Your Messages Inbox
Most Viewed Abstracts
1. Report Shows Shift in Starting Salaries for Physicians 2. 2008 Exclusive Survey—Earnings: Good news for primary care income 3. Medicare pay-for-reporting effort draws fire from frustrated doctors 4. Debunking Myths in the US Healthcare System 5. Doctors and the DEA Free full text
Your Article Summary
See Latest ArticlesFacility fees added to patient bills have some crying foul
American Medical News , 08/12/09
Elliott VS – The news that the Cleveland Clinic started billing patients facility fees for visiting physicians at some outpatient offices as of March 1 stirred up shock waves. At a time when health care costs are increasing and many families are under economic strain, this practice may increase out–of–pocket costs that patients see only when they get the bill.
Related Articles
Women’s preferences for obstetric care in rural Ethiopia: a population-based discrete choice experiment in a region with low rates of facility delivery
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 11/02/09
Relevance Score: 45%
How Work Context Affects Operating Room Processes: Using Data Mining and Computer Simulation to Analyze Facility and Process Design
Quality Management in Health Care, 10/30/09
Relevance Score: 42%
A community-based targeting approach to exempt the worst-off from user fees in Burkina Faso
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 10/29/09
Relevance Score: 42%
Estimation of potential effects of improved community-based drug provision, to augment health-facility strengthening, on maternal mortality due to post-partum haemorrhage and sepsis in sub-Saharan Africa: an equity-effectiveness model
The Lancet, 10/26/09
Relevance Score: 42%
St. anthony hospital selects toshiba mr system to fulfill mr diagnostic capabilities at new facility
Imaging Economics, 10/21/09
Relevance Score: 42%
Today in Economics of Medicine...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Community safety net
American Hospital Association News, 12/14/09
Cash flow squeeze: 2012 IRS rule will withhold some Medicare pay
American Medical News , 12/11/09
Medicaid would cover 15 million more people under health reform bills
American Medical News , 12/10/09
Article Search
Sponsor