The Financial Impact of a Partnership Between an Academic Medical Center and a Free Clinic.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The objective of this study is to examine the association between an academic medical center and free clinic referral partnership and subsequent hospital utilization and costs for uninsured patients discharged from the academic medical center's emergency department (ED) or inpatient hospital.

Methods

This retrospective, cross-sectional study included 6014 uninsured patients age 18 and older who were discharged from the academic medical center's ED or inpatient hospital between July 2016 and June 2017 and were followed for 90 days in the organization's electronic medical record to identify the occurrence and cost of subsequent same-hospital ED visits and hospital admissions. The occurrence of any subsequent ED visits or hospital admissions and the cost of subsequent h

SUBMITTER: Wallace S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9172267 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature