Doctor and Patient: The Costs of Emergency Room Cost-Cutting

Proposals to cut health care costs often focus on emergency rooms, including not paying for patients who visit them with non-urgent problems like heartburn or an insect bite. But basing reimbursement on discharge diagnoses is a bad idea, a new study found.

Source: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/28/the-costs-of-emergency-room-cost-cutting/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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