Cost savings associated with decreased emergency department utilization by reporting emergency department visits to specialists

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114, United States.
• ² Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114, United States; Lawrence Center for Quality and Safety, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114, United States.
• ³ Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114, United States; Department of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114, United States.
• ⁴ Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114, United States.
• ⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114, United States; Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114, United States; Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114, United States. Electronic address: [email protected].