The most expensive hospitals were ineffective

American researchers found that the most expensive hospitals in the country are far from the most effective. On the contrary, patients entering are more common complications and are forced to be treated over and over again. This is stated in a new study published in Jama Surgical Magazine.

Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles examined the data of almost two thousand US hospitals in 2022, where four types of large plan operations were carried out. It turned out that approximately 10% of them belonged to “high margins ında, 17 times higher than real treatment costs. For comparison: In most other clinics, this indicator is about three floors.

Interestingly, the high price is not related to quality in any way. “Patients in the highest margin hospitals face more common complications and repetitive hospitalization,” he said. Authorized, such institutions often belong to private investors, are in big cities and show the worst improvement, he added.

In the case of the researcher, there were 196 high margins. More than 42 thousand patients were treated. These people have a risk of complications: the heart, infectious, respiratory or kidney was 45% higher, and the chances of hospitalization in a repeated hospital within a month after the operation was 33% higher.

The study also has a worrying tendency: Patients rarely know how much they need to pay for treatment. According to Sakovitz, it is impossible to talk about a “reasonable özel choice in the absence of transparency and emergency situations. Stressed the need to create a system where a standard and understandable reporting is available on prices and treatment results.

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