Policy makers who are creating initiatives to prevent the very costly and too frequent trips some patients take to the hospital may be examining a population that is actually smaller than they might ...

People who frequently seek care from hospital emergency rooms are predominately white, with health insurance and at risk for hospitalization due to serious illness. That's the finding of research in ...

The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) released a new report on so-called hospital frequent flyers – “the super-utilizers” with five or more admissions per year who account for ...