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Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital receive above average insurance payments in comparison to other area hospitals—without showing better outcomes for patients, according to a Boston Globe report earlier this week...
...example, while Brigham receives $24,500 for a standard angioplasty, the lesser-known Metro-West Medical Center in Framingham receives $17,000 for the same procedure, according to analyses performed by the Globe’s Spotlight Team...
...can’t force the hospitals,” said Brodnicki, who also worked at Partners Healthcare, the non-profit organization that owns Harvard-affiliates Mass. General and Brigham and Women’s. “We work with them and see what makes the best sense for them and the medical students...
...This is the fundamental problem in the prevention and treatment of heart attacks and strokes, according to Harvard Medical School professor Paul Ridker, the director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. It is the story of the “45-year-old woman or man who goes out running and doesn’t come home because he or she drops dead,” Ridker said...
...Several years later, Ridker and his colleagues at the Medical School and Brigham and Women’s have released the results of a study testing the effectiveness of the cholesterol-lowering drug rouvastatin in treating individuals with high levels of a reactive protein that is an indicator of heart disease...