{"id":24608,"date":"2025-07-08T09:32:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24608"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:32:08","slug":"these-1-of-patients-cost-hospitals-800m-annually-5-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24608","title":{"rendered":"These 1% of patients cost hospitals $800M annually: 5 notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By: Mariah Taylor for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers found about 1% to 2% of all inpatient hospitalizations resulted in patients discharging against medical advice \u2014 and these patients led to more than $800 million in annual associated healthcare costs.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/quality\/patient-safety-outcomes\/these-1-of-patients-cost-hospitals-800m-annually-5-notes\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/quality\/patient-safety-outcomes\/these-1-of-patients-cost-hospitals-800m-annually-5-notes\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7924\" style=\"width:153px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/dreamstime_m_33628218health-care-medical-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By: Mariah Taylor for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Columbus-based Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and James Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[385,238],"class_list":["post-24608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24609,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24608\/revisions\/24609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}