In the face of lower inpatient utilization, hospitals and health systems can drive more business to their hospitals as well as outpatient surgery centers by developing regional referral centers. These ...

A relatively recent case involving buy-in terms in an ambulatory surgery center demonstrates how different valuations for referral sources and non-referral sources can be evidence of remuneration ...

Patient safety in ambulatory care has not been routinely measured. California implemented a pay-for-performance program in safety-net hospitals that incentivized measurement and improvement in key ...

A new national program from Aetna that seeks to lower the number of out-of-network referrals for outpatient surgical procedures will actively alert both members and their doctors if they are leaving ...

We previously implemented paper-based screening for health-related social resource needs (HRSN) in our gynecologic oncology clinic and found that 36% of patients who completed the screening reported ...

A descriptive analysis of specialty referral patterns in an academic, internal medicine patient-centered medical home (PCMH). ABSTRACTObjectives: Characterize patterns of referral from a ...

Patients often self-refer to the emergency department (ED) for management of an ambulatory care–sensitive condition, and the ED may be the most appropriate care location. Objectives: To characterize ...

January 23, 2012 — Physicians were nearly twice as likely to refer their patients to a specialist in 2009 as they were 10 years earlier, but the reason for the increase in referrals is unclear, ...

Growth, Share, Opportunities & Competitive Analysis, 2025 – 2032" report has been added to the Credence Research Inc.

Many surgery centers are eventually faced with decisions about how to treat investing physicians who do not perform as many procedures in the surgery center as others. Under performing physicians can ...

Referral management schemes fail to cut down outpatient attendances and incur significant costs, a UK study has revealed. The three-year study, from April 2009 to March 2012 and published in the ...

Assessing the Landscape in Medical Education Literature in Medical Oncology: A Scoping Review We previously implemented paper-based screening for health-related social resource needs (HRSN) in our ...