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Identifying Potentially Preventable Readmissions Obeys Willie Sutton's Law--Go where the money is!Abstract"Efforts are under way nationally to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions by changing payments to hospitals, but it is unclear how well or how quickly these policy changes will produce widespread reductions in hospital readmissions.
Increasingly, the cost of care is unnecessarily dear, rising exponentially while the return on investment is falling precipitously. What can be done about improving the value of health care?
Witness the outrageous 20-30% administrative overhead of medical insurance companies.... That includes a covert and obnoxious 'cost-savings-is-more-important-than-patient-care' reward system. This is even true for non-profits. It's the difference between medical business and the business of medicine—taking care of patients or profit$.
The majority of physicians welcome comparative effectiveness research (CER), especially if it helps them help patients
Dr. Atul Gawande's "Cost Conundrum" (New Yorker, June 1, 2009), is arguably, "one of the most influential health care stories in recent memory"; it helps us better see a already palpable problem and gives us pause, if not agita... . "Our country’s health care is by far the most expensive in the world. In Washington, the aim of health-care reform is not just to extend medical coverage to everybody but also to bring costs under control.