Group purchasing organizations were examined by the Government Accounting Office to determine if hospitals report fee rebates appropriately.
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Research published in the American Journal of Managed Care again demonstrates that private insurers pay a lot more for hospital inpatient services than do Medicare or Medicaid.
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According to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that converting a hospital to for-profit status did not affect quality measures and financial margins improved.
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Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms that when hospitals own physician practices, outrageously higher total health spending per patients results, as much as 20%.
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In the latest of a long string of misleading studies, an article in Health Affairs compares hospital administrative costs in 8 countries, including the United States.
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Non-profit hospital CEOs and other executives received very high compensation increases on average this year, far outpacing wage growth for ordinary workers.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140809/MAGAZINE/308099987/1135&utm_source=AltURL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=am&AllowView=VXQ0UnpwZTVBdlNYL1I3TkErT1lBajNja0U4VUF1WlVFQk1JQXc9PQ==?mhResearch published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that the hospital pay-for-performance program adopted in England did not lead to sustained improvement in mortality rates.
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An Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality Statistical Brief gives us data on inpatient hospital costs and utilization from 2003 and 2013 and a projection about the future.
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Research published in Health Affairs, based on data from Denmark, finds that hospital occupancy rates above 85% are associated with worsening mortality, as is being admitted outside of normal business hours or on weekends. It is not clear, however, that there is a causative effect. It would seem more likely that there would be one in the case of admissions outside normal hours, but high occupancy rates seem less likely to be causative of greater mortality.
http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/33/7/1236.abstractIn the we are being told what we already know, but when are we going to do something about it department, a report from NIHCR finds that hospital outpatient departments…
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A Modern Healthcare analysis of 200 health system financial reports finds a significant narrowing of margins in the last year.
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140621/MAGAZINE/306219968&utm_source=AltURL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=am?AllowView=VXQ0UnpwZTVEUGFmL1I3TkErT1lBajNja0U4VURPUmNFQk1HREE9PQ==&mhA study published in Health Affairs examines the effects of the recession on hospital finances, finding that the weak stayed weak but largely survived.
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Premier, the large hospital group purchasing company, issued results from a survey of hospital leaders, showing the 40% are dissatisfied with their EHR, but they expect HIT to be the area with their largest capital expenditures. These leaders said the biggest drivers of health care costs are labor costs and legislative and regulatory requirements.
https://www.premierinc.com/wps/wcm/connect/ed2fbb69-ac0d-480c-a663-16619d116d3c/Spring-2014-EO-C-suite-Survey-Whitepaper.pdf?MOD=AJPERESA report from ReviveHealth gives the results of its 8th annual survey of hospital systems regarding their perceptions of payers, which as expected, aren't great.
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The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements through Roche Consulting, LLC and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.
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