Paying Hospitals To Keep People Out Of Hospitals? It Works In Maryland.

(By Jay Hancock for Kaiser Health News)

Saturdays at Mercy Medical Center used to be perversely lucrative. The dialysis clinic across the street was closed on weekends.

That meant the downtown Baltimore hospital would see patients with failing kidneys who should have gone to the dialysis center. So Mercy admitted them, collecting as much as $30,000 for treatment that typically costs hundreds of dollars. Continue reading article here…

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