San Francisco-based Moffitt-Long Hospital introduced a "managed care service" led by hospitalists who practice and teach cost-effective, evidence-based medicine. Hospitalists can significantly reduce costs and length of stay in an academic setting if they get involved early and steer the trajectory of inpatient care.
Clinicians at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have designed a clinical guideline that uses a scoring index to stratify patient risks, resulting in early discharge from the hospital for the 70% of patients found to be low risk. A more ambitious plan at Kaiser Permanente treats GI bleeding on an outpatient basis, saving an average of $990 per patient. Here are the details, plus the scoring grid.
See how two providers reengineered patient care delivery--and achieved significant reductions in health care utilization and costs as a result. Here are the findings from their pilot studies, which provide some useful.
While the majority of migraine sufferers are treated by primary care providers, headache specialists can manage migraine much more cost-effectively--in some cases up to 87% less. Here's why, along with tips for improved treatment and algorithms for treating migraine.
Reengineering patient care as needs arise is becoming easier thanks to wireless monitoring systems. Find out how several health care facilities have put an end to bottlenecks in the ED and ICU and made more efficient use of patient beds--and reaped financial savings as a result.
Reengineer information systems the right way: Integrating disparate software programs is no small feat when complex webs of systems need to be dismantled and redesigned. That's what The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston discovered when reengineering its information systems within the facilities management department. The painstaking effort has already begun paying off, with improvements in productivity and savings on inventory. Learn how M.D. Anderson expects to save more than $100,000 a year with this new system.
Data Benchmarks: Target high-volume procedures for greatest impact. A new study demonstrates the potential for cost savings and reductions in length of stay for 65 inpatient surgical procedures. The study, based on Medicare surgical data, ranks the top procedures with highest potential for savings, looks at the influence of managed care penetration in the marketplace, and offers national and regional benchmark comparisons. Here are the details and data.
Capitated provider saves more than $100,000 in first year of disease management program for cancer care: Although the actual patient numbers are low, cancer care consumes a disproportionate amount of resources. That's why this New Hampshire-based multispecialty group practice and affiliated hospital targeted cancer cases for disease management. Here are the details on how this aggressive program works, along with key areas of cancer care that reap the greatest cost efficiencies and some interesting costs data.
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