We measure whether expert patients – those trained as physicians and nurses – have fewer emergency department visits and the reasons for these differences. Relative to similar patients physicians and ...

Every day, the scene plays out in hospitals across America: Older men and women lie on gurneys in emergency room corridors moaning or suffering silently as harried medical staff attend to crises.

ER visits for emergency care generally have remained at 75% of expected rates among people on Medicaid, the federal/state ...

“There is precedent for state Medicaid programs attempting to either deny payment or increase copays for avoidable ED visits, ...