JAMA: Lower cost hospitals have similar patient outcomes as higher cost counterparts
Dive Brief: A new study in JAMA Network Open finds that Medicare patients with heart failure or pneumonia likely had more costs associated with the hospital where they were receiving treatment than their acuity. The researchers randomly studied 1.22 million patients discharged between July 2013 and June 2016, and further isolated them to 1,615 patient… Read More: JAMA: Lower cost hospitals have similar patient outcomes as higher… »