Hospital Charges Rise Despite Fewer Visits to Emergency Rooms December 18, 2020 By Jim Sams Auto casualty claimants are avoiding hospital emergency rooms during the COVID-19 pandemic but are generating increased hospital charges anyway, according...
Harvard/UCLA Study Questions High Costs of Hospital-Based Primary Care April 11, 2017 Patients with common conditions such as back pain, headaches and upper respiratory infections are more likely to receive tests and...
Patients’ Pre-Surgery Opioid Use Contributes to Higher Costs, Complications March 20, 2017 By Andrew G. Simpson Surgery patients often go home from the hospital with a prescription for painkillers to take as they recover. But a...
Out-of-Pocket Hospital Costs Were Rising 6.5% a Year… Before Obamacare June 28, 2016 By Amrith Ramkumar If you have private health insurance, the good news is you may be helping your employer keep its health care...
Study Finds Big Disparities in What Insurers Pay Hospitals in Same Cities September 6, 2013 Kansas City, Missouri, and Indianapolis residents with private health plans face some of the widest disparities in U.S. hospital costs,...
Hospital Charges Vary Widely, Even Within Cities: U.S. Data May 9, 2013 By David Morgan The Obama administration revealed what over 3,000 hospitals charge for common medical procedures in an early effort to challenge healthcare...
As Florida Weighs 6.1% Workers’ Comp Hike, Legislators Urged to Act October 18, 2012 By Michael Adams A proposed statewide average 6.1 percent increase in Florida’s workers’ compensation rates could spur the first major legislative changes in...
Doctors Who Own Surgery Centers Do Lots More Surgery: Study May 11, 2012 Orthopedic surgeons who own one of the growing number of ambulatory surgical centers (ASC) are doing a lot more surgery...
Hospital Pay Incentives Not Improving Patient Outcomes: Study March 29, 2012 By Lewis Krauskopf A program to pay hospitals bonuses for hitting key performance measures, or dock them if they miss, failed to improve...
Underage Drinkers Run Up $750 Million a Year in Hospital Costs February 16, 2012 Hospitalization for underage drinking is common in the United States, and it comes with a price tag — the estimated...