Quality and Safety
Low early testing levels and poor access to care among disadvantaged populations is driving up the expense.
Top earner Palm Beach Accountable Care Organization saved Medicare $62 million, earning $30 million for the ACO.
Report argues hospitals must prepare protocols for dealing with ICE enforcement, ensure safe place for immigrants seeking care.
The new program aims to streamline quality measures providers are required to meet, rewarding outcomes rather than micromanaging processes.
AHA says $1.1 billion from that total goes to support violence prevention and preparedness programs.
Prosecutors said 76 people died, more than 750 sickened from tainted injections after co-owner, pharmacist ignored unsanitary conditions.
Patients who report more intense and numerous physical and psychological symptoms see longer, and often unplanned, hospital stays.
The research is the first large-scale national study to link nurses' well-being to self-reported medical errors.
Emergency room overcrowding is caused by lack of access to care, and the focus should be there, ACEP says.
Medicaid expansion in the Affordable Care Act turned Medicaid into a lifelong program for people it was never meant to support, Verma says.