High-quality primary care is the foundation of a high-functioning health care system. It ensures patients have access to essential services, prevents emergency department visits and hospital admissions, leads to better health outcomes, and improves quality of care and equity. The secret sauce that allows high-quality primary care to deliver on all these benefits is long-term relationships between patients...
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Health care costs add up in months after COVID-19 hospital stay, study finds
MICHIGAN MEDICINE – UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Millions of Americans have needed hospitalization for COVID-19 since the pandemic began, including hundreds of thousands in the recent Omicron surge. And on top of the bills for their hospital care, a new study suggests that many of them could face hundreds or thousands of dollars in costs after they...