Health care reform is having a significant impact on entities throughout central Pennsylvania according to a recent article in the Central Penn Business Journal.
The article examines the impact of reform from several perspectives, including those of businesses, employers, insurers, providers, benefit brokers, and lawyers. Read about it in greater detail in this Central Penn Business Journal article
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The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) has issued a new report on hospital readmissions.
Health care reform efforts at both the state and federal levels have targeted avoidable hospital readmissions as major causes of rising health care costs. In issuing the report, PHC4 notes that not all readmissions are preventable.
Preventing readmissions is a particular challenge for Pennsylvania safety-net hospitals because of the difficulties many low-income patients have complying with their post-discharge medical instructions.
Read more about the report and download Hospital Readmissions in Pennsylvania 2010 here
, on the PHC4 web site.