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New Analysis Validates Need to Preserve Restrictions on the Growth of Physician-owned Hospitals

As some members of Congress continue to propose weakening Medicare’s prohibition on physician self-referral to new physician-owned hospitals (POHs) and loosening restrictions on the growth of existing POHs, new data from Dobson | DaVanzo show that POHs report fewer quality measures and perform worse on readmission penalties compared to full-service community hospitals.

Analysis of Selected Medicare Quality Measure Reporting Data by Hospital Ownership

Dobson | DaVanzo recently examined Medicare claims data comparing demographic and clinical characteristics of facilities and patients receiving care at physician-owned hospitals (POHs) and all other acute care hospitals (non-POHs). That report showed that relative to POHs, non-POHs care for older, more medically complex patients who are on average burdened with multiple co-morbid conditions, while also operating on lower margins and providing more uncompensated and unreimbursed care.

How to Address 3 Critical Health Care Focus Areas for 2022

Service lines continue to be interrupted by COVID-19, with no end in sight. The health care workforce is stressed out and stretched thinly amid the so-called Great Resignation wave. Care delivery increasingly is being moved from hospitals to outpatient facilities and the home, thanks in part to an explosion of digital technologies.
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Comments on Changes in Quality of Care after Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

In their recent paper, Beaulieu et al. attempt to estimate the effects of hospital acquisitions on measures of hospital quality at the acquired hospitals. To do so, the authors use four measures of hospital quality and compare the changes in these measures at acquired hospitals relative to changes at a set of non-acquired “control” hospitals.
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Voices on Value: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary Witkowski and Harry Wolberg, Part 3

In part three of our series discussing Value-Based Health
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The Value Initiative Members In Action: Midland Memorial Hospital – Midland, Texas

Midland Memorial Hospital – Midland, Texas Predictive analytics creates value through nurse staffing system
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AHA Members in Action: Augusta Health – Fishersville, VA

Augusta Health dramatically improved patient outcomes and reduced readmissions with its own automated sepsis surveillance system. When a patient’s condition triggers an alert, a secure text is sent to the ED charge nurse for immediate assessment. Click here to learn more.