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Hospitalists' awareness of patient charges associated with inpatient care

✍ Scribed by Jeremy D Graham; Darryl Potyk; Elise Raimi

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Weight
161 KB
Volume
5
Category
Article
ISSN
1553-5592

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✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Hospitalists' specialized focus on inpatient care services has been conjectured to offer increased efficiency and reduce costs of inpatient care. Hospitalists' estimates of the unadjusted patient‐charges generated by commonly‐used services were measured. Hospitalists' agreement with one another, and accuracy relative to the actual patient‐charges were both low. Hospitalists' awareness of inpatient charges appears subject to the same opacity of pricing known to limit patient knowledge, and at present hospitalists' cognizance of charges and costs is unlikely to facilitate decreased care expenditures. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2010;5:295–297. Β© 2010 Society of Hospital Medicine

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