lunedì 23 luglio 2018

RESEARCHERS FIND THAT PRIVATE INSURANCE PAYS MORE FOR EMERGENCY DEPARTEMENT VISITS

Medical Xpress - Researchers at the University of North Carolina found that, over the past 20 years, private insurers have paid more for a visit to the emergency department than Medicare or Medicaid. For this work, titled "Per-visit Emergency Department Expenditures by Insurance 1996-2015"and published in the July edition of Health Affairs, UNC Family Medicine fellow Jonathan Yun, MD, MPH, and two other researchers, used data from the 1996 through 2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to study charge and payment trends for ED visits paid by Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurance. In 2016, the average annual costs per person for health care in the United States was $10,345, more than...>>>

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