Health Care Facts and Statistics Archives - Page 8 of 62

Study: Nursing Home Physician Patient Volume Not Significant Factor For Postacute Care Outcomes

September 30, 2025

A study published on August 15, 2025 on JAMA Network Open entitled “Clinician Volume and Outcomes Among Patients Admitted to Nursing Homes for Postacute Care” found that nursing home physician or advanced practitioner panel size was not associated with higher rates of rehospitalization, [...]

Diagnostic Errors In Office-Based Medical Practices

September 26, 2025

Coverys, a national leader in medical professional liability insurance, published a white paper in August 2025 entitled “Hidden In Plain Sight Exposing The Drivers Of Diagnostic Error,” the second in a three-part series, that investigated diagnostic errors or omissions during office-base[...]

National Bureau of Economic Research Finds Nursing Homes Strategically Respond To Inspections

September 22, 2025

Nursing Homes In The United States U.S. nursing homes housed more than 1.2 million patients in 2024 and incurred spending of $193 billion in 2022, which is equivalent to one-seventh of the national expenditures on the hospital sector and 4 percent of national medical spending. As baby boomers contin[...]

Study: Physicians With Higher Patient Complaints More Likely To Accept Payments From Industry

September 19, 2025

Patient Advocacy Reporting System (PARS) The Patient Advocacy Reporting System (PARS), developed at the Vanderbilt Center for Patient and Professional Advocacy, is a reporting and intervention system based on unsolicited patient complaints (UPCs). Complaints reported to the PARS include those r[...]

The Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Review For 2024

September 15, 2025

What Is A Sentinel Event? The Joint Commission defines a sentinel event as a patient safety event (not primarily related to the natural course of the patient’s illness or underlying condition) that reaches a patient and results in: Death Permanent harm (regardless of severity of harm) Sev[...]

Study: Major Underreporting Of Fall And Pressure Ulcer Injuries In U.S. Nursing Homes

September 5, 2025

The results of a study that were published in 2023 that investigated the question, “To what extent are nursing home characteristics associated with reporting rates of major injury falls and pressure ulcers on the Nursing Home Care Compare (NHCC) website?” that involved 13, 179 nursing [...]

Study Finds Delays In Nursing Home Inspections Lead To Quality Decline

August 30, 2025

In a research article published in June 2025 entitled, “Do Inspection Delays Lead to Quality Decline? Evidence from U.S. Nursing Homes,” the researchers analyzed an 8-year panel dataset from 2016 to 2024 and found: “longer delays significantly increase health deficiency citations�[...]

Federal Appellate Court Holds CVS Immune From Suit For Administration Of One Vaccine, But Not Another

August 18, 2025

At a CVS Pharmacy in 2017, Amanda Watts was given two shots, one with the Pneumovax 23 vaccine and one with the Boostrix vaccine. According to Watts, both vaccines were negligently administered, in the same improper location in her arm. Watts was eventually diagnosed with a chronic pain condition th[...]

Iowa Federal Judge Vacates 24/7 RN Rule, Nursing Home Staffing Mandate

August 9, 2025

On June 20, 2025, a federal judge in Iowa “made a final determination that CMS lacked the authority to promulgate the HPRD [hours per resident day] requirements and 24/7 RN requirement” and therefore found “that the appropriate remedy in this context is to vacate the 24/7 RN and HP[...]

UnitedHealthcare Responds To Article Claiming Payments Made To Nursing Homes To Reduce Hospital Transfers

July 25, 2025

UnitedHealthcare’s Response To May 21, 2025 Article Appearing In The Guardian [see yesterday’s Blog article]: Statement from UnitedHealthcare “The U.S. Department of Justice investigated these allegations, interviewed witnesses, and obtained thousands of documents that demonstrated[...]

The Guardian Reports That UnitedHealth Group Paid Nursing Homes To Reduce Hospital Transfers

July 24, 2025

In an article appearing in The Guardian on May 21, 2025 entitled, “Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers,” The Guardian stated: UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest healthcare conglomerate, has secretly paid nursing homes thousands in [...]

CT Scans May Account For 5% Of All New Cancer Diagnoses Annually

July 19, 2025

Approximately 93 million computed tomography (CT) examinations are performed on 62 million patients annually in the United States. CT scans expose patients to ionizing radiation at levels known to be associated with increased cancer risk. Several large retrospective cohort studies have shown that ch[...]

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