Becker's Healthcare April 20, 2016
From patient to consumer, from acute care to population health, from fee-for-service to fee-for-value — the past decade has flipped healthcare on its head. So what’s next? Flipping hospitals on their heads to ensure they stay alive. Illustrative of such change is data from the MedPACanalysis, which showed inpatient volume was down by six percent from 2010 to 2013, while outpatient services have been steadily on the rise (30 percent) for the past 13 years. In Illinois for instance, a huge percentage of the state’s 32,000+ hospital beds routinely go empty — with an occupancy rate of less than 60%.
This doesn’t imply that fewer patients need care — instead, it’s evidence that these patients are going elsewhere. While this...
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