New York City Emergency Departments Renovate, Expand To Attract Paying Patients
Many hospitals are "aggressively marketing the virtues of their remodeled and expanded" EDs because the departments "remain vital points of entry for paying patients whose eventual admission accounts for needed revenue," according to the Times. The efforts come as New York City EDs work to deal with rising numbers of uninsured patients; rapid population growth; a shortage of primary care physicians; and President Bush's proposed cuts to Medicare and Medicaid. Many New York hospitals also are trying to deal with an influx of patients who normally would have sought care at hospitals that were closed, merged with other hospitals or will close, as recommended by a state commission in 2006 (Kershaw, New York Times, 2/12).
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