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ADVERTISING INDEX
Note: Ad page number(s) given in parentheses
3M.
www.fawfacts.com / (800) 228-3957 (pg. 59)
AAAHC.
info@aaahc.org / www.aaahc.org / (847) 853-6060 (pg. 17)
ASCOA.
development@ascoa.com / www.ascoa.com / (866) 982-7262 (pg. 7)
ASCs Inc.
jonvick@ascs-inc.com / www.ascs-inc.com / (760) 751-0250 (pgs. 12 - 13)
ASD Management.
rzasa@asdmanagement.com / www.asdmanagement.com / (626) 840-4248 (pg. 42)
Banyan Healthcare.
www.statkit.com/statkit750 / (888) 782-8548 (pg. 50)
Blue Belt Technologies, Inc.
outpatient@bluebelttech.com / www.bluebelttech.com / (763) 452-4910 (pg. 5)
Centinel Spine.
cs@centinelspine.com / www.centinelspine.com / (484) 887-8810 (pg. 40)
CollectRx.
info@collectrx.com / www.collectrx.com / (877) 230-2440 (pgs. 20 - 23)
eSutures.
info@esutures.com / www.esutures.com / (888) 416-2409 (pg. 55)
Eveia Health Consulting and Management.
ecg@ecgmc.com / www.ecgmc.com / (800) 729-7635 (pg. 38)
GE Healthcare.
www.gehealthcare.com/asc / (866) 281-7545 (pg. 19)
gMed.
www.gmed.com / (800) 577-8801 (pg. 4)
in2itive.
info@in2itive.org / www.in2itive.org / (913) 344-7837 (pg. 3)
Interventional Management Services.
info@physiciancontrol.com / www.physiciancontrol.com / (404) 920-4950 (pg. 53)
Kaye/Bassman International.
gnz@kbic.com / www.kbic.com / (972) 265-5290 (pg. 14)
Live Oak Bank.
www.liveoakbank.com / (910) 796-1674 or (910) 685-7745 or (910) 798-1215 (pg. 49)
Maquet Medical Systems, USA.
info@maquet.com / www.maquetusa.com / (888) 627-8383 (pgs. 44 - 47)
Meridian Surgical Partners.
www.meridiansurgicalpartners.com / (615) 301-8142 (pg. 41)
National Medical Billing Services.
info@nationalascbilling.com / www.nationalascbilling.com / (636) 273-6711 (pg. 11)
Navicure.
www.navicure.com / (877) 628-2873 (pg. 39)
One Medical Passport.
info@mwtcorp.com / www.onempcompany.com / (800) 540-7527 (pg. 51)
Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
www.exparel.com / (855) 793-9727 (pgs. 9 - 10)
PharMEDium.
www.pharmedium.com / (800) 523-7749 (pg. 43)
Pinnacle III.
info@pinnacleiii.com / www.pinnacleiii.com / (877) 710-3047 (pg. 41)
Source Medical Solutions, Inc.
www.sourcemed.net / (800) 719-1904 (pg. 2)
Summit Imaging.
www.summitimaging.com / (866) 578-5713 (pg. 57)
Surgical Management Professionals (SMP).
info@smpsd.com / www.smpsd.com / (605) 444-8207 (pg. 24)
Surgical Notes.
sales@surgicalnotes.com / www.surgicalnotes.com / (800) 459-5616 (pg. 15)
VMG Health.
jessican@vmghealth.com / www.vmghealth.com / (214) 369-4888 (pg. 60)
ADVERTISER
Outpatient Care Has Higher Commercial Costs
When Hospitals Employ Physicians: Study
By Laura Dyrda
H
ospital-employed physicians have higher commercial healthcare
prices than non-employed physicians, according to an article pub-
lished in the October issue of JAMA Internal Medicine.
is article is just another in a long list of articles focused on the impact of
consolidation in the industry. e researchers in this article used a regression
analysis to estimate the relationship changes in physician-hospital integra-
tion from January 2008 through December 2012 at 240 metropolitan statisti-
cal areas. ere were 7 million non-elderly patients included in the Truven
Health MarketScan Commercial Database during the study period.
ey examined the annual inpatient and outpatient spending per enrollee
and associated healthcare service use. Here are five key notes:
1. Hospital-physician integration increased by 3.3 percent on average
during the study period across the 240 metropolitan statistical areas.
ere was considerable variation in this increase across the MSAs.
2. e enrollees in areas with physician-hospital integration at the 75th
percentile of changes were associated with a $75 increase per enrollee in
annual spending from 2008 to 2012. e average outpatient spending
increased 3.1 percent to $2,407 per enrollee.
3. Price increases drove the higher outpatient spending over the four-
year time frame. ere were only minimal changes in utilization, with a
$14 corresponding change in price-standardized spending per enrollee.
4. e physician-hospital integration wasn't associated with significant
changes in inpatient spending per enrollee or utilization.
5. e researchers concluded, "Financial integration between physicians
and hospitals has been associated with higher commercial prices and
spending for outpatient care."
Ambulatory surgery centers are typically reimbursed significantly less than
hospital outpatient departments for similar outpatient procedures. n
