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Furthermore, let’s get real about health care costs, which of course, is a Health Populi /THINK-Health modus vivendi. The average cost of an ambulatorycare visit is now nearly $500 , and an inpatient stay, about $22,000. Self-care is the new black, as I have written and proselytized.
consumers’ utilization of health care has been pretty stable, the type of visit encounters is shifting away from hospital inpatient cases to ambulatorycare, urgent and retail health care sites, data from Kaufman Hall and Sg2 tell us. While overall U.S.
.” McKinsey is talking about Medicare’s spending that could be shifted home in just two+ years, ranging from $180 to a quarter of a trillion dollars. There’s a convergence and blur in the center here, with primarycare and ambulatorycare getting the attention they merit as lower-cost and more appropriate sites of care.
As Mostashari said today, it is becoming increasingly clear to primarycare practices that the current system is not sustainable. Now I understand why my primarycare physician tests me annually for inflammation through a C-reactive protein (CRP) test. GLP-1’s for Chronic Kidney Disease?
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