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The poll found that most workers don’t blame their companies for the escalating cost of health care. Two out of three said they were offered the best coverage the company could afford given financial circumstances. A whopping 88 percent reported a somewhat or very positive experience with their employer-provided health care plan.
The federal health care program also wants to pay less to hospitals with higher-than-average costs for patient care.
Within a few weeks of a shutdown of Medicare and Medicaid money, health care providers could be in financial trouble. No one knows how to plan for it.
Only 20 percent of people believe consumer protections will get better under the law.
Starting in October 2013, Medicare’s ASCs payments would be affected by how they score on these measures. The initial quality measures that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed earlier this month for evaluating individual ASCs include:
In the study, James Robinson, a professor of health economics at the University of California, Berkeley, compared the profit margins of 61 hospitals on seven types of common operations, including knee replacements, spine fusions and hip replacements. Robinson then broke the results down for hospitals in concentrated markets and those facing more competition.
Although the benefit is intended for patients who have no more than six months to live, 19 percent now receive hospice services for longer.
Many hospitals are performing unusually large numbers of a type of CT scan experts say should be done sparingly.
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