A new report from the St. Louis Area Business Health Coalition found St. Louis’ most expensive hospitals don’t provide the best quality care, writes St Louis Public Radio. The region’s two academic medical centers, Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Saint Louis University Hospital, offer the most expensive care in the region even though they rate among the lowest for hospital quality, according to the report. The coalition report compares the average cost a patient pays for care with ratings the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services give for hospital-quality measures, such as patient satisfaction, mortality rates and readmission rates.
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- St. Louis Public Radio: Barnes-Jewish, SLU hospitals rank high on price, low on quality; critics call rating unfair