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NewsHospitalized homeless patients may incur higher costs
Homeless individuals, when hospitalized, may cost on average $2,500 more per stay than other patients because of seriously related health conditions and longer lengths of stay, Canadian researchers Read more...
Healthcare use, costs higher for ER patients with adverse drug events
Emergency room patients who show up with adverse drug events use more services and are more expensive than ER patients who present for other reasons, according to a study published Friday in the Read more...
Hospital must slash budget by $3 million
The biggest challenge for Tucson Medical Center is to cut the costs of care, President and CEO Judy Rich told Kaiser Health News. One big reason for the belt-tightening will be the 1.3 percent Read more...
Three steps to improving medication adherence, reducing costly hospital stays
Up to half of all patients fail to take their medications faithfully as prescribed, compromising their health and costing the healthcare system $100 billion in preventable hospital stays per year, Read more...
California hospitals overbilled insurers to make up for lost profits, analysis concludes
California hospitals hospitals charged insurers 53 percent more than the cost of services they provided, according to an analysis of financial information from 300 hospitals between September 2008 Read more...
Skyrocketing: Hospital costs 55 percent higher in Mass., than national average
Hospital costs throughout the U.S. are constantly on the rise, but nowhere more so than in Massachusetts, where they rose to more than 55 percent above the national average in 2007. The culprit? A Read more...
Hospital CEOs: Reform savings goals doable with lean, Six Sigma, Toyota methods
Looked at from one perspective, the $155 billion cost-savings goals President Obama has set for already-struggling hospitals are pretty darned intimidating. By one estimate, every U.S. hospital will Read more...
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