Access, quality, and costs of care at physician owned hospitals in the United States: observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare physician owned hospitals (POHs) with non-POHs on metrics around patient populations, quality of care, costs, and payments.

Design

Observational study.

Setting

Acute care hospitals in 95 hospital referral regions in the United States, 2010.

Participants

2186 US acute care hospitals (219 POHs and 1967 non-POHs).

Main outcome measures

Proportions of patients using Medicaid and those from ethnic and racial minority groups; hospital performance on patient experience metrics, care processes, risk adjusted 30 day mortality, and readmission rates; costs of care; care payments; and Medicare market share.

Results

The 219 POHs were more often small (<100 beds), for profit, and in urban areas. 120 of these POHs were general (non-specialt

SUBMITTER: Blumenthal DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4558297 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature