Koska M T
Hospitals. 1990 Feb 5;64(3):44, 46-8.
The Prudential Insurance Company's plan to shuttle patients needing high-tech care to designated Institutes of Quality was announced with great fanfare and has been under way for more than a year now. Yet the prestige of the designation has been greater than any increases in patient volume for all but a few hospitals involved in the program. Still, according to Prudential, the program has saved the Newark-based company close to $1 million.
保诚保险公司将需要高科技护理的患者送往指定的优质医疗机构的计划在大肆宣传中宣布,目前已经实施了一年多。然而,对于该项目涉及的除少数几家医院外的所有医院而言,指定的声誉比患者数量的任何增加都更为显著。尽管如此,据保诚称,该项目已为这家总部位于纽瓦克的公司节省了近100万美元。