Hospital pricing behavior and patient financial risk
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Davis, Karen, 1942-
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- New York : Commonwealth Fund, [2004]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Cost of Illness Hospital Charges Financial Management, Hospital Financing, Personal Health Services Accessibility -- economics Hospital Costs
- Genre(s):
- Statistics
- Abstract:
- Hospitals play a pivotal role in making care accessible to those who cannot pay, but they also need to be financially viable. It is especially important to scrutinize hospital financing and pricing policies in the current environment. Hospital costs are accelerating. At the same time, 71 million Americans are experiencing problems paying medical bills or are paying off accrued medical debt. Access to care among the uninsured and underserved in this country is threatened, and pricing practices at selected hospitals are placing vulnerable patients at financial risk. We need major reforms to improve the performance of the health care sector.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (34 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101223490 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101223490