By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Freestanding emergency departments (EDs) are becoming more common in many communities across the U.S., often popping up in places where people are wealthier and likely to have private health insurance, a recent study suggests. Freestanding EDs can provide many of the same services as their traditional counterparts housed inside hospitals – the big exception is they don’t admit patients for ongoing care. Nationwide, the number of freestanding emergency departments surged 62 percent to 360 as of March 2015, from just 222 in 2009, researchers report in the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
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Are freestanding emergency rooms following the money?
