Cost of practice in a tertiary/quaternary referral center: Is it sustainable?

摘要: Background Third-party payers are moving toward a bundled care payment system. This means that there will need to be warranty cost of care—where the complexity and complication rates is built into payment. The theoretical benefit this system providers with lower able provide costs overall costs. may also result in referring riskier patients tertiary or quaternary referral centers. Unless model truly covers higher managing such referred cases, economic risk unsustainable for these