According to a release, growing complicated patient needs and payment issues are threatening “the viability of hospital-based emergency care in the United States.”
Summary of key report findings:
Patients always receive care at emergency departments, even if they can’t pay.
Emergency care challenges like “increases in demand and insufficient capacity” and “crowding, longer wait times, and violence toward ED staff.”
Data showed that physician payments are decreasing for emergency visits.
The report also includes recommendations from RAND to improve the highlighted issues.
