Toward better care and improved payment.
Current medical-business literature often suggests that the rule for hospitals' economic survival under Medicare's prospective pricing system (PPS) is delivery of minimally acceptable care. Extensive investigation of, or care for, illness not related to the primary cause of admission may erode margins or even generate losses. In at least some diagnostic groupings, however, more rather than less investigation can be not only beneficial to the patient but also fiscally advantageous to the hospital.
D002965:Classification; D015897:Comorbidity; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000191:economics*; D005376:Financial Management; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006278:Medicare / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011445:Prospective Payment System / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States