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Article: Hepatology service generates substantial hospital charges.(Practice Trends)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- February 1, 2006
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SAN FRANCISCO -- For every $1 billed by the hepatology section at one institution, the hospital generated an additional $27 in charges, a retrospective study showed.
The data are the first to document why medical centers should support their hepatology sections and their hepatologists in this more consultative and less procedurally oriented specialty, Dr. Donald M. Jensen said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.
The study was prompted by Dr. Jensen's experience of having to justify budgets and salaries in his hepatology section to hospital administrators--who focused mainly on practice-generated revenue and ...