Hospital versus private practice

Comparison of Outpatient Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in a Private Nonteaching Hospital versus a Private Teaching Community Hospital

The development of laparoscopic cholecystectomy has allowed the introduction of outpatient surgery for biliary tract disease. However, there appears to be a wide variation of the interpretation of "outpatient surgery," ranging from discharge the same day to keeping patients for overnight observation. We prospectively reviewed the last 50 chole-cystectomies performed at Spartanburg Regional Medi...

A comparison of hospital outpatient departments and private practice

This article addresses cost differences between primary care physicians in private practice and hospital outpatient departments (OPD's). The analysis utilizes ambulatory visit groups (AVG's), the outpatient equivalent of diagnosis-related groups (DRG's), to adjust for case mix. Major findings are that OPD's have higher per visit costs than physicians' private offices; internists are more expens...

Case-Mix Differences Between Hospital Outpatient Departments and Private Practice

The belief that patients seen in hospital outpatient departments are sicker than those patients seen by private practice physicians is examined in this article. A large scale data set developed by Robert Mendenhall at the University of Southern California and modeled on the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) is used for secondary analysis. Differences in case-mix complexity were fo...

Impact of Private Health Insurance on the Choice of Public versus Private Hospital Services

American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Hospital Care: Relationship between hospital-based and private practice physicians.

For a number of reasons, hospitals appoint fulltime and part-time physicians to practice medicine within the hospital or its outlying divisions. Such physicians provide a wide variety of primary, specialty, and subspecialty services. Among other advantages for hospitals are a potentially tighter rein on quality control and an increased bed occupancy and revenue at a time when financial issues h...