Figure 4.

Time course of financial outcomes from payer and hospital perspective. (A) After the index hospitalization, there was a more than $10,000 reduction in insurance payments (hospital revenue) per patient. (B) After one year of follow-up, the reduction in insurance payments (hospital revenue) increased to greater than $14,000 per patient. (C) Despite marked improvement in hospital cost structure (Tables 1 and 3), hospital net income showed a slight numerical decrease as the decrease in revenue exceeded the cost reductions. Post-discharge one-year financial data include both outpatient and inpatient hospital encounters.