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Brief Report
Hospitalists' awareness of patient charges associated with inpatient care†
Article first published online: 9 JUN 2010
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.655
Copyright © 2010 Society of Hospital Medicine
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Graham, J. D., Potyk, D. and Raimi, E. (2010), Hospitalists' awareness of patient charges associated with inpatient care. J. Hosp. Med., 5: 295–297. doi: 10.1002/jhm.655
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Publication History
- Issue published online: 9 JUN 2010
- Article first published online: 9 JUN 2010
- Manuscript Accepted: 28 NOV 2009
- Manuscript Revised: 24 NOV 2009
- Manuscript Received: 24 JUL 2009
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Keywords:
- costs;
- hospitalists;
- inpatient care
Abstract
Hospitalists' specialized focus on inpatient care services has been conjectured to offer increased efficiency and reduce costs of inpatient care. Hospitalists' estimates of the unadjusted patient-charges generated by commonly-used services were measured. Hospitalists' agreement with one another, and accuracy relative to the actual patient-charges were both low. Hospitalists' awareness of inpatient charges appears subject to the same opacity of pricing known to limit patient knowledge, and at present hospitalists' cognizance of charges and costs is unlikely to facilitate decreased care expenditures. Journal of Hospital Medicine 2010;5:295–297. © 2010 Society of Hospital Medicine