{"title":"Rethink outpatient surgery strategy? Study finds hospitals lose money on 56 procedures.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A new study reveals hospitals are losing an average of $268 on each Medicare patient who has outpatient surgery. Losses depend on procedures, ownership structure, and how often the particular type of surgery is performed.</p>","PeriodicalId":79903,"journal":{"name":"Health care cost reengineering report","volume":"3 1","pages":"9-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Health care cost reengineering report","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A new study reveals hospitals are losing an average of $268 on each Medicare patient who has outpatient surgery. Losses depend on procedures, ownership structure, and how often the particular type of surgery is performed.