Hospitals improve productivity but face Medicare cuts
A new study found hospital productivity increased significantly from 2002 to 2011, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The study examined hospital care for heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia. However, the authors did not look at Medicare cuts to providers that were included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The Congressional Budget Office projects the cuts will lead to $575 billion in savings by 2019.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.