Hospital Input Price Indexes
Author : Mark S. Freeland
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Release : 1982
Category : Hospitals
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Author : Mark S. Freeland
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File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Hospitals
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 1983
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Hospitals
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 1990
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Page : 13 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Hospitals
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Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,92 MB
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309186846
It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they represent increases in the real quantity of medical services as opposed to increased unit prices of existing services. And an even more fundamental question is the degree to which the increased spending actually has purchased improved health. Accounting for Health and Health Care addresses both these issues. The government agencies responsible for measuring unit prices for medical services have taken steps in recent years that have greatly improved the accuracy of those measures. Nonetheless, this book has several recommendations aimed at further improving the price indices.
Author : University of Florida. Center for Health Policy Research
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File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Price indexes
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Page : 372 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Economic indicators
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Author : David M. Cutler
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Page : 630 pages
File Size : 14,59 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Cost effectiveness
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With the United States and other developed nations spending as much as 14 percent of their GDP on medical care, economists and policy analysts are asking what these countries are getting in return. Yet it remains frustrating and difficult to measure the productivity of the medical care service industries. This volume takes aim at that problem, while taking stock of where we are in our attempts to solve it.
Author : J. R. Butler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9401101795
Hospital Cost Analysis provides an overview of theoretical developments in the economic analysis of production and costs in the multiproduct firm, and discusses these developments. Following a lucid explanation of the concepts of jointness, input/output separability and returns to scale, a detailed discussion of the concept measurement and classification of hospital output is provided. A fundamental dilemma confronting economists interested in estimating hospital cost functions is highlighted, viz. the trade-off between flexibility in functional form and homogeneity within hospital output categories. Empirical results on the effects of case mix, scale and utilisation, public/private ownership, and the centralised administration of hospital systems on hospital costs are presented. The implications of hospital cost analysis for public policy with respect to hospital payment schemes, including schemes based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), are also considered. This book brings together the literature on hospital cost analysis with theoretical developments in the analysis of the multiproduct cost functions. It will be of considerable interest to teachers and students of health economics and health policy advisers interested in the determinants of hospital costs and the design of hospital payment schemes.