This Analysis in Brief updates previous research and (1) examines whether transfer patients are disproportionately sent to teaching hospitals, (2) assesses the complexity of transfer patients, and (3) determines whether teaching hospitals are sufficiently compensated for the costs they bear in treating a disproportionate share of these resource-intensive patients.
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Teaching Hospitals Provide Critical Care to Medicare Hospital Transfer Patients
July 2019 Analysis in Brief
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