Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Relationship Between Occurrence of Surgical Complications and Hospital Finances

We can probably make the same assumption for stroke patients. There is no incentive to reduce stroke disability during the neuronal cascade of death because that would reduce the need for all those billable hours for speech, OT, PT and the many neurologist consults that are worthless. Fee for service will never lead to innovation. Fee for results might do that, at least it would be more likely to be beneficial to patients.
Abstract here;
 http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1679400
Dr. John M discussing it in a blog post about his speciality, Atrial fibrulation.

New post up on theHeart.org: Fee-for-service, AF treatment and the untangling of knots…

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