Search results for "Hospital Ownership"
January 3, 2024
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/03/
Nonprofit hospitals spent less on charity care than for-profit and government hospitals
For every $100 of expense incurred in 2018, nonprofit hospitals spent less on charity care ($2.30) than for-profit hospitals ($3.80) and government hospitals ($4.10), according to an analysis of 4,666 Medicare-certified general acute care hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/14/2.htm
14 Apr 2021
Private equity takeovers linked with more in-hospital adverse events in Medicare patients
Rates of falls and central-line bloodstream infections increased in hospitals after they were acquired by private equity firms, despite these hospitals having a younger, higher-income patient cohort.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/03/private-equity-takeovers-linked-with-more-in-hospital-adverse-events-in-medicare-patients.htm
3 Jan 2024
Inpatient care experience improved in many areas, survey finds
Inpatient care experience improved in many areas, survey findsExpert consensus says PPIs, antiplatelets can be used together
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2010/11/10/1.htm
10 Nov 2010
Private equity and hospitals
Experts and research look at effects of health care investing.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/private-equity-and-hospitals.htm
15 Dec 2020
Study finds low adherence to price transparency mandate across U.S. hospitals
As of Jan. 1, 2021, a federal rule requires hospitals to disclose five types of standard charges for all services and to provide a consumer-friendly display for at least 300 services. Six to nine months after it went into effect, more than half of hospitals had met neither requirement.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/15/study-finds-low-adherence-to-price-transparency-mandate-across-us-hospitals.htm
15 Jun 2022