Repeat patients to the emergency room are costing millions:
One Camden resident was admitted 113 times in one year, Brenner found. Another was admitted 324 times over the five-year period. The most expensive patient cost $3.5 million over five years. Overall, the city’s three hospitals were paid $46 million to care for these top users, most of it from government insurance and New Jersey charity care.
(via GruntDoc)
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I am glad someone is starting to look at this. I have seen estimates that 1% of the population consumes as much as 50% of entire health care expenditures.
We are killing herd to save the crippled and self destructive.
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