TITLE:
Improving Health Care Efficiency with Lower Cost Services
AUTHORS:
Ronald Lagoe, Emmi Lagoe
KEYWORDS:
Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Health Care Expenses
JOURNAL NAME:
Case Reports in Clinical Medicine,
Vol.8 No.8,
August
28,
2019
ABSTRACT: This study described Subacute and Complex Care Programs developed by the Syracuse hospitals to reduce the expenses of extended hospital stays. They focused on the movement of patients for services such as dialysis and complex care. These programs involved costs of approximately $7100 to $10,600 per patient compared with $12,600 to $25,000 per patient for extended stays in hospitals. The study also suggested that substantial savings were generated in the service area of the Syracuse hospitals by reducing inpatient adult medicine and adult surgery hospital rates. The annual savings for these services were substantial, $4,600,000 for 2017 when compared with 2011.