Book Description

Excerpt from Summary of Grants and Contracts Active on September 30, 1979 The hypothesis of how hospital rate setting affects union impact on costs will be tested, using the technological cost function and behavioral models approach to measure hospital costs. These two approaches will serve as the basis for a variety of models and specifications that will be used to measure union impact. The source of most of the dependent and independent variables, cost. Output volume, product mix, will be the Medicare cost reports. Input price data and hospital characteristics are from the aha and Area-wage Survey. Regression analysis will be used to test these models. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.