Patients as well as providers are unaware of hospital costs regarding the services they provide. Increased transparency of hospital acute care costs and utilization data is needed to enable more cost-effective care. There are many opportunities to improve the efficiency and quality of inpatient care in hospital settings. Hospitals should look to expand more services during extended hours, explore practice utilization, and implement alternative physician staffing models to facilitate high-quality, more efficient care. There is no financial incentive to coordinate care or ensure that patients have access to continued care once they leave the hospital. Guidelines and financial incentives need to be developed and implemented to improve care coordination at all levels in terms of health services. The patient may cost less, but finding insurance to cover these specialized doctors will become another challenge..