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A concierge ER, or, can EMTALA-free, cash-only emergency departments save hospitals?

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Given the financial trouble many ERs and hospitals are facing, concierge emergency care may be on the horizon.

Richard Winters (via GruntDoc) imagines such as scenario, which for a fee, patients receive private rooms, couches and chairs for family, private telephones and internet service, flat-screen television, and events to meet the hospital administration and physicians.

As long as every cent continues to be squeezed out of (more…)


January 31st, 2009 |

Tags: cash, concierge, departments, emergency, EMTALA, Free, hospitals, only, save




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