Quality and Safety
Higher out-of-pocket payments, drug costs fueling financial strain for patients, can trigger more pain, higher risk of death, ASCO says.
Researchers found physicians at hospital-based clinics are ordering excessive CT scans, MRIs, other services.
New survey is a follow-up to one published 18 months ago which showed little price transparency with the Commonwealth's hospitals.
However, overall hospital quality star ratings will not include Patient Safety Indicator results for fiscal year 2018 due to a software issue.
Doctors are reimbursed for office visits, lab work and medical procedures but not for desktop tasks.
Hospitals are increasingly driven to improve in these areas to avoid reimbursement cuts.
Healthgrades said 134,568 patient safety events could have been avoided if all hospitals performed like the winners did.
Healthgrades says it has identified the top 15 percent of facilities when it comes to patients experience. Search the list.
Lawsuit filed days after EpiPen recall for potential defect in supplier component.
Results showed helping people was a primary reason for their career choice, and 61 percent would encourage others to enter their field.