BLOG: Is keeping patients waiting in the ER a good business move?
Patient Access Weekly Advisor, July 30, 2008
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In this piece from the Wall Street Journal health blog, the author asks whether long emergency room waits are good for a hospital's bottom line.
The author notes that patients who show up at the emergency room are less likely than patients admitted to the hospital by a staff physician to need lucrative, procedure-driven care.
Because a hospital has only so many inpatient beds, it may make economic sense to fill the beds up with the lucrative, well-insured patients admitted by staff physicians, he says.
To read the full blog in the Wall Street Journal, click here.
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