Acute Care
30 percent of all health spending, $750 billion, is wasted on fraud, administration and needless procedures, estimate says.
As many as 1.4 million seniors survive a stay in the ICU every year; most go home, with varying degrees of disability.
New research shows race and geography prevent some of the most vulnerable from obtaining effective treatments, including powerful anti-coagulant that can break up the clot causing the stroke.
Talks between Allina Health negotiators and the Minnesota Nurses Association team broke off on September 3rd when the hospital team left the table, according to a statement by the nurses union.
Almost $1,000 per procedure examined at the academic medical center, UCSF researchers find.
Across the board, hospitals earned more if they were in a state where more people had coverage and saw declines in the level of uncompensated care.
Leaders from the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Energy and Commerce said healthcare providers need more time.
Nearly 20 percent of Medicare patients return to the hospital within 30 days, costing more than $26 billion annually, federal data shows.
Researchers have found that hospitals with the highest rates of readmission were actually more likely to show better mortality scores in patients treated for heart failure, COPD and stroke.
Research suggests that "implicit bias" -- doctors and nurses subtly or subconsciously treating some patients differently than others -- or patients' perception of it could have consequences for people's health.