News & Press Releases

News & Press Releases January 30, 2025

January 2025 Newsletter

PHC4 releases its January 2025 Newsletter.

News & Press Releases January 23, 2025

PHC4 Reports Support Stakeholders, Providing Data about Hospitalizations and Ambulatory/Outpatient Cases in Pennsylvania

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. 

News & Press Releases December 12, 2024

PHC4’s Hospital Performance Report Shows In-Hospital Mortality Increased for Eight Common Medical Conditions in 2023

The 2023 Hospital Performance Report (HPR), produced by PHC4, provides information about the performance of Pennsylvania hospitals for 17 common medical conditions.

News & Press Releases November 21, 2024

PHC4’s Financial Analysis – Volume Three Shows the Dollar Value of Uncompensated Care for Non-GAC Hospitals Increased Almost 15%

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.

News & Press Releases October 30, 2024

October 2024 Newsletter

PHC4 releases its October 2024 Newsletter.

News & Press Releases October 15, 2024

PHC4 Reports Provide Pennsylvania Stakeholders Factual Utilization Insights, at a County-Level

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.

News & Press Releases October 3, 2024

PHC4’s Common Procedures Report Provides Insight for Stakeholders by Examining Inpatient and Outpatient Data

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.

News & Press Releases September 26, 2024

PHC4’s Financial Analysis, Volume Two Shows Pennsylvania’s Ambulatory Surgery Centers Net Patient Revenues Increased 14.1%

PHC4 releases Financial Analysis, Volume Two today, the second in a three-part series of reports released annually by the organization. Volume Two focuses on providing insight into the financial health of Pennsylvania’s ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).

News & Press Releases September 23, 2024

Current Events: Non-Compete Agreements in Health Care

PHC4 has released a new resource on its website, intended to support informing interested Pennsylvanians on current topics that impact health care in the Commonwealth. This first occurrence aims to offer insight into non-compete agreements in health care and includes an extensive summary of the events on both state and federal levels.