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Trend: EDs see more repeat users, elderly
Much of the discussion around health reform has touched on the problem of emergency department overuse and the high costs of this pattern to the system overall. However, the following study suggests... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: California inmate release may send indigents to hospitals
Right now, California is in the process of instituting an inmate reduction program that should release thousands of old, sick prison inmates deemed as being no further threats to society. Some... Read more...
Study: Lack of insurance plays role in mortality
Here's a study result that should add more fuel to the health reform fire on Capitol Hill: Americans who don't have health insurance are 40 percent more likely to die than those who have private... Read more...
Hospital execs sweat the details of healthcare reform
Hospital executives are sweating healthcare reform details as the deadlines for passing the massive legislative effort get closer. Arguably, hospital executives have perhaps the most to lose among... Read more...
Study: Health premiums up 95 percent since 2000
Here's a new health expense number that has a certain horror-movie quality, even to those of us who have followed the business for decades. According to a new study nonprofit advocacy group Families... Read more...
Hospital stock prices improving, but will they keep it up?
Over the past several weeks, hospital stocks have begun a rally, with investors hopeful that hospitals will be buoyed by an influx of newly-insured persons under health reform bills brewing on the... Read more...
Study: EDs, strained by recession, at a breaking point
Everyone in the healthcare business knows that the emergency department system was already under tremendous pressure before the recession hit. Now, a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation's... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: In some states, 25 percent are uninsured
As our national health debate has demonstrated, most of us realize these days that there are vast numbers of uninsured people out there. But new Census Bureau data suggests that health insurance gaps... Read more...
Pennsylvania hospitals see 7.8 percent drop in average margins
It's been a difficult fiscal year for the Pennsylvania's hospitals, whose total margins fell almost 8 percent between July 2008 and March 2009, according to new data from the Hospital & Health... Read more...
HHS: One-fifth of ED visits are by uninsured patients
Here's some data to chew on: According to HHS research, roughly one-fifth of all 120 million emergency department visits in 2006 were by uninsured persons. The data, while probably drawn on realistic... Read more...
