Hospitals and Health Systems
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Regulating Out-Of-Network Hospital Emergency Prices: Problem And Potential Benchmarks
Melnick focuses on the need and options to regulate hospital out-of-network emergency prices. Using data from California, he analyzes potential benchmarks for setting these prices.
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Rubber Meeting the Road: Access to Comprehensive Stroke Care in the Face of Traffic
The researchers analyzed how long it took Los Angeles County emergency medical services to transport patients to CSCs, and found that traffic conditions affect consistent access, particularly in socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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National Trends in Mental Health-Related Emergency Department Visits by Children and Adults, 2009–2015
Utilization of emergency department services for mental health-related visits can be challenging for hospitals to manage. This study showed mental health-related visits grew by 56 percent for pediatric patients and by almost 41 percent for adults.
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What the Trump Administration Gets Right About Hospital Price Transparency
Would you buy a pair of shoes without knowing the price? Consumers have bought medical care from hospitals for years without knowing the costs, but new regulations will change that.
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Hospital System Participation and Hospital Spending
Most hospital systems span across markets and states with higher system participation were more likely to have below median per capita hospital spending.
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Prescription Opioid Use in General and Pediatric Emergency Departments
Children, adolescents, and young adults treated in pediatric emergency departments are much less likely to be prescribed opioids compared to patients of similar age and ailment treated at general EDs.
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Trends in the Use of Skilled Nursing Facility and Home Health Care Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis
Hospitals might be shifting to more intensive post-acute care to avoid readmissions among seniors with pneumonia. At the same time, penalized hospitals’ efforts to prevent readmissions may be keeping higher proportions of their patients in the community.
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What is Surprise Billing?
Experts from the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy answer commonly asked questions about surprise medical bills and how to deal with them at a policy level.
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We Need More Primary Care Physicians: Here’s Why and How
USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative researchers explain why we need more primary care physicians and how to close the gap between primary care and specialty medicine.
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Do Lower Readmissions at Penalized Hospitals Signify an Effective Policy or Simply a Statistical Anomaly?
A new analysis finds at least three quarters of the improvement in readmission rates by hospitals who had poor baseline performance was due to regression to the mean (i.e. statistical luck) rather than the policy.
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