Hospital Medicine and the Health Care Crisis

Today's Hospitalist published an article on Hospital Physicians and management of their flat reimbursement from the CMS.

The article highlighted the following:

Medicare:

• Out-of-Pocket Increased 64% from 1997-2005
• One-quarter of people on Medicare spend 31% of their income on health care
• Analysis says Aging  will be responsible for 37% increased spending by 2035
• 46% of projected spending was attributed to "excess cost growth"

Hospital Care:

• Americans spent $2.6 trillion on health care in 2010
• Hospital care accounted for $814 billion (not including physician fees)
• Medicare and other fees accounted for 

Solution: 

• Control costs
• HCAHPS - Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems
  

To view the full article, please click the following link: Disappearing Dollars? Hospital Medicine and the Health Care Crisis

For additional billing and coding resources, please click this link: Medical Reimbursement Billing and Coding Resources