Compared with estimated costs of $ 423 per
emergency outpatient visit and $ 3,722 per hospital night cited by this study, the Durham Connects program costs $ 700 per family.
Not exact matches
The 950 - bed medical center each year admits approximately 48,500 inpatients, handles more than 1.5 million
visits to its extensive
outpatient programs at the main campus and four health centers, and records more than 95,500
emergency visits.
Infant health status was ascertained by inquiring about symptoms during the past week (fever, cough, wheezing, trouble breathing, trouble sleeping, stuffy nose, spitting up, diarrhea, or vomiting) and reasons for any
outpatient medical
visit in the previous month, including
visits to a physician's office,
emergency department, or clinic.
The program provides comprehensive health care coverage for children, including coverage for routine checkups, immunizations, doctor
visits, prescriptions, dental and vision care, inpatient and
outpatient hospital care, laboratory and x-ray services and
emergency services.
The program provides comprehensive health care coverage for children, including coverage for routine checkups, immunizations, doctor
visits, prescriptions, dental and vision care, inpatient and
outpatient hospital care, laboratory and x-ray services and
emergency services, says Cuomo.
The costs in 2012 U.S. dollars included the therapy,
outpatient services, hospitalization,
emergency department
visits, pharmacy services and nonmedical services, as well as indirect costs such as losses in worker productivity.
Out - of - pocket medical expenses, inpatient and
outpatient care,
emergency room
visits and prescription drugs all contribute to the added health care expenditures, with inpatient prescriptions contributing the most, An said.
Depression generates more than 8 million
visits to physician offices, hospital
outpatient and
emergency departments, and nearly 400,000 in - patient stays, which average 6.5 days.
Of that, $ 1,830 was for prescriptions, $ 640 for office
visits, $ 529 for hospitalizations, $ 176 for hospital
outpatient visits and $ 105 for
emergency room care.
Caregivers estimated that hospitalizations accounted for the largest proportion of direct medical costs ($ 1.9 billion), followed by
outpatient visits to allergists ($ 819 million),
emergency department
visits ($ 764 million) and pediatrician
visits ($ 543 million).
Hersh, Andrew T. Pavia, M.D., also an infectious disease expert and professor of pediatrics at the University of Utah, Lauri A. Hicks, D.O., a medical epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and University of California, San Francisco, medical student Daniel J. Shapiro, conducted the study using a public database with information on ambulatory care
visits at physician offices and hospital - based
outpatient and
emergency departments nationwide.
Extrapolated to the birth cohort in the USA (~ 4 million births), the yearly reduction in hospitalization burden for respiratory infection and diarrhea is ~ 86,000 and for pediatric
outpatient emergency visits it is ~ 82,500 episodes (reducing altogether ~ 168,000 hospital
visits yearly).
In 2003 the city's public hospitals handled nearly one million health
emergencies, and about 5 million walk - in
visits to
outpatient and community - based clinics, and in - patient care for approximately 210,000 people.
This represents costs over and above those experienced by a person who does not have a disability and does not include other expenses such as
emergency room and
outpatient hospital
visits, residential care and out - of - pocket family expenses.
Hunterdon Medical Center treats over 8,600 inpatients annually, with 33,000
Emergency Department
visits and over 292,000
outpatient visits per year.
The types of mental health services captured include: mental health day programmes, psychiatric
outpatients and outreach services (eg, home
visits); hospital - based consultation - liaison services to admitted patients in non-psychiatric and hospital
emergency settings; same - day admitted non-procedural care; care provided by community workers to admitted patients and clients in staffed community residential settings; and mental health promotion and prevention services.