The Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4) is committed to ensuring better outcomes for all Pennsylvanians and has collaborated with the Pennsylvania Rare Disease Advisory Council (PARDAC) to bring a new resource to stakeholders invested in rare disease care in Pennsylvania.
PHC4’s Special Report on the Financial Health of Pennsylvania Rural Hospitals, Fiscal Year 2023, displays data for general acute care hospitals (GAC hospitals) located in rural counties, as defined by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. Those hospitals fitting this definition within PHC4’s Financial Analysis 2023 Volume One report are included in this new resource.
PHC4 has created a survey to understand the prevalence and gain insight on non-compete agreements impacting health care professionals in PA. The organization plans to use the findings to inform a broader effort; the study of the impact of Act 74,Fair Contracting for Health Care Practitioners Act on the Commonwealth.
PHC4 releases its January 2025 Newsletter.
PHC4 publicly released new County-Level Utilization and Condition-Specific Reports today, giving stakeholders in Pennsylvania valuable insight into ambulatory/outpatient usage and hospitalization rates of high interest conditions, using the most recent data available.
The 2023 Hospital Performance Report (HPR), produced by PHC4, provides information about the performance of Pennsylvania hospitals for 17 common medical conditions.
PHC4 releases Financial Analysis – Volume Three today. The final volume of a three-part series of reports published annually by PHC4, Financial Analysis – Volume Three displays financial information during fiscal year 2023 (FY23) pertaining to non-GAC hospitalsin Pennsylvania. These include rehabilitation, psychiatric, long-term acute care, and specialty hospitals.
PHC4 releases its October 2024 Newsletter.
PHC4 published a new set of County-Level Utilization Reports today, which display the overall total number of inpatient hospitalizations and ambulatory/outpatient cases for Pennsylvania residents.
The Common Procedures Report displays hospital-specific outcomes, ratings for complications and extended postoperative length of stay (i.e., how long a patient stays in the hospital after surgery), and average hospital charges as well as inpatient and outpatient volume, for three orthopedic procedure groups: spinal fusion, total hip replacement, and total knee replacement. This report includes inpatient acute care hospital discharges, as well as hospital outpatient department and ambulatory surgery center encounters, from October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023.
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