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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: i-node who wrote (24283)7/19/2012 4:01:00 PM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
I believe the industry developed primarily because Medicare is not paying docs adequately for hospital care. Most of the time they'll do better spending their time seeing patients in the office.

Billing revenues do not cover the costs of running a Hospitalist program. Hospitals add a sizable contribution per each position. However, the hospital becomes more attractive to docs who do not want to do hospital care. They also attract more admissions from various clinics and practitioners who are not part of their staff. Those clinics like the arrangement, because they will get their patients back.

Length of stay tends to be shorter, which also constitutes a competitive advantage. In the end, I guess, hospitals do come out ahead.
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