferation of health maintenance organizations (HMOs) has very little connection with the increase in hospital consolidation. (rwjf.org)
  • He found out about WorldVistA and Vista Expertise Network, two non-profit organizations that group hundreds of programmers willing to devote some of their time to enhance VistA, and also tailor it to non-VA hospitals and clinics. (forbes.com)
  • More than a third (35 percent) of those organizations with implemented ERP systems reported having to defer maintenance and/or delayed upgrades over the past three years leaving many hospital ERPs nearly obsolete. (prnewswire.com)
  • The relation between cost-system design, managers' evaluations of the relevance and usefulness of cost data, and financial performance: an empirical study of US hospitals ," Accounting, Organizations and Society , Elsevier, vol. 31(2), pages 179-210, February. (repec.org)
  • It also analyzed drug purchase costs for 28 drugs from two major group purchasing organizations, which allow hospitals to maximize volume discounts for commonly used supplies. (canadianbusiness.com)
Results5
  • Besides Greater Southeast, the system has been introduced at about a dozen hospitals in Michigan.Administrators in three separate hospitals describe teh system and their results in enthusiastic terms when interviewed. (washingtonpost.com)
  • The results show considerable cost diversity across the five sites, but organizational leaders differ on the interpretation and action implications of the findings. (hbs.edu)
  • All costs are expressed in 2007 Canadian dollars.RESULTS: The cost of a diagnostic colonoscopy was $157 and the cost of a therapeutic colonoscopy was $199. (hindawi.com)
  • The focus is on creating better clinical results with lower-cost medications. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • Using the results from Requirement 5, calculate the cost per OR nursing hour under the vital-signs costing system. (bartleby.com)
Significantly2
  • The cost of travel insurance is significantly less than the price you would pay for a hospital visit without it. (qt.com.au)
  • Waste management - The use of oxygen in incinerators allows significantly increased flame temperatures and eventually ensures enhanced cost efficiency and incinerator production capacity. (wikipedia.org)
Taxpayers1
  • State hospitals generally operate at a loss and therefore really are not for profit, but more specifically they are public institutions backed by the taxpayers. (rutgers.edu)
Million15
  • The $2.8 million earned by the president of the largest hospital, New York-Presbyterian, wasn't the highest pay package on the list. (crainsnewyork.com)
  • Oroville Hospital is completing implementation of its EHR, a process that took three years and cost an estimated $10 million (including hardware)-probably half the price of a commercial EHR. (forbes.com)
  • Oroville Hospital received $5 million in meaningful use incentives. (forbes.com)
  • The protest and strike channeled anger that's long been bubbling among France 's nearly 1 million public hospital workers. (go.com)
  • It would cost about $22 million to $24 million, he said. (deseretnews.com)
  • It cost nearly $400 million to build that facility. (insideedition.com)
  • From the national perspective, these cases of SSI were associated with an additional 406,730 hospital-days and hospital costs exceeding $900 million. (nih.gov)
  • In 2012 the hospital's personnel costs totaled $19.39 million. (radionz.co.nz)
  • The initial construction contract was awarded in 2010 with a projected cost around $590 million. (washingtontimes.com)
  • The efforts are in very early stages, with few details on their impact outside of cost savings of a few million dollars so far. (reuters.com)
  • By collaborating with Michigan hospitals to share best practices, Blue Cross estimated it achieved savings of $233 million over three years. (nytimes.com)
  • In 2014, it was predicted 2,225 hospitals would lose roughly $227 million in withheld compensation, ranging as high as $1 million in losses to some hospitals annually. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • In one case, project managers were forced to swallow a $25 million sole-source bid from a subcontractor for an item budgeted to cost $10 million. (denverpost.com)
  • In 2003, aggregate national costs for children with a diagnosis of influenza were $76.5 million, 55% of which was among the group for whom an influenza vaccine was recommended or encouraged in 2003. (unboundmedicine.com)
  • The hospital, though profitable, faces big capital-spending needs in coming years, including an eventual overhaul or replacement of its aging facility for more than $400 million. (emaxhealth.com)
Layoffs2
  • Opponents say the initiative won't lower hospitals bills and could actually lead to hospital employee layoffs. (mercurynews.com)
  • The real reason the union is pushing the initiative is to boost membership, he said, adding that it will actually lead to hospital layoffs. (mercurynews.com)
Local hospitals1
  • Call your local hospitals and ask what kinds of mental health services they offer - and at what price. (kidshealth.org)
Study15
  • In conclusion, although a large portion of hospital orders had some defensive component, our study found that few orders were completely defensive and that physicians' attitudes about defensive medicine did not correlate with cost. (eurekalert.org)
  • In an area where there is just one owner, according to the study, hospitals charge 15 percent more than hospitals in markets where there are four or more companies. (courant.com)
  • The study says government oversight of hospital mergers should be more vigorous than it has been. (courant.com)
  • What's helped motivate hospitals to hire physicians, the study said, is that their office can be classified as an HOPD, even though it may have been the one they worked out of when they were independent. (medscape.com)
  • This study sought to determine whether a validated clinical risk score for post-operative pancreatic fistula (POPF) could predict hospital costs, payments, and profit margins. (nih.gov)
  • Reuters Health) - Kids with life-threatening illnesses who receive a special gift from the Make-a-Wish Foundation may have lower hospital costs than sick children who don't get these gifts, a U.S. study suggests. (reuters.com)
  • The study showed that the incremental costs associated with anesthesia-administered sedation, when all factors are considered, are much lower than previously believed. (hbs.edu)
  • Commenting on the study, American Hospital Association spokeswoman Marie Watteau said hospitals "have a uniform set of charges. (sify.com)
  • The University of Chicago Hospitals, the Charles E. Culpeper Foundation, the National Institute of Aging and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded the study. (uchospitals.edu)
  • A study released Tuesday by the two biggest hospital lobbying groups found that overall, hospitals' average annual inpatient drug spending increased by more than 23 per cent between 2013 and 2015. (canadianbusiness.com)
  • The NORC study for the American Hospital Association and the Federation of American Hospitals found higher prices were primarily responsible for the spending increase, not the quantity of medications used. (canadianbusiness.com)
  • One-third of hospitals in the study said drug prices had a "severe" impact on their budgets. (canadianbusiness.com)
  • The NORC study was based on data from 712 of the nation's more than 4,300 community hospitals. (canadianbusiness.com)
  • The American Hospital Association (AHA) has engaged Milliman to conduct a study of the financial impact to hospitals and health systems of dealing with all types of violence within their facilities and communities to better illustrate the enormity of violence as a public health problem. (aha.org)
  • The objective of the current study was to characterize the national burden of influenza hospitalizations and to evaluate how hospital costs and length of stay varied among children diagnosed with influenza. (unboundmedicine.com)
Budgets3
  • With drug costs threatening to consume more of their budgets, hospitals are turning to experts like Klein. (latimes.com)
  • Add to that a wave of costly new medicines that threaten to consume a greater portion of hospital budgets. (latimes.com)
  • There has been user opposition to deploying a new or upgraded ERP, perceived as carrying a high price tag in a time when clinical deployments overwhelmed hospital staff and budgets. (prnewswire.com)
Physicians13
  • About 28 percent of the orders for three services at three hospitals were judged to be at least partially defensive by the physicians who ordered them. (eurekalert.org)
  • The number of physicians employed by hospitals increased by more than 49% between 2012 and 2015. (medscape.com)
  • For example, hospital-employed physicians performed 70% of echocardiograms in HOPDs from 2012 to 2015, compared with 24% for independent physicians. (medscape.com)
  • That math yielded the extra $2.7 billion over 3 years that the employed physicians cost the program. (medscape.com)
  • The hospitals then "kick back" a large portion of the technical fee to physicians to augment their artificially low professional fees. (washingtontimes.com)
  • Independent physicians cannot compete with hospital-employed physicians. (washingtontimes.com)
  • This forces physicians to become employed by hospitals. (washingtontimes.com)
  • As hospitals absorb more physicians, they have more control over the them. (washingtontimes.com)
  • Unsurprisingly, they can pressure these physicians to do more procedures and make more hospital referrals. (washingtontimes.com)
  • The benefits of this approach are many: Market forces would be restored, physicians would start to move back into more efficient and less expensive independent practice, and overall costs would start to come down. (washingtontimes.com)
  • A lot of our hospitals are having to pay physicians to come in on weekends to relieve our physicians, who just can't take it,'' he says. (csmonitor.com)
  • Last November they gave the hospital board a month to find other physicians to take weekend emergency-room shifts. (csmonitor.com)
  • If you were in a monitored bed (telemetry or ICU or ICU-step down unit), just the hospital charge alone will generally be about $5,000-10,000/day, and this does not count medications, procedures, lab tests, physicians (usually hospitalists now days), and other misc. (rutgers.edu)
Community Hospital1
  • Orem Community Hospital and American Fork Hospital had occupancy rates of 39.7 percent and 39 percent, respectively. (deseretnews.com)
James's Hospital1
  • Their daughter, Naazish, was receiving chemotherapy and haemodialysis for lymphoma at St James's Hospital, Leeds, in October 1999. (bmj.com)
Time9
  • If public transport is unavailable or impractical (perhaps you can't get to your appointment on time or your mobility is restricted), you'll need to contact the hospital well ahead of your appointment. (nidirect.gov.uk)
  • You can claim at the hospital or clinic at the time of your appointment. (nidirect.gov.uk)
  • It forced long-time hospital administrators with tight schedules and deadlines to loosen up and collaborate with a network of free agents-open source programmers who voluntarily support a publicly available electronic health record called VistA (Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture). (forbes.com)
  • At a time when hospitals are spending millions to digitize, open source EHR software is an alternative option to costly and proprietary systems. (forbes.com)
  • INSIDE EDITION's Lisa Guerrero got an exclusive look inside central California's Coalinga State Hospital, where sex offenders who have already done their time in prison are sent because they are deemed likely to attack again are sent. (insideedition.com)
  • We used time derived activity based costing to compare the true cost of GI procedures done with gastroenterologist-administered conscious sedation versus anesthesia -administered sedation. (hbs.edu)
  • The dress Middleton wore outside the Lindo Wing of St. Mary's Hospital on Monday - a knee-length red frock with a white lace collar - is estimated to have cost upwards of several thousand dollars, according to experts who spoke with Time . (foxnews.com)
  • Other construction jobs around Denver at the time - nearby hospital construction and improvements at Denver International Airport among them - made it easy to avoid the VA work. (denverpost.com)
  • The length of time it takes to complete the work, compounded by the fact that all hospitals are in the midst of hiring contractors for this specialized work at the same time, has made planning very difficult, said Nancy Carlson, chief executive officer of Little Company of Mary Hospital in San Pedro. (dailybulletin.com)
Higher4
  • A higher percentage of kids who received "wishes" achieved health costs that were less than the experiences or gifts they got. (reuters.com)
  • But the true cost could be even higher. (bbc.com)
  • But hospital sticker prices matter only to a limited extent because they typically get trumped by a higher power: the amounts that insurance companies are willing to pay for those services. (rd.com)
  • Mean costs were higher for children with influenza and chronic diseases ($7774) compared to those for children with asthma ($3469) and children without chronic conditions ($2785). (unboundmedicine.com)
Mergers2
  • Decades ago, hospital mergers set off alarm bells. (wsj.com)
  • Mergers between large hospitals and large health plans are promising economies of scale, by stripping out unnecessary costs and getting efficiencies. (chicagobusiness.com)
University of Chicag1
  • University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, IL. (nih.gov)
Different Types of Hospitals1
  • How Has the ACA Changed Finances for Different Types of Hospitals? (urban.org)
Percent8
  • Completely defensive orders represented about 2.9 percent of costs, mostly because of additional hospital days. (eurekalert.org)
  • Profit estimates for the proposed hospital range from 22 percent to 35.6 percent in its first three years of operation. (deseretnews.com)
  • Eighty-eight percent of doctor and hospital bills are paid for today by third parties," Herrick says. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The doubts are even deeper in Illinois, where just 8 percent think their hospital costs would be lower if health systems combined. (chicagobusiness.com)
  • Likewise, the portion of employers willing to make direct contracts with hospitals for one or all services will jump from 5 percent to 24 percent. (chicagobusiness.com)
  • The Chief Executive Officer of the LBJ Hospital in American Samoa is looking at reducing personnel costs for the hospital, which accounts for more than 50 percent of LBJ's annual budget to about 28 or 29 percent. (radionz.co.nz)
  • That typically removes the financial upside for C-sections, which cost nearly 60 percent more, on average, than a regular delivery. (reuters.com)
  • In Brevard, the average hospital stay at Holmes is about 6.2 days and the occupancy level is 68.8 percent, Johnson said. (orlandosentinel.com)
Services10
  • Earlier, it emerged that a report into the runaway budget found that the design team - made up of a number of professional services firms who are responsible for the design and costings of the landmark hospital - failed to raise the alarm about the looming over-run. (independent.ie)
  • She wanted to know: What do the goods and services provided by the hospital system where she is chief executive actually cost? (nytimes.com)
  • Through Hospital Assist, we can connect you with other services to support you during each stage of your hospital journey. (medibank.com.au)
  • With your doctor's support, eligible members can choose whether a treatment is delivered in the hospital or home, with a range of services, such as rehabilitation and chemotherapy. (medibank.com.au)
  • The hospital also has facility charges, covering room and board, certain room-use fees (such as the operating room), and nursing services, all of which get consolidated into the bill sent to you and your insurance company. (rd.com)
  • To qualify for low-cost services, you may need to prove financial need. (kidshealth.org)
  • Hospitals can also be penalized for improper reporting or failing to report to CMS' Inpatient Quality Reporting Services. (beckershospitalreview.com)
  • We deliver a range of health services to support our members through a hospital admission. (medibank.com.au)
  • Government forecasts predict the growth in spending on hospital services to hover around 6% through the next decade. (plansponsor.com)
  • The downward trend in hospital services as a share of national health spending is expected to continue uninterrupted until 2012. (plansponsor.com)
Occupancy rate3
  • The hospital, at no additional cost according to administrators there, has been able to increase its occupancy rate from 88 per cent to 91 per cent. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Hospital administrators generally consider an occupancy rate of about 85 per cent to be the optimum. (washingtonpost.com)
  • Dursteler said a new hospital would have a low occupancy rate and cause UVRMC's rate to decline. (deseretnews.com)
Bills3
  • When all the numbers are crunched, the hospital-employed physician comes out ahead ― or rather, his or her employer, the actual party that bills for the service and receives the payment. (medscape.com)
  • While he was fighting the hospital was piling on the bills. (gofundme.com)
  • You probably will get more bills from many different people who might have been just said hi to you in that hospital. (rutgers.edu)

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