Q Corp Compares Cost of Care at the Local, National Level
A method to assess Cost of Care for commercially insured Oregonians has been successfully tested and implemented with Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Q Corp).
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A method to assess Cost of Care for commercially insured Oregonians has been successfully tested and implemented with Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Q Corp).
The study found that total patient service expenditures decreased by 4.2 percent per person or approximately $41 per quarter (about $13.50 per person each month) between 2012 and 2014.
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Results of a two-year study are in, and the prognosis is good news for the Patient-Centered Primary Care Home (PCPCH) program.
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Shocked by the high price of a CT scan at St. Luke’s Hospital in Boise, a patient called around to local imaging centers and discovered that the rates were considerably less for the same procedure.
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Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland topped the charts, doubling its daily pharmacy patient charges for Major Joint Replacement and Reattachment (MS-DRG 470) procedures between 2014 and 2015.
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The cost of common outpatient surgeries performed at ambulatory surgery centers in Oregon vary dramatically – in some cases a range of three to six times higher than the lowest cost for the procedure.
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A lifesaving opioid overdose antidote used effectively for substance abuse - Naloxone Hydrochloride - has skyrocketed in the past couple years, worrying state health advocates across the U.S. with Oregon among them.
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Hospital Pricing Specialists compared patient claims data for head and brain CT scans (CPT 70450) at Oregon’s hospitals, doctor’s offices, and testing centers finding some extreme contrasts.
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In a recent study titled: Prices for Common Medical Services Vary Substantially Among the Commercially Insured, David Newman, executive director of the Health Care Cost Institute, along with several other authors compared costs of basic medical services across the country (looking at commercial h
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Hospital Pricing Specialists recently completed a national study analyzing the costs of more than 18.7 million chest x-ray claims across the country, and found prices in hospitals were in many cases 3-10 times more expensive than those performed in physician office settings.