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Hospital CostsCosts and Cost AnalysisHealth Care CostsEconomics, HospitalLength of StayCost AllocationHospital ChargesCost ControlHospitals, UniversityCost of IllnessHospitals, TeachingDrug CostsCost-Benefit AnalysisDiagnosis-Related GroupsHospital Bed Capacity, 500 and overHospital Bed CapacityHospital PlanningHospitalizationCost SavingsInsurance, Health, ReimbursementHospitals, UrbanDirect Service CostsHospitals, GeneralFinancial Management, HospitalRetrospective StudiesUnited StatesInsurance, HospitalizationModels, EconomicIntermediate Care FacilitiesHospitals, ProprietaryMedicareNursing Staff, HospitalAccountingHospitalistsPatient AdmissionAncillary Services, HospitalHospitals, PediatricEconomic CompetitionProspective StudiesHospitals, DistrictPatient ReadmissionHospitals, SpecialMulti-Institutional SystemsCritical PathwaysRecovery RoomOperating RoomsHealth ResourcesInpatientsOwnershipEconomics, MedicalBed OccupancySurgical Procedures, ElectiveHealth Facility ClosureHospitals, PrivateTime FactorsPatient DischargeEmergency Service, HospitalModels, EconometricProspective Payment SystemHealth ExpendituresIntensive Care UnitsAcademic Medical CentersOutcome Assessment (Health Care)Postoperative ComplicationsHospitals, CommunityCost SharingUtilization ReviewCross InfectionHospital DepartmentsHealth Services ResearchQuality of Health CareHospitals, PsychiatricAmbulatory Surgical ProceduresHospital UnitsHospital RecordsSurgical Procedures, OperativeInfant, NewbornRegression AnalysisRisk FactorsLaryngeal DiseasesQuality-Adjusted Life YearsEquipment and Supplies, HospitalTreatment OutcomeDatabases, FactualEfficiency, OrganizationalLibraries, HospitalManaged Care ProgramsCohort StudiesVascular Surgical ProceduresRisk AdjustmentOutpatient Clinics, HospitalSurgery Department, HospitalAmbulatory CareMedicaidMultivariate AnalysisFollow-Up StudiesHospitals, CountyHospitalsInsurance, HealthMassachusettsIncidenceNew JerseyInfection ControlAnti-Bacterial AgentsChi-Square DistributionAge FactorsHospital AdministrationAmerican Hospital AssociationHospital Information SystemsCaliforniaFood Service, HospitalHospitals, MunicipalDatabases as TopicHospital MortalitySeverity of Illness IndexRisk AssessmentNew YorkPerioperative PeriodObstetrics and Gynecology Department, HospitalPatient Care TeamLogistic ModelsSurgical Wound InfectionOutcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)Cardiac Surgical ProceduresHospitals, ReligiousHealth Maintenance OrganizationsEnglandLaryngectomyComorbidityHospitals, MaternityNursing Service, HospitalLaboratories, HospitalColectomyHospital Shared ServicesAortic Aneurysm, AbdominalCardiology Service, HospitalHospital Bed Capacity, under 100BacteremiaHospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299Statistics, NonparametricLaparoscopyQuestionnairesBurnsStrokeHospitals, MilitaryHospitals, VeteransLinear ModelsSurvival AnalysisQuality of LifeGreat BritainEmployer Health CostsHealth Facility SizeCross-Sectional StudiesHealth Care SurveysMedical AuditHospitals, AnimalCoronary Artery BypassAnesthesiaReferral and ConsultationPatient TransferTertiary Care CentersPurchasing, HospitalNurseries, HospitalQuality Indicators, Health CarePsychiatric Department, HospitalPrevalenceData CollectionEmergency Medical ServicesFormularies, HospitalQuality Assurance, Health CareOncology Service, HospitalBlood Vessel Prosthesis ImplantationMedical RecordsState MedicineHousekeeping, HospitalPatient SatisfactionHealth Facility MergerCatchment Area (Health)
Hospital Costs: The expenses incurred by a hospital in providing care. The hospital costs attributed to a particular patient care episode include the direct costs plus an appropriate proportion of the overhead for administration, personnel, building maintenance, equipment, etc. Hospital costs are one of the factors which determine HOSPITAL CHARGES (the price the hospital sets for its services).Costs and Cost Analysis: Absolute, comparative, or differential costs pertaining to services, institutions, resources, etc., or the analysis and study of these costs.Health Care Costs: The actual costs of providing services related to the delivery of health care, including the costs of procedures, therapies, and medications. It is differentiated from HEALTH EXPENDITURES, which refers to the amount of money paid for the services, and from fees, which refers to the amount charged, regardless of cost.Economics, Hospital: Economic aspects related to the management and operation of a hospital.Length of Stay: The period of confinement of a patient to a hospital or other health facility.Cost Allocation: The assignment, to each of several particular cost-centers, of an equitable proportion of the costs of activities that serve all of them. Cost-center usually refers to institutional departments or services.Hospital Charges: The prices a hospital sets for its services. HOSPITAL COSTS (the direct and indirect expenses incurred by the hospital in providing the services) are one factor in the determination of hospital charges. Other factors may include, for example, profits, competition, and the necessity of recouping the costs of uncompensated care.Cost Control: The containment, regulation, or restraint of costs. Costs are said to be contained when the value of resources committed to an activity is not considered excessive. This determination is frequently subjective and dependent upon the specific geographic area of the activity being measured. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)Hospitals, University: Hospitals maintained by a university for the teaching of medical students, postgraduate training programs, and clinical research.Cost of Illness: The personal cost of acute or chronic disease. The cost to the patient may be an economic, social, or psychological cost or personal loss to self, family, or immediate community. The cost of illness may be reflected in absenteeism, productivity, response to treatment, peace of mind, or QUALITY OF LIFE. It differs from HEALTH CARE COSTS, meaning the societal cost of providing services related to the delivery of health care, rather than personal impact on individuals.Hospitals, Teaching: Hospitals engaged in educational and research programs, as well as providing medical care to the patients.Drug Costs: The amount that a health care institution or organization pays for its drugs. It is one component of the final price that is charged to the consumer (FEES, PHARMACEUTICAL or PRESCRIPTION FEES).Cost-Benefit Analysis: A method of comparing the cost of a program with its expected benefits in dollars (or other currency). The benefit-to-cost ratio is a measure of total return expected per unit of money spent. This analysis generally excludes consideration of factors that are not measured ultimately in economic terms. Cost effectiveness compares alternative ways to achieve a specific set of results.Diagnosis-Related Groups: A system for classifying patient care by relating common characteristics such as diagnosis, treatment, and age to an expected consumption of hospital resources and length of stay. Its purpose is to provide a framework for specifying case mix and to reduce hospital costs and reimbursements and it forms the cornerstone of the prospective payment system.Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and overHospital Bed Capacity: The number of beds which a hospital has been designed and constructed to contain. It may also refer to the number of beds set up and staffed for use.Hospital Planning: Areawide planning for hospitals or planning of a particular hospital unit on the basis of projected consumer need. This does not include hospital design and construction or architectural plans.Hospitalization: The confinement of a patient in a hospital.Cost Savings: Reductions in all or any portion of the costs of providing goods or services. Savings may be incurred by the provider or the consumer.Insurance, Health, Reimbursement: Payment by a third-party payer in a sum equal to the amount expended by a health care provider or facility for health services rendered to an insured or program beneficiary. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)Hospitals, Urban: Hospitals located in metropolitan areas.Direct Service Costs: Costs which are directly identifiable with a particular service.Hospitals, General: Large hospitals with a resident medical staff which provides continuous care to maternity, surgical and medical patients.Financial Management, Hospital: The obtaining and management of funds for hospital needs and responsibility for fiscal affairs.Retrospective Studies: Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.United StatesInsurance, Hospitalization: Health insurance providing benefits to cover or partly cover hospital expenses.Models, Economic: Statistical models of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, as well as of financial considerations. For the application of statistics to the testing and quantifying of economic theories MODELS, ECONOMETRIC is available.Intermediate Care Facilities: Institutions which provide health-related care and services to individuals who do not require the degree of care which hospitals or skilled nursing facilities provide, but because of their physical or mental condition require care and services above the level of room and board.Hospitals, Proprietary: Hospitals owned and operated by a corporation or an individual that operate on a for-profit basis, also referred to as investor-owned hospitals.Medicare: Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XVIII-Health Insurance for the Aged, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, that provides health insurance benefits to persons over the age of 65 and others eligible for Social Security benefits. It consists of two separate but coordinated programs: hospital insurance (MEDICARE PART A) and supplementary medical insurance (MEDICARE PART B). (Hospital Administration Terminology, AHA, 2d ed and A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, US House of Representatives, 1976)Nursing Staff, Hospital: Personnel who provide nursing service to patients in a hospital.Accounting: System of recording financial transactions.Hospitalists: Physicians who are employed to work exclusively in hospital settings, primarily for managed care organizations. They are the attending or primary responsible physician for the patient during hospitalization.Patient Admission: The process of accepting patients. The concept includes patients accepted for medical and nursing care in a hospital or other health care institution.Ancillary Services, Hospital: Those support services other than room, board, and medical and nursing services that are provided to hospital patients in the course of care. They include such services as laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and physical therapy services.Hospitals, Pediatric: Special hospitals which provide care for ill children.Economic Competition: The effort of two or more parties to secure the business of a third party by offering, usually under fair or equitable rules of business practice, the most favorable terms.Prospective Studies: Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.Hospitals, District: Government-controlled hospitals which represent the major health facility for a designated geographic area.Patient Readmission: Subsequent admissions of a patient to a hospital or other health care institution for treatment.Hospitals, Special: Hospitals which provide care for a single category of illness with facilities and staff directed toward a specific service.Multi-Institutional Systems: Institutional systems consisting of more than one health facility which have cooperative administrative arrangements through merger, affiliation, shared services, or other collective ventures.Critical Pathways: Schedules of medical and nursing procedures, including diagnostic tests, medications, and consultations designed to effect an efficient, coordinated program of treatment. (From Mosby's Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, 4th ed)Recovery Room: Hospital unit providing continuous monitoring of the patient following anesthesia.Operating Rooms: Facilities equipped for performing surgery.Health Resources: Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services.Inpatients: Persons admitted to health facilities which provide board and room, for the purpose of observation, care, diagnosis or treatment.Ownership: The legal relation between an entity (individual, group, corporation, or-profit, secular, government) and an object. The object may be corporeal, such as equipment, or completely a creature of law, such as a patent; it may be movable, such as an animal, or immovable, such as a building.Economics, Medical: Economic aspects of the field of medicine, the medical profession, and health care. It includes the economic and financial impact of disease in general on the patient, the physician, society, or government.Bed Occupancy: A measure of inpatient health facility use based upon the average number or proportion of beds occupied for a given period of time.Surgical Procedures, Elective: Surgery which could be postponed or not done at all without danger to the patient. Elective surgery includes procedures to correct non-life-threatening medical problems as well as to alleviate conditions causing psychological stress or other potential risk to patients, e.g., cosmetic or contraceptive surgery.Health Facility Closure: The closing of any health facility, e.g., health centers, residential facilities, and hospitals.Hospitals, Private: A class of hospitals that includes profit or not-for-profit hospitals that are controlled by a legal entity other than a government agency. (Hospital Administration Terminology, AHA, 2d ed)Time Factors: Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.Patient Discharge: The administrative process of discharging the patient, alive or dead, from hospitals or other health facilities.Emergency Service, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of immediate medical or surgical care to the emergency patient.Models, Econometric: The application of mathematical formulas and statistical techniques to the testing and quantifying of economic theories and the solution of economic problems.Prospective Payment System: A system wherein reimbursement rates are set, for a given period of time, prior to the circumstances giving rise to actual reimbursement claims.Health Expenditures: The amounts spent by individuals, groups, nations, or private or public organizations for total health care and/or its various components. These amounts may or may not be equivalent to the actual costs (HEALTH CARE COSTS) and may or may not be shared among the patient, insurers, and/or employers.Intensive Care Units: Hospital units providing continuous surveillance and care to acutely ill patients.Academic Medical Centers: Medical complexes consisting of medical school, hospitals, clinics, libraries, administrative facilities, etc.Outcome Assessment (Health Care): Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure).Postoperative Complications: Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery.Hospitals, Community: Institutions with permanent facilities and organized medical staff which provide the full range of hospital services primarily to a neighborhood area.Cost Sharing: Provisions of an insurance policy that require the insured to pay some portion of covered expenses. Several forms of sharing are in use, e.g., deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Cost sharing does not refer to or include amounts paid in premiums for the coverage. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)Utilization Review: An organized procedure carried out through committees to review admissions, duration of stay, professional services furnished, and to evaluate the medical necessity of those services and promote their most efficient use.Cross Infection: Any infection which a patient contracts in a health-care institution.Hospital Departments: Major administrative divisions of the hospital.Health Services Research: The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)Quality of Health Care: The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.Hospitals, Psychiatric: Special hospitals which provide care to the mentally ill patient.Ambulatory Surgical Procedures: Surgery performed on an outpatient basis. It may be hospital-based or performed in an office or surgicenter.Hospital Units: Those areas of the hospital organization not considered departments which provide specialized patient care. They include various hospital special care wards.Hospital Records: Compilations of data on hospital activities and programs; excludes patient medical records.Surgical Procedures, Operative: Operations carried out for the correction of deformities and defects, repair of injuries, and diagnosis and cure of certain diseases. (Taber, 18th ed.)Infant, Newborn: An infant during the first month after birth.Regression Analysis: Procedures for finding the mathematical function which best describes the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. In linear regression (see LINEAR MODELS) the relationship is constrained to be a straight line and LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS is used to determine the best fit. In logistic regression (see LOGISTIC MODELS) the dependent variable is qualitative rather than continuously variable and LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS are used to find the best relationship. In multiple regression, the dependent variable is considered to depend on more than a single independent variable.Risk Factors: An aspect of personal behavior or lifestyle, environmental exposure, or inborn or inherited characteristic, which, on the basis of epidemiologic evidence, is known to be associated with a health-related condition considered important to prevent.Laryngeal Diseases: Pathological processes involving any part of the LARYNX which coordinates many functions such as voice production, breathing, swallowing, and coughing.Quality-Adjusted Life Years: A measurement index derived from a modification of standard life-table procedures and designed to take account of the quality as well as the duration of survival. This index can be used in assessing the outcome of health care procedures or services. (BIOETHICS Thesaurus, 1994)Equipment and Supplies, Hospital: Any materials used in providing care specifically in the hospital.Treatment Outcome: Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.Databases, Factual: Extensive collections, reputedly complete, of facts and data garnered from material of a specialized subject area and made available for analysis and application. The collection can be automated by various contemporary methods for retrieval. The concept should be differentiated from DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC which is restricted to collections of bibliographic references.Efficiency, Organizational: The capacity of an organization, institution, or business to produce desired results with a minimum expenditure of energy, time, money, personnel, materiel, etc.Libraries, Hospital: Information centers primarily serving the needs of hospital medical staff and sometimes also providing patient education and other services.Managed Care Programs: Health insurance plans intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. The programs may be provided in a variety of settings, such as HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS and PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS.Cohort Studies: Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics.Vascular Surgical Procedures: Operative procedures for the treatment of vascular disorders.Risk Adjustment: The use of severity-of-illness measures, such as age, to estimate the risk (measurable or predictable chance of loss, injury or death) to which a patient is subject before receiving some health care intervention. This adjustment allows comparison of performance and quality across organizations, practitioners, and communities. (from JCAHO, Lexikon, 1994)Outpatient Clinics, Hospital: Organized services in a hospital which provide medical care on an outpatient basis.Surgery Department, Hospital: Hospital department which administers all departmental functions and the provision of surgical diagnostic and therapeutic services.Ambulatory Care: Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may be a part of a hospital, augmenting its inpatient services, or may be provided at a free-standing facility.Medicaid: Federal program, created by Public Law 89-97, Title XIX, a 1965 amendment to the Social Security Act, administered by the states, that provides health care benefits to indigent and medically indigent persons.Multivariate Analysis: A set of techniques used when variation in several variables has to be studied simultaneously. In statistics, multivariate analysis is interpreted as any analytic method that allows simultaneous study of two or more dependent variables.Follow-Up Studies: Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.Hospitals, County: Hospitals controlled by the county government.Hospitals: Institutions with an organized medical staff which provide medical care to patients.Insurance, Health: Insurance providing coverage of medical, surgical, or hospital care in general or for which there is no specific heading.MassachusettsIncidence: The number of new cases of a given disease during a given period in a specified population. It also is used for the rate at which new events occur in a defined population. It is differentiated from PREVALENCE, which refers to all cases, new or old, in the population at a given time.New JerseyInfection Control: Programs of disease surveillance, generally within health care facilities, designed to investigate, prevent, and control the spread of infections and their causative microorganisms.Anti-Bacterial Agents: Substances that reduce the growth or reproduction of BACTERIA.Chi-Square Distribution: A distribution in which a variable is distributed like the sum of the squares of any given independent random variable, each of which has a normal distribution with mean of zero and variance of one. The chi-square test is a statistical test based on comparison of a test statistic to a chi-square distribution. The oldest of these tests are used to detect whether two or more population distributions differ from one another.Age Factors: Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.Hospital Administration: Management of the internal organization of the hospital.American Hospital Association: A professional society in the United States whose membership is composed of hospitals.Hospital Information Systems: Integrated, computer-assisted systems designed to store, manipulate, and retrieve information concerned with the administrative and clinical aspects of providing medical services within the hospital.CaliforniaFood Service, Hospital: Hospital department that manages and supervises the dietary program in accordance with the patients' requirements.Hospitals, Municipal: Hospitals controlled by the city government.Databases as Topic: Organized collections of computer records, standardized in format and content, that are stored in any of a variety of computer-readable modes. They are the basic sets of data from which computer-readable files are created. (from ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)Hospital Mortality: A vital statistic measuring or recording the rate of death from any cause in hospitalized populations.Severity of Illness Index: Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.Risk Assessment: The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)New YorkPerioperative Period: The time periods immediately before, during and following a surgical operation.Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the administration and management of services provided for obstetric and gynecologic patients.Patient Care Team: Care of patients by a multidisciplinary team usually organized under the leadership of a physician; each member of the team has specific responsibilities and the whole team contributes to the care of the patient.Logistic Models: Statistical models which describe the relationship between a qualitative dependent variable (that is, one which can take only certain discrete values, such as the presence or absence of a disease) and an independent variable. A common application is in epidemiology for estimating an individual's risk (probability of a disease) as a function of a given risk factor.Surgical Wound Infection: Infection occurring at the site of a surgical incision.Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care): Evaluation procedures that focus on both the outcome or status (OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT) of the patient at the end of an episode of care - presence of symptoms, level of activity, and mortality; and the process (ASSESSMENT, PROCESS) - what is done for the patient diagnostically and therapeutically.Cardiac Surgical Procedures: Surgery performed on the heart.Hospitals, Religious: Private hospitals that are owned or sponsored by religious organizations.Health Maintenance Organizations: Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)EnglandLaryngectomy: Total or partial excision of the larynx.Comorbidity: The presence of co-existing or additional diseases with reference to an initial diagnosis or with reference to the index condition that is the subject of study. Comorbidity may affect the ability of affected individuals to function and also their survival; it may be used as a prognostic indicator for length of hospital stay, cost factors, and outcome or survival.Hospitals, Maternity: Special hospitals which provide care to women during pregnancy and parturition.Nursing Service, Hospital: The hospital department which is responsible for the organization and administration of nursing activities.Laboratories, Hospital: Hospital facilities equipped to carry out investigative procedures.Colectomy: Excision of a portion of the colon or of the whole colon. (Dorland, 28th ed)Hospital Shared Services: Cooperation among hospitals for the purpose of sharing various departmental services, e.g., pharmacy, laundry, data processing, etc.Aortic Aneurysm, Abdominal: An abnormal balloon- or sac-like dilatation in the wall of the ABDOMINAL AORTA which gives rise to the visceral, the parietal, and the terminal (iliac) branches below the aortic hiatus at the diaphragm.Cardiology Service, Hospital: The hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of diagnostic and therapeutic services for the cardiac patient.Hospital Bed Capacity, under 100Bacteremia: The presence of viable bacteria circulating in the blood. Fever, chills, tachycardia, and tachypnea are common acute manifestations of bacteremia. The majority of cases are seen in already hospitalized patients, most of whom have underlying diseases or procedures which render their bloodstreams susceptible to invasion.Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299Statistics, Nonparametric: A class of statistical methods applicable to a large set of probability distributions used to test for correlation, location, independence, etc. In most nonparametric statistical tests, the original scores or observations are replaced by another variable containing less information. An important class of nonparametric tests employs the ordinal properties of the data. Another class of tests uses information about whether an observation is above or below some fixed value such as the median, and a third class is based on the frequency of the occurrence of runs in the data. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed, p1284; Corsini, Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology, 1987, p764-5)Laparoscopy: A procedure in which a laparoscope (LAPAROSCOPES) is inserted through a small incision near the navel to examine the abdominal and pelvic organs in the PERITONEAL CAVITY. If appropriate, biopsy or surgery can be performed during laparoscopy.Questionnaires: Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.Burns: Injuries to tissues caused by contact with heat, steam, chemicals (BURNS, CHEMICAL), electricity (BURNS, ELECTRIC), or the like.Stroke: A group of pathological conditions characterized by sudden, non-convulsive loss of neurological function due to BRAIN ISCHEMIA or INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES. Stroke is classified by the type of tissue NECROSIS, such as the anatomic location, vasculature involved, etiology, age of the affected individual, and hemorrhagic vs. non-hemorrhagic nature. (From Adams et al., Principles of Neurology, 6th ed, pp777-810)Hospitals, Military: Hospitals which provide care for the military personnel and usually for their dependents.Hospitals, Veterans: Hospitals providing medical care to veterans of wars.Linear Models: Statistical models in which the value of a parameter for a given value of a factor is assumed to be equal to a + bx, where a and b are constants. The models predict a linear regression.Survival Analysis: A class of statistical procedures for estimating the survival function (function of time, starting with a population 100% well at a given time and providing the percentage of the population still well at later times). The survival analysis is then used for making inferences about the effects of treatments, prognostic factors, exposures, and other covariates on the function.Quality of Life: A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral and social environment; the overall condition of a human life.Great BritainEmployer Health Costs: That portion of total HEALTH CARE COSTS borne by an individual's or group's employing organization.Health Facility Size: The physical space or dimensions of a facility. Size may be indicated by bed capacity.Cross-Sectional Studies: Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time.Health Care Surveys: Statistical measures of utilization and other aspects of the provision of health care services including hospitalization and ambulatory care.Medical Audit: A detailed review and evaluation of selected clinical records by qualified professional personnel for evaluating quality of medical care.Hospitals, AnimalCoronary Artery Bypass: Surgical therapy of ischemic coronary artery disease achieved by grafting a section of saphenous vein, internal mammary artery, or other substitute between the aorta and the obstructed coronary artery distal to the obstructive lesion.Anesthesia: A state characterized by loss of feeling or sensation. This depression of nerve function is usually the result of pharmacologic action and is induced to allow performance of surgery or other painful procedures.Referral and Consultation: The practice of sending a patient to another program or practitioner for services or advice which the referring source is not prepared to provide.Patient Transfer: Interfacility or intrahospital transfer of patients. Intrahospital transfer is usually to obtain a specific kind of care and interfacility transfer is usually for economic reasons as well as for the type of care provided.Tertiary Care Centers: A medical facility which provides a high degree of subspecialty expertise for patients from centers where they received SECONDARY CARE.Purchasing, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the purchasing of supplies and equipment.Nurseries, Hospital: Hospital facilities which provide care for newborn infants.Quality Indicators, Health Care: Norms, criteria, standards, and other direct qualitative and quantitative measures used in determining the quality of health care.Psychiatric Department, Hospital: Hospital department responsible for the organization and administration of psychiatric services.Prevalence: The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.Data Collection: Systematic gathering of data for a particular purpose from various sources, including questionnaires, interviews, observation, existing records, and electronic devices. The process is usually preliminary to statistical analysis of the data.Emergency Medical Services: Services specifically designed, staffed, and equipped for the emergency care of patients.Formularies, Hospital: Formularies concerned with pharmaceuticals prescribed in hospitals.Quality Assurance, Health Care: Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps.Oncology Service, Hospital: The hospital department responsible for the administration and provision of diagnostic and therapeutic services for the cancer patient.Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation: Surgical insertion of BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES to repair injured or diseased blood vessels.Medical Records: Recording of pertinent information concerning patient's illness or illnesses.State Medicine: A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population.Housekeeping, Hospital: Hospital department which manages and provides the required housekeeping functions in all areas of the hospital.Patient Satisfaction: The degree to which the individual regards the health care service or product or the manner in which it is delivered by the provider as useful, effective, or beneficial.Health Facility Merger: The combining of administrative and organizational resources of two or more health care facilities.Catchment Area (Health): A geographic area defined and served by a health program or institution.

Practice patterns, case mix, Medicare payment policy, and dialysis facility costs. (1/1002)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of case mix, practice patterns, features of the payment system, and facility characteristics on the cost of dialysis. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: The nationally representative sample of dialysis units in the 1991 U.S. Renal Data System's Case Mix Adequacy (CMA) Study. The CMA data were merged with data from Medicare Cost Reports, HCFA facility surveys, and HCFA's end-stage renal disease patient registry. STUDY DESIGN: We estimated a statistical cost function to examine the determinants of costs at the dialysis unit level. PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: The relationship between case mix and costs was generally weak. However, dialysis practices (type of dialysis membrane, membrane reuse policy, and treatment duration) did have a significant effect on costs. Further, facilities whose payment was constrained by HCFA's ceiling on the adjustment for area wage rates incurred higher costs than unconstrained facilities. The costs of hospital-based units were considerably higher than those of freestanding units. Among chain units, only members of one of the largest national chains exhibited significant cost savings relative to independent facilities. CONCLUSIONS: Little evidence showed that adjusting dialysis payment to account for differences in case mix across facilities would be necessary to ensure access to care for high-cost patients or to reimburse facilities equitably for their costs. However, current efforts to increase dose of dialysis may require higher payments. Longer treatments appear to be the most economical method of increasing the dose of dialysis. Switching to more expensive types of dialysis membranes was a more costly means of increasing dose and hence must be justified by benefits beyond those of higher dose. Reusing membranes saved money, but the savings were insufficient to offset the costs associated with using more expensive membranes. Most, but not all, of the higher costs observed in hospital-based units appear to reflect overhead cost allocation rather than a difference in real resources devoted to treatment. The economies experienced by the largest chains may provide an explanation for their recent growth in market share. The heterogeneity of results by chain size implies that characterizing units using a simple chain status indicator variable is inadequate. Cost differences by facility type and the effects of the ongoing growth of large chains are worthy of continued monitoring to inform both payment policy and antitrust enforcement.  (+info)

The economic impact of Staphylococcus aureus infection in New York City hospitals. (2/1002)

We modeled estimates of the incidence, deaths, and direct medical costs of Staphylococcus aureus infections in hospitalized patients in the New York City metropolitan area in 1995 by using hospital discharge data collected by the New York State Department of Health and standard sources for the costs of health care. We also examined the relative impact of methicillin-resistant versus -sensitive strains of S. aureus and of community-acquired versus nosocomial infections. S. aureus-associated hospitalizations resulted in approximately twice the length of stay, deaths, and medical costs of typical hospitalizations; methicillin-resistant and -sensitive infections had similar direct medical costs, but resistant infections caused more deaths (21% versus 8%). Community-acquired and nosocomial infections had similar death rates, but community-acquired infections appeared to have increased direct medical costs per patient ($35,300 versus $28,800). The results of our study indicate that reducing the incidence of methicillin-resistant and -sensitive nosocomial infections would reduce the societal costs of S. aureus infection.  (+info)

Total joint replacement: implication of cancelled operations for hospital costs and waiting list management. (3/1002)

OBJECTIVE: To identify aspects of provision of total joint replacements which could be improved. DESIGN: 10 month prospective study of hospital admissions and hospital costs for patients whose total joint replacement was cancelled. SETTING: Information and Waiting List Unit, Musgrave Park Regional Orthopaedic Service, Belfast. PATIENTS: 284 consecutive patients called for admission for total joint replacement. MAIN MEASURES: Costs of cancellation of operation after admission in terms of hotel and opportunity costs. RESULTS: 28(10%) planned operations were cancelled, 27 of which were avoidable cancellations. Five replacement patients were substituted on the theatre list, leaving 22(8%) of 232 operating theatre opportunities unused. Patients seen at assessment clinics within two months before admission had a significantly higher operation rate than those admitted from a routine waiting list (224/232(97%) v 32/52(62%), x2 = 58.6, df = 1; p < 0.005). Mean duration of hospital stay in 28 patients with cancelled operations was 1.92 days. Operating theatre opportunity costs were 73% of the total costs of cancelled total joint replacements. CONCLUSION: Patients on long waiting lists for surgery should be reassessed before admission to avoid wasting theatre opportunities, whose cost is the largest component of the total costs of cancelled operations.  (+info)

Resource allocation for public hospitals in Andhra Pradesh, India. (4/1002)

The composition of the hospital sector has important implications for cost effectiveness accessibility and coverage. The classification of acute general hospitals is reviewed here with particular reference to India and Andhra Pradesh. Approaches to arrive at a norm for allocation of hospital expenditure among secondary and tertiary hospitals are discussed. The actual allocation of public sector hospital expenditures is analyzed with data from Andhra Pradesh. The shift in allocative emphasis away from hospitals and in favour of primary health care during the 1980s was found to have been equally shared by secondary and tertiary hospitals. The shares of recurrent (non-plan) expenditure to secondary and tertiary hospitals were 51% and 49% respectively. This can be compared to a derived norm of 66% and 33%. The opportunity that new investment funds (plan schemes) could have provided to rectify the expenditure bias against secondary level hospitals was missed as two-thirds of plan expenditure were also spent on tertiary level hospitals. The share of secondary hospital bed capacity was 45.5% against India's Planning Commission norm of 70%. Public spending strategies should explicitly consider what mix of hospital services is being financed as well as the balance between hospital and primary health care expenditures.  (+info)

The influence of day of life in predicting the inpatient costs for providing care to very low birth weight infants. (5/1002)

The purpose of this study was to test, refine, and extend a statistical model that adjusts neonatal intensive care costs for a very low birth weight infant's day of life and birth weight category. Subjects were 62 infants with birth weights below 1,501 g who were born and cared for in a university hospital until discharged home alive. Subjects were stratified into 250-g birth weight categories. Clinical and actual daily room and ancillary-resource costs for each day of care of each infant were tabulated. Data were analyzed by using a nonlinear regression procedure specifying two separate for modeling. The modeling was performed with data sets that both included and excluded room costs. The former set of data were used for generating a model applicable for comparing interhospital performances and the latter for comparing interphysician performances. The results confirm the existence of a strong statistical relationship between an infant's day of life and both total hospital costs and the isolated costs for ancillary-resource alone (P < 0.0001). A refined series of statistical models have been generated that are applicable to the assessment of either interhospital or interphysician costs associated with providing inpatient care to very low birth weight infants.  (+info)

Short-term continuous infusion thrombolytic therapy for occluded central nervous venous dialysis catheters. (6/1002)

The necessity of maintaining a strict schedule of dialysis treatments in patients with chronic renal failure dictates that occluded access catheters be restored to full function in a timely and cost-effective manner. The records of 22 consecutive patients receiving outpatient treatment for occluded hemodialysis catheters at Osteopathic Medical Center of Texas were reviewed by the authors. Each patient had 100,000 units of urokinase in 50 ml normal saline instilled over 30 minutes through the occluded catheter. In most instances the dose was divided to allow 35 ml to the proximal port and 15 ml to the distal port. The maximum sustained blood flow rate on dialysis was recorded for each patient. The mean maximum sustained blood flow rate improved from 150 ml/min +/- 79 ml to 261 ml/min +/- 62 ml. Following infusion, improvement was obtained in 19 of 22 patients, with 14 catheters delivering blood flow greater than 250 ml/min. The total cost per treatment was $316. No adverse events were experienced. Thrombotic occlusion of extended use hemodialysis catheters can be rapidly and safely relieved in a cost-effective manner with little delay in scheduled dialysis treatments.  (+info)

Effects of a computerised protocol management system on ordering of clinical tests. (7/1002)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of a computerised protocol management system on the number, cost, and appropriateness of laboratory investigations requested. DESIGN: A before and after intervention. SETTING: A supraregional liver unit in a teaching hospital. PATIENTS: 1487 consecutive patients admitted during 1990 and 1991 (one year before and one year after introduction of the system). INTERVENTION: Introduction of a computerised protocol management system on 1 January 1991. MAIN MEASURES: The number and cost of clinical chemistry tests requested per patient day. RESULTS: The total number of clinical chemistry tests requested per patient day by the unit declined 17% (p < 0.001, Student's t test) and of out of hours tests requested per patient day from 0.31 to 0.16, 48% (p < 0.001; Mann-Whitney U test), resulting in a 28% reduction (p < 0.001) in direct laboratory expenditure per patient-day. Overall, the number of tests per admission decreased by 24% (p < 0.001; Mann-Whitney U test). CONCLUSION: Use of the computerised protocol management system resulted in closer compliance with the protocols and a significant reduction in the overall level of requesting. IMPLICATIONS: Although similar systems need to be tested in other clinical settings, computerised protocol management systems may be important in providing appropriate and cost effective health care.  (+info)

Developments in total quality management in the United States: the Intermountain Health Care perspective. (8/1002)

In summary our purpose has been to evaluate quality in the following terms. Best process of care--narrowing the variation of care decisions, working towards the best method. Best clinical outcome--decreased morbidity ond mortality. Best patient satisfaction--both for clinical outcome and the process of care. Best value--best value at the lowest cost. At Intermountain Health Care we believe that the best way to achieve the best quality improvement in a health care system is to involve all of the participants--patients, providers, and systems--in employing the principles of total quality management. Patient involvement--in prevention; participating in best care process through education and utilisation; in evaluating functional status before, during, and after intervention; in satisfaction; in clinical outcome and follow up with providers. Provider involvement--in planning, implementing, analysing, and educating; in defining guidelines; in reassessing and defining guidelines; in reassessing and continually modifying the care map, always striving for "best care." System involvement--in providing structure and mechanisms, support staff, and information systems and being willing to focus on quality as a part of its mission. An American philosopher, George Santayana, once said: "What we call the contagious force of an idea is really the force of the people who have embraced it." It will be up to all of us collectively to become the force behind moving quality management principles into the forefront of patient care methodology and ensuring that quality remains as the guiding principle of health care delivery in the future.  (+info)

The impact of payer-specific hospital case mix on hospital costs and r"The impact of payer-specific hospital case mix on hospital costs and r"
Competition among hospitals and managed care have forced hospital industry to be more efficient. With higher degrees of hospital competition and managed care penetration, hospitals have argued that the rate of increase in hospital cost is greater than the rate of increase in hospital revenue. By developing a payer-specific case mix index (CMI) for third-party patients, this paper examined the effect of hospital case mix on hospital cost and revenue for third-party patients in California using the hospital financial and utilization data covering 1986-1998. This study found that the coefficients for CMIs in the third-party hospital revenue model were greater than those in the hospital cost model until 1995. Since 1995, however, the coefficients for CMIs in the third-party hospital revenue model have been less than those in hospital cost models. Over time, the differences in coefficients for CMIs in hospital revenue and cost models for third-party patients have become smaller and smaller although those
A longitudinal study of the effects of age and time to death on hospital costs. - Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)A longitudinal study of the effects of age and time to death on hospital costs. - Health Economics Research Centre (HERC)
Recent studies indicate that approaching death, rather than age, may be the main demographic driver of health care costs. Using a 29-year longitudinal English dataset, this paper uses more robust methods to examine the effects of age and proximity to death on hospital costs. A random effects panel data two-part model shows that approaching death affects costs up to 15 years prior to death. The large tenfold increase in costs from 5 years prior to death to the last year of life overshadows the 30% increase in costs from age 65 to 85. Hence, expenditure projections must consider remaining life expectancy in the populations.
Health Care Policy And Financing Annual Report On Hospital Expenditures | Colorado General AssemblyHealth Care Policy And Financing Annual Report On Hospital Expenditures | Colorado General Assembly
The bill directs the department to consult with the hospital provider fee oversight and advisory board on the development of the hospital expenditure report. The department may combine the hospital expenditure report with the advisory boards annual report on the hospital provider fee. The advisory board, using staff and analysis from the department, shall provide estimates for the payment-to-cost ratio and the cost-shift analysis portions of its report based on information provided to the department by hospitals.. The hospital expenditure report shall include, but not be limited to:. ...
Assessing the Impact of Drug Use on Hospital Costs - RWJFAssessing the Impact of Drug Use on Hospital Costs - RWJF
This study determined that prescription drugs do have a positive effect on hospital expenditures by either preventing hospitalization or resulting in cost savings once patients have been admitted.
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The sources of hospital cost variabilityThe sources of hospital cost variability
Hospital heterogeneity is a major issue in defining a reimbursement system. If hospitals are heterogeneous, it is difficult to distinguish which part of the differences in costs is due to cost containment efforts and which part cannot be reduced, because it is due to other unobserved sources of hospital heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply an econometric approach to analyse hospital cost variability. We use a nested three-dimensional database (stays-hospitals-years) in order to explore the sources of variation in hospital costs, taking into account unobservable components of hospital cost heterogeneity. The three-dimensional structure of our data makes it possible to identify transitory and permanent components of hospital cost heterogeneity. Econometric estimates are performed on a sample of 7314 stays for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) observed in 36 French public hospitals over the period 1994-1997. Transitory unobservable hospital heterogeneity is far from negligible : its estimated ...
Trumps Patient-Friendly Push on Hospital Costs Has LimitsTrump's Patient-Friendly Push on Hospital Costs Has Limits
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- The Trump administration believes in the power of transparency, at least when it comes to health care. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday afternoon that calls for hospitals to tell patients how much they charge for surgeries and other services. These expenses
Hospital costs during the first 5 years of life for multiples compared with singletons born after IVF or ICSI<...Hospital costs during the first 5 years of life for multiples compared with singletons born after IVF or ICSI<...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Hospital costs during the first 5 years of life for multiples compared with singletons born after IVF or ICSI. AU - van Heesch, M.M.J.. AU - Evers, J.L.H.. AU - van der Hoeven, M.A.H.B.M.. AU - Dumoulin, J.C.M.. AU - van Beijsterveldt, C.E.M.. AU - Bonsel, G.J.. AU - Dykgraaf, R.H.M.. AU - van Goudoever, J.B.. AU - Koopman-Esseboom, C.. AU - Nelen, W.L.D.M.. AU - Steiner, K.. AU - Tamminga, P.. AU - Tonch, N.. AU - Torrance, H.L.. AU - Dirksen, C.D.. PY - 2015/6. Y1 - 2015/6. N2 - STUDY QUESTION: Do in vitro fertilization (IVF) multiples generate higher hospital costs than IVF singletons, from birth up to age 5?SUMMARY ANSWER: Hospital costs from birth up to age 5 were significantly higher among IVF/ICSI multiple children compared with IVF/ICSI singletons; however, when excluding the costs incurred during the birth admission period, hospital costs of multiples and singletons were comparable.WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Concern has risen over the long-term outcome of children born after ...
Fakultät VII Wirtschaft & Management: Röttger J, Scheller-Kreinsen D, Busse R (2012): Patient-level hospital costs and length...Fakultät VII Wirtschaft & Management: Röttger J, Scheller-Kreinsen D, Busse R (2012): Patient-level hospital costs and length...
Objectives: A current trend in total hip replacement (THR) is the use of minimally invasive surgery. Little is known, however, about the impact of minimally invasive THR on resource use and length of stay. This study analyzed the effect of minimally invasive surgery on hospital costs and length of stay in German hospitals compared with conventional treatment in THR. Methods: We used patient-level administrative hospital data from three German hospitals participating in the national cost data study. We conducted a propensity score matching to account for baseline differences between minimally invasively and conventionally treated patients. Subsequently, we estimated the treatment effect on costs and length of stay by conducting group comparisons, via paired t tests and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, and regression analyses. Results: The three hospitals provided data from 2886 THR patients. The propensity score matching led to 812 matched pairs. Length of stay was significantly higher for ...
Processes of early stroke care and hospital costs - Forskning - Aarhus UniversitetProcesses of early stroke care and hospital costs - Forskning - Aarhus Universitet
BACKGROUND: The relationship between processes of early stroke care and hospital costs remains unclear.. AIMS: We therefore examined the association in a population based cohort study.. METHODS: We identified 5909 stroke patients who were admitted to stroke units in a Danish county between 2005 and 2010.The examined recommended processes of care included early admission to a stroke unit, early initiation of antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy, early computed tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (CT/MRI) scan, early physiotherapy and occupational therapy, early assessment of nutritional risk, constipation risk and of swallowing function, early mobilization,early catheterization, and early thromboembolism prophylaxis.Hospital costs were assessed for each patient based on the number of days spent in different in-hospital facilities using local hospital charges.. RESULTS: The mean costs of hospitalization were $23 352 (standard deviation 27 827). The relationship between receiving more relevant ...
Hospital Costs in PerspectiveHospital Costs in Perspective
Rising hospital costs have caused concern to the public, Government, and Members of Parliament ever since the start of the National Health Service. They are at present taxing the minds of those responsible for administering the hospitals as they try to contain hospital expenditure within the limits of funds made available by the Government. Nevertheless the problems are not
Trends in Hospital Cost and Revenue, 1994-2005 - RWJFTrends in Hospital Cost and Revenue, 1994-2005 - RWJF
Examining two 5-year periods, one when HMO enrollment was increasing and one when it was decreasing, shows that HMOs had an effect on lowering hospital costs and revenues, albeit a diminishing one. This study looked at trends in hospital cost and revenue relative to different levels of HMO market structure.
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Creator: Kantrowitz, Adrian / Subject: Hospital Costs - Adrian Kantrowitz - Profiles in Science Search ResultsCreator: Kantrowitz, Adrian / Subject: Hospital Costs - Adrian Kantrowitz - Profiles in Science Search Results
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Earlier attention to quality of life reduces hospital costs for advanced cancer patients - ONAEarlier attention to quality of life reduces hospital costs for advanced cancer patients - ONA
Earlier introduction of palliative care for patients hospitalized with advanced cancer is associated with lower hospital costs, according to a recent study.
Minimizing an important part of hospital costs through the optimal allocation of the number of nursing force to different days...Minimizing an important part of hospital costs through the optimal allocation of the number of nursing force to different days...
Introduction: the hospital as the largest health care center of the society allocates a bulk of the sources and credits assigned to the health sector of the country. Several studies carried out by the researchers indicate that the manpower cost of each hospital constitutes over sixty per cent of its resources. Due to the relevance of the personnel in the quality of services provided to the patients and its costs for hospital, determining the number of optimal needed employees of hospital complex departments is a problem; it has not had a specified standard. Therefore, this research has been carried out for reducing the hospital costs to minimum through the optimization of the nursing force allocation using the Linear programming model in the hospital emergency department. This case study was conducted in 2015.. Method: this is a scientific-applied and cross-sectional-descriptive study that has been done in a public health training Centre in 2015; the emergency department was randomly selected as ...
Weekend spine surgery linked to longer stays, higher costsWeekend spine surgery linked to longer stays, higher costs
(HealthDay)-Patients admitted to the hospital on weekends for cervical spine fusion resulting from trauma have a greater length of stay and total hospital costs than their weekday counterparts, according to a study published in the Dec. 1 issue of Spine.
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Trends in Hospital Costs/Utilization - HCUP Fast StatsTrends in Hospital Costs/Utilization - HCUP Fast Stats
This HCUP Fast Stats query path explores nationwide hospital inpatient trends over the last 10 and 20 years. Trends in inpatient stays are provided for number of stays, average hospital costs, length of stay, and in-hospital mortality. Trends are provided overall and by patient age, sex, expected payer, community-level income, and hospitalization type.
PAC hears National Childrens Hospital Cost could reach €2 billion without any Accountability - OBrien | Sinn FéinPAC hears National Children's Hospital Cost could reach €2 billion without any Accountability - O'Brien | Sinn Féin
Sinn Féins deputy spokesperson for Public Expenditure & Reform Jonathan OBrien TD has called on DPER officials to come before the Public Accounts Committee.. This comes after yesterdays Public Accounts Committee during which new details of the National Childrens Hospital cost overrun came to light.. Speaking today, the TD for Cork North-Central, Deputy OBrien said:. "Yesterdays meeting of the Public Accounts Committee brought further light to the mismanagement of the National Childrens Hospital and the resulting cost overruns. "We now know that between June and November of 2018, in a period of 5 months, costs rose by up to €450 million; thats €100 million a month. As yet we dont know exactly how those costs rose. Many questions remain.. "Officials before the Public Accounts Committee made clear that the Department of Health assumed overall responsibility for this scandalous mismanagement of taxpayers money, but attention must now turn to the knowledge and involvement of the ...
Are Facebook user ratings associated with hospital cost, quality and patient satisfaction? A cross-sectional analysis of...Are Facebook user ratings associated with hospital cost, quality and patient satisfaction? A cross-sectional analysis of...
Are Facebook user ratings associated with hospital cost, quality and patient satisfaction? A cross-sectional analysis of hospitals in New York State ...
An inside look at how Horizon used hospital costs - and quality - in plan to change N.J. health care | News | Day Pitney LLPAn inside look at how Horizon used hospital costs - and quality - in plan to change N.J. health care | News | Day Pitney LLP
|p|Michael Furey was quoted in an article, An inside look at how Horizon used hospital costs – and quality – in plan to change N.J. health care, which was published on NJ.com and also appeared in the July 29 edition of |em|The Star-Ledger|/em| under the headline, Reports: Horizon Skewed Quality, Costs on New Plan.|/p|
Improving Healthcare and Big Data CollectionImproving Healthcare and Big Data Collection
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Improving Access to Financial Data on the WebImproving Access to Financial Data on the Web
A strength of the architecture of the web is the central role played by the relationship between names and resources. We propose to leverage that W3C strength, in the public interest. The W3C would create specifications by which information collectors could publish up-to-date lists of the public domain unique identifiers that they bind to entities on which they collect information. The information would include all of the public information that would help users and applications to infer, construct or publish their own relationships among identifiers (experience shows that geographic and postal address information is essential to the mapping process). To take two concrete examples:. ...
Consistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Cross-Sectional Dependence and Heteroskedasticity in Financial DataConsistent Covariance Matrix Estimation with Cross-Sectional Dependence and Heteroskedasticity in Financial Data
Downloadable! This paper provides a simple method to account for heteroskedasticity and cross-sectional dependence in samples with large cross sections and relatively few time-series observations. The method is motivated by cross-sectional regression studies in finance and accounting. Simulation evidence suggests that these estimators are dependable in small samples and may be useful when generalized least squares is infeasible, unreliable, or computationally too burdensome. We also consider efficiency issues and show that, in principle, asymptotic efficiency can be improved using a technique due to Cragg (1983).
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Equifax Confirms Hackers Stole Financial Data, Launches Investigation - ABC NewsEquifax Confirms Hackers Stole Financial Data, Launches Investigation - ABC News
Credit reporting agency Equifax confirmed that fraudulent and unauthorized access to financial files of four high profile people were recently compromised, but the company declined to identify the individuals.
Video - New Dad Tries To Find Out How Much Giving Birth At Hospital Cost - Viral Viral VideosVideo - New Dad Tries To Find Out How Much Giving Birth At Hospital Cost - Viral Viral Videos
Most soon to be parents are so excited and busy with the upcoming birth that they dont even think about the price of the hospital. But as all new parents know, the charges from the hospital can be downright shocking. Vox wanted to find out. This is what happened. ...
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Treatment as a public patient in Victorian public hospitals is free to all Australian citizens and most permanent residents of Australia.
How to Survive Hospital Costs Without Insurance - The Lawful PathHow to Survive Hospital Costs Without Insurance - The Lawful Path
Insurance companies negotiate in secret with hospitals for big discounts on all services, and line-item veto on individual charges. Now you can save thousands of dollars by learning how to take advantage of these secret contracts and apply them to your own bills.
SGR Fix, ICD-10 Delay, Impact on HospitalsSGR Fix, ICD-10 Delay, Impact on Hospitals
For hospitals and health systems, theres some good, bad and ugly in legislation that is moving swiftly through Congress to change how Medicare pays physicians.
Need surgery? Good luck getting hospital cost info | Minnesota Public Radio NewsNeed surgery? Good luck getting hospital cost info | Minnesota Public Radio News
Want to know how much a hip replacement will cost? Many hospitals wont be able to tell you, at least not right away -- if at all. And if you shop around and find centers that can quote a price, the amounts could vary astronomically, a study found.
Need surgery? Good luck getting hospital cost infoNeed surgery? Good luck getting hospital cost info
Want to know how much a hip replacement will cost? Many hospitals wont be able to tell you, at least not right away - if at all. And if you shop...
Good luck getting hospital cost info; study finds answers often elusive and costs vary widely - InfoNewsGood luck getting hospital cost info; study finds answers often elusive and costs vary widely - InfoNews
CHICAGO - Want to know how much a hip replacement will cost? Many hospitals wont be able to tell you, at least not right away - if at all. And if you shop
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A 20-minute Uber to the hospital cost this man thousands -- and Uber support said it was correct - TheBlazeA 20-minute Uber to the hospital cost this man thousands -- and Uber support said it was correct - TheBlaze
There are expensive Uber rides (thanks, surge pricing), and then there is the fare Hisham Salama of Toronto was charged Friday night. Salama went to visit a friend in the hospital - about a 20 minute drive. When he got his receipt on the app, however, he found that drive cost him $18,518, or more th...
How to recover faster from surgery and cut your hospital cost by up to 30%How to recover faster from surgery and cut your hospital cost by up to 30%
Researchers asked 641 patients to walk 12 miles per week before surgery. Nearly 80% of the participants stuck with the program. And they cut their medical costs by 30%.
Statistical Brief #133Statistical Brief #133
Growth in hospital costs from 1997 2009 for the 20 most common inpatient procedures is presented. Hospital cost growth for nonelderly versus elderly patients is compared.
How Much Does Hospital Cost In USA? - okmydoc.comHow Much Does Hospital Cost In USA? - okmydoc.com
The U.S. ranks 15th.No. 8: Australia. … No. 7: Japan. … No. 6: United Kingdom. … No. 5: Germany. Best Health Care System Rank: 5. … No. 4: Norway. Best Health Care System Rank: 4. … No. 3: Sweden. Best Health Care System Rank: 3. … No. 2: Denmark. Best Health Care System Rank: 2. … No. 1: Canada. Best Health Care System Rank: 1.More items ...
Lean Insider: Dont Worry About Hospital Cost Increases; The Patient Will PayLean Insider: Don't Worry About Hospital Cost Increases; The Patient Will Pay
Too many companies justify raising prices by saying that their own costs, usually for materials, have gone up. (Mark Graban at the Lean Blog recently focused on this practice in the auto industry.) That is a bad attitude, partly because it shows no consideration for the customer, and partly because it ignores the possibility that process improvements can reduce expenses and compensate for higher material costs ...
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An integrated cloud offers a more manageable and secure alternative to separate, best-of-breed applications. Sharing HR and financial data provides a deeper view across your business. Your operations will be simplified, streamlined, and better able to react to unforeseen marketplace changes and support sustained growth. By allowing all lines of business to have cross-functional data access, you can get better management and decision-making.. "With HCM and ERP together in the cloud there is no lag time. And you dont need resources to make manual updates to data in both systems to ensure they are in sync." Corey West, EVP, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, Oracle. ...
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Databases assaulted by SQL injection attacks - ComputerworldDatabases assaulted by SQL injection attacks - Computerworld
Hackers are attacking databases in large numbers in an effort to swipe personal and financial data, a security vendor said Wednesday.
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RE: how to secure the whole process? --- How you do it, how to secure it and the amount of security you need is somewhat dependent on your individual needs. There is minor security built in via the password.. but read up on its vulnerabilities do your own risk assessment. Consideration should be given to what type of data is each system, if a VPN is being used, is the help being given over WAN or LAN, if its a server always on listening for connections from a WAN or just a quick reverse connection to quickly help someone. You may prefer to do one thing on a server with financial data that is always one vs something much simpler to quickly help grandma take a virus off her computer that she only stores cat photos on. Google is your friend with keywords such as secure, uvnc , maybe plugin or how to setup a vpn. Many ways and many entries here and elsewhere on this ...
HERC Seminar: The causal effect of adiposity on hospital costs: Mendelian Randomization analysis of over 300,000 individuals...HERC Seminar: The causal effect of adiposity on hospital costs: Mendelian Randomization analysis of over 300,000 individuals...
Estimates of the marginal effect of measures of adiposity such as body mass index (BMI) on healthcare costs are important for the formulation and evaluation of policies targeting adverse weight profiles. Many existing estimates of this association are affected by endogeneity bias caused by simultaneity bias, measurement error and omitted variables. The contribution of this study is to avoid this bias by using a novel identification strategy - random germline genetic variation in an instrumental variable analysis - to identify the presence and magnitude of the causal effect of BMI on inpatient hospital costs. We use genetic variant-level data to undertake much richer testing of the sensitivity of results to potential violations of the instrumental variable assumptions than is possible with existing approaches. Using data on over 300,000 individuals, we found effect sizes for the marginal unit of BMI over 50% as large as multivariable effect sizes. These effects attenuated under sensitivity ...
Increased hospital costs associated with red blood cell transfusionIncreased hospital costs associated with red blood cell transfusion
Background - Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is independently associated in a dose-dependent manner with increased intensive care unit stay, total hospital length of stay, and hospital-acquired complications. Since little is known of the cost of these transfusion-associated adverse outcomes our aim was to determine the total hospital cost associated with RBC transfusion and to assess any dose-dependent relationship. Study Design and Methods - A retrospective cohort study of all multiday acute care inpatients discharged from a five hospital health service in Western Australia between July 2011 and June 2012 was conducted. Main outcome measures were incidence of RBC transfusion and mean inpatient hospital costs. Results - Of 89,996 multiday, acute care inpatient discharges, 4805 (5.3%) were transfused at least 1 unit of RBCs. After potential confounders were adjusted for, the mean inpatient cost was 1.83 times higher in the transfused group compared with the nontransfused group (95% confidence ...
Abstract 3138: Hospitalization Costs for Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients Treated with Endovascular Embolectomy in the United...Abstract 3138: Hospitalization Costs for Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients Treated with Endovascular Embolectomy in the United...
Background and Purpose- It is important to know the costs for hospitalization for endovascular embolectomy patients so that comparisons can be made to payments to hospitals.. Methods- Using the National Inpatient Sample, we evaluated the costs for hospitalization for patients treated with endovascular embolectomy in the United States from 2006-2008. The primary endpoint examined in this study was total hospital costs, and these were correlated with clinical outcome. Hospitalization costs were then compared with Medicare payments for their respective outcomes. MS-DRG 24 was the diagnostic related group code (DRG) for mechanical embolectomy with good outcome and MS-DRG 23 was the DRG code for mechanical embolectomy with major complications. Medicare payments were available at http://www.cms.hhs.gov.. Results- A total of 3864 patients received endovascular embolectomy. 1649 patients were ,65 years old and 2205 patients were ≥65 years old. Median hospital costs in 2008 dollars were $36,999 (IQR ...
Fakultät VII Wirtschaft & Management: Wittenbecher F, ... Röttger J, Busse R (2013): Comparison of hospital costs and length of...Fakultät VII Wirtschaft & Management: Wittenbecher F, ... Röttger J, Busse R (2013): Comparison of hospital costs and length of...
BACKGROUND: Laparoscopic inguinal hernia surgery is increasingly seen as the superior technique in hernia repair. Compared to open-mesh hernia repair, laparoscopic approaches are often reported to be more cost-effective but incur higher costs for the provider. The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of transabdominal preperitoneal (TAPP) and totally extraperitoneal (TEP) repair of nonincarcerated inguinal hernias in men on hospital costs and length of stay (LoS). METHODS: We used routine administrative, highly standardized, patient-level cost data from 15 German hospitals participating in the national cost data study. We compared TEP, TAPP, and open-mesh repair. We conducted propensity score matching to account for baseline differences between treatment groups and subsequently estimated the treatment effect on costs and LoS. RESULTS: Total costs for both TEP and TAPP surgery were significantly lower than those for open-mesh repair (p , 0.0001 and p , 0.05, respectively). TEP repair ...
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Global Financial Data divides the past four centuries of the stock market into four eras: Mercantilism (1601-1799), Free Trade (1800-1914), Regulation (1914-1981), and Globalization (1981-). The stock market was fundamentally different during those four eras affecting equity and bond returns, the dividend yield and the equity risk premium.. During the period of Mercantilism, government favored national monopolies that could trade with the rest of the world. The Dutch had the East India Company (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) and the West India Company (Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie). The French had its own East India Company (Compagnie des Indes) which traded in all parts of the world. England had three companies which dominated their stock market during the 1700s, the Bank of England, the East India Co. and the South Sea Co. In addition to these three companies, British 3% Consols represented the majority of trading in London as Britain funded its wars in the 1700s through debt and ...
Implementation of an Acute Stroke Program Decreases Hospitalization Costs and Length of Stay | StrokeImplementation of an Acute Stroke Program Decreases Hospitalization Costs and Length of Stay | Stroke
There are many ingredients in our stroke project, including a stroke neurologist medical director, stroke nurse, multidisciplinary team, dedicated stroke unit, standing orders, stroke care plan, and experimental stroke protocols. Application of this entire format to other community or academic hospitals may not be feasible, but portions of it could be used at any hospital. Despite the cost and effort required, the dramatic decline in LOS, hospital charges, and apparent costs of short-term stroke care will result in savings to the hospital. At Mercy General Hospital, our charges to Medicare for stroke patients declined $1 621 296 over 3.5 years. More recently, we monitored cost per patient rather than charges and have found lower costs and shorter LOS for patients with stroke standing orders and critical path plans than for those without such plans (unpublished data, 1995).. Other authors have examined the impact of stroke projects on hospital costs. Bowen and Yaste4 reported a 6-month study of ...
In-hospital cost analysis of prostatic artery embolization compared to transurethral resection of the prostate: Post hoc...In-hospital cost analysis of prostatic artery embolization compared to transurethral resection of the prostate: Post hoc...
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CT-guided Vs. Laparoscopic Radiofreqnecy Ablation (rfa): A Comparison of Morbidity and Hospital Cost - SAGES Abstract ArchivesCT-guided Vs. Laparoscopic Radiofreqnecy Ablation (rfa): A Comparison of Morbidity and Hospital Cost - SAGES Abstract Archives
Background: CT-guided radiofrequency ablation (CT-RFA) is presumed to be less morbid and less costly than laparoscopic RFA (L-RFA). CT-RFA, however, has a higher treatment failure rate than L-RFA. This analysis looks at the 30-day morbidity and financial data for CT-RFA versus L-RFA for hepatocellular cancer (HCC) and colorectal liver metastases (CRLM).. Methods: All patients with the diagnosis of CRLM or HCC who underwent CT-RFA or L-RFA at our institution between 2002-2008, were reviewed retrospectively. Demographics, risk stratification and procedural data were analyzed. Hospital financial data was queried for total cost, reimbursement and itemized departmental charges. Patients with CRLM or HCC were evaluated separately.. Results: Twenty-two RFA procedures were performed for the treatment of CRLM (6 CT-RFA; 16 L-RFA) and 15 RFA procedures were performed for the treatment of HCC (5 CT-RFA; 8 L-RFA). For patients with CRLM, there were no significant differences in patient age (p=0.55), ASA ...
Exhibit Tags: technological / Creator: Grubel, Fred / Genre: Memorandums / Subject: Hospital Costs - Adrian Kantrowitz -...Exhibit Tags: technological / Creator: Grubel, Fred / Genre: Memorandums / Subject: Hospital Costs - Adrian Kantrowitz -...
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Pediatric critical care and hospital costs under reimbursement by diagnosis-related group: Effect of clinical and demographic...Pediatric critical care and hospital costs under reimbursement by diagnosis-related group: Effect of clinical and demographic...
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Prolonged acute mechanical ventilation and hospital bed utilization in 2020 in the United States: implications for budgets,...Prolonged acute mechanical ventilation and hospital bed utilization in 2020 in the United States: implications for budgets,...
Adult patients on prolonged acute mechanical ventilation (PAMV) comprise 1/3 of all adult MV patients, consume 2/3 of hospital resources allocated to MV population, and are nearly twice as likely to require a discharge to a skilled nursing facility (SNF). Their numbers are projected to double by year 2020. To aid in planning for this growth, we projected their annualized days and costs of hospital use and SNF discharges in year 2020 in the US. We constructed a model estimating the relevant components of hospital utilization. We computed the total days and costs for each component; we also applied the risk for SNF discharge to the total 2020 PAMV population. The underlying assumption was that process of care does not change over the time horizon. We performed Monte Carlo simulations to establish 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the point estimates. Given 2020 projected PAMV volume of 605,898 cases, they will require 3.6 (95% CI 2.7-4.8) million MV, 5.5 (95% CI 4.3-7.0) million ICU and 10.3 (95% CI 8.1
Factors influencing third party payer costs for allogeneic BMT<...Factors influencing third party payer costs for allogeneic BMT<...
TY - JOUR. T1 - Factors influencing third party payer costs for allogeneic BMT. AU - Griffiths, R. I.. AU - Bass, Eric B. AU - Powe, N. R.. AU - Anderson, Gerard F. AU - Goodman, S.. AU - Wingard, J. R.. PY - 1993. Y1 - 1993. N2 - To assess how payer costs for allogeneic BMT relate to patient characteristics and clinical complications, a retrospective cohort study of 402 persons undergoing allogeneic BMT between 1980 and 1987 at a university-based BMT center was designed to determine total inpatient payer costs, including hospital and physician costs, and number of days hospitalized during the first 180 days following BMT. The average total inpatient payer cost (in 1990 dollars) during the first 180 days following BMT was $208 410. Inflation adjusted inpatient payer costs increased from $227 806 in 1980 to $308 545 in 1983, and then decreased to $156 163 by 1987. In multivariate analysis, inpatient payer costs were strongly associated with occurrence of CMV infection (increase of $53 517; p = ...
Hospital Cost Amongst the Insured Vs Uninsured | My BlogHospital Cost Amongst the Insured Vs Uninsured | My Blog
Most people assume that if they have to go to the hospital that it will be a costly experience. While this thought process has some merit, it becomes a bit more complicated when you consider the disparity in hospital cost amongst insured vs. uninsured. Hospitals charge the highest fees to those who are uninsured. Fees can range from 2 times to 5 times more than those fees charged to individuals who are insured. In fact, those who are insured or those who are on Medicare typically receive discounted medical services. There are instances where hospitals provide self pay discounts. However, many times these discounts mean little or nothing when you consider the initial rate that a self pay individual is charged. When a person has insurance, the insurance companies will often negotiate bills for the insured (if the charged price seems excessive). That being the case, hospitals will typically charge a reasonable price (initially) for those who are insured. On the other hand, if you are not ...
Health-care costing in the Netherlands | BMC Health Services Research | Full TextHealth-care costing in the Netherlands | BMC Health Services Research | Full Text
The Dutch case-mix office (DBC-Onderhoud) has an import role in calculating national tariffs. To do so, DBC-Onderhoud (DBC-O) needs different kinds of information from different sources as building blocks. There are three cost-components for each DBC: a separate cost-component for the total hospital costs of a DBC; a cost for the main medical specialist; and costs for all supporting medical specialists that are involved in treating the patient.. Every medical association estimates the time needed for each DBC to be produced by their specialty. Matched with the total capacity in the Netherlands, this determines the work load per DBC. The Dutch health authority determines the hourly rate for the medical specialists. Medical associations that represent supporting specialties estimate the time needed per care activity to be produced by their specialty. Matched with the total capacity in the Netherlands, the work load per care activity is determined.. Healthcare providers supply production ...
Economic evaluation of a community based exercise programme to prevent falls | Journal of Epidemiology & Community HealthEconomic evaluation of a community based exercise programme to prevent falls | Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
The home based, individually tailored exercise programme resulted in wide ranging benefits for participants receiving the programme. We have reported previously significantly lowered falls risk, lowered risk of moderate injuries, improvements in strength and balance measures, maintenance of physical activity levels and maintenance of falls self efficacy scores as a result of the exercise programme.13 16 Participants in the study also reported a clinically significant improvement in a quality of life measurement-their self assessed physical functioning. Other health benefits of physical activity have been reported.22 Despite the reduction in falls and the fact that falls accounted for just under one third of total hospital costs, there was no significant reduction in healthcare use as a result of the exercise programme. There are a number of explanations for this finding. Firstly, while the exercise programme is demonstrably effective, the falls that were prevented in this study were those ...
Predictors of acute hospital costs for treatment of ischemic stroke in an academic center. | Base documentaire | BDSPPredictors of acute hospital costs for treatment of ischemic stroke in an academic center. | Base documentaire | BDSP
Background and Purpose-We sought to determine predictors of acute hospital costs in patients presenting with acute ischemic stroke to an academic center using a stroke management team to coordinate care. Methods-Demographic and clinical data were prospectively collected on 191 patients consecutively admitted with acute ischemic stroke. Patients...
Controlling rising hospital costs - University of Missouri LibrariesControlling rising hospital costs - University of Missouri Libraries
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Hospital costs per workers comp claim in North Carolina still higher than in most states - 2012 study | Scudder Seguin, PLLCHospital costs per workers' comp claim in North Carolina still higher than in most states - 2012 study | Scudder Seguin, PLLC
A recent study revealed that hospital costs for workers comp claims were higher in North Carolina than they were in many other states.
Hospital Costs Lead to Fewer Bankruptcies Than Thought | Science and EnterpriseHospital Costs Lead to Fewer Bankruptcies Than Thought | Science and Enterprise
An analysis of medical records and financial data show bankruptcies from costs of hospitalization occur less often than anticipated, but health care expenses overall have other long-term negative effects on personal finances.
Identifying pre- and postoperative predictors of cost and length of st by William A. Ghali, Ruth E. Hall et al."Identifying pre- and postoperative predictors of cost and length of st" by William A. Ghali, Ruth E. Hall et al.
Prior studies of resource use for coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery have either focused on a limited number of hospitals or have used charges instead of costs. We used a large statewide database (n = 6791) to study predictors of cost and length of stay (LOS) for CABG surgery. We used linear regression to sequentially model (a) specific procedures performed, (b) preoperative patient characteristics, and (c) postoperative events to determine the relative impact of these 3 factors on resource use. We then used the resulting models to calculate adjusted mean hospital costs and LOS. These 3 factors were all significantly associated with resource use. Postoperative events were the greatest determinant of costs, while preoperative characteristics were the greatest determinant of LOS. Despite risk adjustment for these factors, resource use differed significantly across 12 hospitals (mean cost range, $22,200 to $41,900; mean LOS range, 11 to 18 days), suggesting that some institutions may need to
Patent US20040153418 - System and method for providing access to data from proprietary tools - Google PatentsPatent US20040153418 - System and method for providing access to data from proprietary tools - Google Patents
In certain aspects, the invention features a system and method for providing selected customers of a financial institution with access to secure data. A system embodiment of the present invention may include a computer-implemented market analysis tool adapted to compute, based on a market condition, financial data derived from a publicly available data source for a financial instrument, wherein the market analysis tool is proprietary and accessible only by authorized personnel within the financial institution. In accordance with such an aspect, the system may further include a first computing device configured to: receive, from at least one of the selected customers, a request for the financial institution to perform a predefined function, wherein the selected customer includes a user other than the authorized personnel, wherein the predefined function uses the derived financial data to create a result, and wherein the request is generated at least in part by including an identifier corresponding to the
Module ASB-2510: Accounting Information Systems, Bangor UniversityModule ASB-2510: Accounting Information Systems, Bangor University
An ability to interpret financial data including that arising in the context of the firm or household from accounting statements and data generated in financial markets. The interpretation may involve analysis using statistical and financial functions and procedures such as are routinely available in spreadsheets (eg Microsoft Excel) and statistical packages. It may assume the skills necessary to manipulate financial data and carry out statistical and econometric tests (e.g. estimation and interpretation of asset pricing models; financial modelling and projections; event studies and residuals analysis; elements of time series analysis, such as serial correlation mean reversion, and stochastic volatility ...
Financial Data Collection | Invest SuccessFinancial Data Collection | Invest Success
Do you need to know an easy method of getting cash and having a steady earnings too? What you are able to do is to initially put in your individual money or you may promote for buyers assuring them high return if they make investments by you. A well-written and convincing business plan (and pitch ) presents what you are promoting to traders intimately; but theyre investing in your enterprise, not only a plan.. Republicans offered the 2017 tax legislation as rocket gasoline" for American funding and development, saying that corporations - flush with money from decrease tax rates - would channel money back into the financial system by building factories and workplaces and investing in equipment, which might help companies grow and provide winnings for staff.. Most SBICs, nonetheless, take into account a wide variety of funding opportunities. Financing Proceeds-The SBA has established rules designed to make sure that investment funds which can be used to purchase securities go directly to the ...
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RESULTS A total of 30,266 questionnaires were returned, representing , 70% of all drug-treated diabetic patients receiving medication in the period studied. Of the diabetic patients, 63% were treated by oral medication only, 31% by insulin only, and 6% by a combination of insulin and oral agents. Of the patients in whom diabetes was diagnosed at ≥ 30 years of age, 75% were treated at health centers, whereas , 60% of those in whom diabetes was diagnosed at , 30 years of age were treated at outpatient clinics. The mean annual frequency of visits was 4.0 for patients receiving insulin treatment and 3.3 for patients receiving treatment with oral medications. The diabetic patients used 1.5 million hospital inpatient days per year, which was 13% of the total inpatient days in Finland. Of the inpatient days, 20% were for diabetes as the principal cause, 52% for diabetes-related diseases, and 28% for causes unrelated to diabetes. The direct costs of the health care of drug-treated diabetic patients in ...
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Between 1993 and 2014, 52,011 patients underwent primary AA fusion. Over this period, there was a 111% increase in annual number of primary surgeries performed. An estimated 1372 patients underwent revision AA fusion between 2006 and 2014, and over this time period there was a 6% decrease in the number of revisions performed annually. The 65-84 year-old age group increased as a proportion of primary AA fusions in the US from 35.9% of all AA fusions in 1997 to 44.2% in 2015, an increase of 23%. The mean hospital cost for primary AA surgery increased 32% between 2006 and 2015, while the mean cost for revision AA surgery increased by 35% between 2006 and 2014. Between 2006 and 2014, the mean hospital charge for primary AA surgery increased by 67%; the mean charge for revision surgery over that same period increased by 57%. Between 2006 and 2014, the mean age for primary AA fusions was 60 years, while the mean age for revision AA fusions was 52 years. The mean LOS for both procedures decreased over ...
Dr. Lonna Denny DC | Spine Pain Relief Center - Back Surgery: Too Many, Too Costly and Too IneffectiveDr. Lonna Denny DC | Spine Pain Relief Center - Back Surgery: Too Many, Too Costly and Too Ineffective
Dr. Deyo found the mean hospital costs alone for surgical decompression and complex fusions ranged from $23,724 for the former to $80,888 for the latter. When combined with surgical costs, medications, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), rehabilitation and disability, the average spine surgery case approaches $100,000 or more. The direct costs are astronomical and may reach as high as $169,000 for a lumbar fusion and $112,000 for a cervical fusion.. Fortune 500 companies spend over $500 million a year on avoidable back surgeries for their workers and lose as much as $1.5 billion in indirect costs associated with these procedures in the form of missed work and lost productivity, according to a two-year study by Consumers Medical Resource (CMR). The study, "Back Surgery: A Costly Fortune 500 Burden," found that one out of three workers recommended for back surgery said they avoided an unnecessary procedure after being given independent, high-quality medical research on their diagnosed condition and ...
When Doctors And Patients Share In Decisions, Hospital Costs Go Up - RedorbitWhen Doctors And Patients Share In Decisions, Hospital Costs Go Up - Redorbit
Since the 1980s, doctors and patients have been encouraged to share decision making. Proponents argue that this approach promotes doctor-patient communication, enhances patient satisfaction, improves health outcomes, and even may lower cost.. Yet, a hospital-based study found that patients who want to participate in their medical decisions end up spending more time in the hospital and raising costs of their hospital stay by an average of $865.. The findings, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, came from the first hospital-based study to examine how patients desire to participate in medical decisions affects their use of health care resources.. There are about 35 million hospitalizations each year in the United States. If 30 percent of those patients chose to share decision making rather than delegate that role to their doctors, it would mean $8.7 billion of additional costs per year, according to the study.. "The result that everyone would have liked, that patients who are more engaged in ...
IOM Phase II Report Says Regional Adjustments in Medicare Payments Could Lead to Difference in Hospital CostsIOM Phase II Report Says Regional Adjustments in Medicare Payments Could Lead to Difference in Hospital Costs
A new report released by the Institute of Medicine reveals that following the recommendation of its earlier report could lead to increase in payments.
Cost Management - Improve Hospital Costs | SCP HealthCost Management - Improve Hospital Costs | SCP Health
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Expanding Medicaid Trims Hospitals Costs Of Caring For Uninsured on NewsHub.orgExpanding Medicaid Trims Hospitals' Costs Of Caring For Uninsured on NewsHub.org
St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore, Md., is one of the 131 hospitals run by Ascension Health. Its a not-for-profit, Catholic health care system that treats many low-income patients who cant pay their bills. News on NewsHub.org
End-of-Life Hospital Costs in Cancer Patients: Do Advance Directives or Routes of Hospital Admission Make a Difference?End-of-Life Hospital Costs in Cancer Patients: Do Advance Directives or Routes of Hospital Admission Make a Difference?
Talking with patients about the dying process and the use of life-sustaining technology can be emotionally challenging for all concerned. Helping patients to participate in planning for future health care crises, including ...
Soaring PFI hospital costs are threatening NHS services | Public FinanceSoaring PFI hospital costs are threatening NHS services | Public Finance
The annual costs to the NHS of Private Finance Initiative schemes will soar fivefold from £470m to £2.3bn over the next eight years and could damage services, Edinburgh University researchers claim.
Hospital Cost Improvement StrategyHospital Cost Improvement Strategy
Healthcare costs are on the rise. The latest Health Trends Spending Brief from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) notes that the US spend per capita on healthcare costs has exceeded $10,000 in 2017.
Medicare May Not Cover Hospital Costs If Under Observation | MoneyMedicare May Not Cover Hospital Costs If 'Under Observation' | Money
Just because you have health care coverage under Medicare doesnt mean youre always covered in the hospital. Whats the costly quirk?
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Adult inpatients in common specialties who developed hospital acquired infection (HAI) remained in hospital 2.5 times longer, incurred hospital costs almost three times higher, and incurred higher general practitioner, district nurse, and hospital costs a
Hospital Costs - Love of Life FoundationHospital Costs - Love of Life Foundation
A sweet lady has undergone some pretty intense hospital visits and surgeries the past six months. It has been an up and down battle for her and after many prayers and blessings she is doing so so much better. She is literally a walking miracle!.... Learn more ...
New Study Sees Growing Home Health Care As Key to Saving U.S. Billions in Hospital Costs | FierceHealthcareNew Study Sees Growing Home Health Care As Key to Saving U.S. Billions in Hospital Costs | FierceHealthcare
Jan 18, 2011 13:05 ET PR Newswire NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2011 NEW YORK, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- A nationwide increase in the use of home health care can save the U.S. billions of dollars in
Hot Topics: Palliative Care Lowers Overall Hospital Costs | PCOM LibraryHot Topics: Palliative Care Lowers Overall Hospital Costs | PCOM Library
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Medicare Rx Benefit Could Decrease Hospital Costs, Rep. Stark Says :: Pink SheetMedicare Rx Benefit Could Decrease Hospital Costs, Rep. Stark Says :: Pink Sheet
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Are Facebook user ratings associated with hospital cost, quality and patient satisfaction? A cross-sectional analysis of...Are Facebook user ratings associated with hospital cost, quality and patient satisfaction? A cross-sectional analysis of...
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Hospital CostsCosts and Cost AnalysisHealth Care CostsEconomics, HospitalLength of StayCost AllocationHospital ChargesCost ControlHospitals, UniversityCost of IllnessHospitals, TeachingDrug CostsCost-Benefit AnalysisDiagnosis-Related GroupsHospital Bed Capacity, 500 and overHospital Bed CapacityHospital PlanningHospitalizationCost SavingsInsurance, Health, ReimbursementHospitals, UrbanDirect Service CostsHospitals, GeneralFinancial Management, HospitalRetrospective StudiesUnited StatesInsurance, HospitalizationModels, EconomicIntermediate Care FacilitiesHospitals, ProprietaryMedicareNursing Staff, HospitalAccountingHospitalistsPatient AdmissionAncillary Services, HospitalHospitals, PediatricEconomic CompetitionProspective StudiesHospitals, DistrictPatient ReadmissionHospitals, SpecialMulti-Institutional SystemsCritical PathwaysRecovery RoomOperating RoomsHealth ResourcesInpatientsOwnershipEconomics, MedicalBed OccupancySurgical Procedures, ElectiveHealth Facility ClosureHospitals, PrivateTime FactorsPatient DischargeEmergency Service, HospitalModels, EconometricProspective Payment SystemHealth ExpendituresIntensive Care UnitsAcademic Medical CentersOutcome Assessment (Health Care)Postoperative ComplicationsHospitals, CommunityCost SharingUtilization ReviewCross InfectionHospital DepartmentsHealth Services ResearchQuality of Health CareHospitals, PsychiatricAmbulatory Surgical ProceduresHospital UnitsHospital RecordsSurgical Procedures, OperativeInfant, NewbornRegression AnalysisRisk FactorsLaryngeal DiseasesQuality-Adjusted Life YearsEquipment and Supplies, HospitalTreatment OutcomeDatabases, FactualEfficiency, OrganizationalLibraries, HospitalManaged Care ProgramsCohort StudiesVascular Surgical ProceduresRisk AdjustmentOutpatient Clinics, HospitalSurgery Department, HospitalAmbulatory CareMedicaidMultivariate AnalysisFollow-Up StudiesHospitals, CountyHospitalsInsurance, HealthMassachusettsIncidenceNew JerseyInfection ControlAnti-Bacterial AgentsChi-Square DistributionAge FactorsHospital AdministrationAmerican Hospital AssociationHospital Information SystemsCaliforniaFood Service, HospitalHospitals, MunicipalDatabases as TopicHospital MortalitySeverity of Illness IndexRisk AssessmentNew YorkPerioperative PeriodObstetrics and Gynecology Department, HospitalPatient Care TeamLogistic ModelsSurgical Wound InfectionOutcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)Cardiac Surgical ProceduresHospitals, ReligiousHealth Maintenance OrganizationsEnglandLaryngectomyComorbidityHospitals, MaternityNursing Service, HospitalLaboratories, HospitalColectomyHospital Shared ServicesAortic Aneurysm, AbdominalCardiology Service, HospitalHospital Bed Capacity, under 100BacteremiaHospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299Statistics, NonparametricLaparoscopyQuestionnairesBurnsStrokeHospitals, MilitaryHospitals, VeteransLinear ModelsSurvival AnalysisQuality of LifeGreat BritainEmployer Health CostsHealth Facility SizeCross-Sectional StudiesHealth Care SurveysMedical AuditHospitals, AnimalCoronary Artery BypassAnesthesiaReferral and ConsultationPatient TransferTertiary Care CentersPurchasing, HospitalNurseries, HospitalQuality Indicators, Health CarePsychiatric Department, HospitalPrevalenceData CollectionEmergency Medical ServicesFormularies, HospitalQuality Assurance, Health CareOncology Service, HospitalBlood Vessel Prosthesis ImplantationMedical RecordsState MedicineHousekeeping, HospitalPatient SatisfactionHealth Facility MergerCatchment Area (Health)
Trumps Patient-Friendly Push on Hospital Costs Has LimitsTrump's Patient-Friendly Push on Hospital Costs Has Limits
Assessing the Impact of Drug Use on Hospital Costs - RWJFAssessing the Impact of Drug Use on Hospital Costs - RWJF
Need surgery? Good luck getting hospital cost infoNeed surgery? Good luck getting hospital cost info
Trends in Hospital Costs/Utilization - HCUP Fast StatsTrends in Hospital Costs/Utilization - HCUP Fast Stats
Hospital Costs in PerspectiveHospital Costs in Perspective
Creator: Kantrowitz, Adrian / Subject: Hospital Costs - Adrian Kantrowitz - Profiles in Science Search ResultsCreator: Kantrowitz, Adrian / Subject: Hospital Costs - Adrian Kantrowitz - Profiles in Science Search Results
How to Survive Hospital Costs Without Insurance - The Lawful PathHow to Survive Hospital Costs Without Insurance - The Lawful Path
PAC hears National Childrens Hospital Cost could reach €2 billion without any Accountability - OBrien | Sinn FéinPAC hears National Children's Hospital Cost could reach €2 billion without any Accountability - O'Brien | Sinn Féin
Earlier attention to quality of life reduces hospital costs for advanced cancer patients - ONAEarlier attention to quality of life reduces hospital costs for advanced cancer patients - ONA
A 20-minute Uber to the hospital cost this man thousands -- and Uber support said it was correct - TheBlazeA 20-minute Uber to the hospital cost this man thousands -- and Uber support said it was correct - TheBlaze
Video - New Dad Tries To Find Out How Much Giving Birth At Hospital Cost - Viral Viral VideosVideo - New Dad Tries To Find Out How Much Giving Birth At Hospital Cost - Viral Viral Videos
How to recover faster from surgery and cut your hospital cost by up to 30%How to recover faster from surgery and cut your hospital cost by up to 30%
Lean Insider: Dont Worry About Hospital Cost Increases; The Patient Will PayLean Insider: Don't Worry About Hospital Cost Increases; The Patient Will Pay
Hospital costs and payments - Better Health ChannelHospital costs and payments - Better Health Channel
An inside look at how Horizon used hospital costs - and quality - in plan to change N.J. health care | News | Day Pitney LLPAn inside look at how Horizon used hospital costs - and quality - in plan to change N.J. health care | News | Day Pitney LLP
Good luck getting hospital cost info; study finds answers often elusive and costs vary widely - InfoNewsGood luck getting hospital cost info; study finds answers often elusive and costs vary widely - InfoNews
How Has the ACA Changed Finances for Different Types of Hospitals? Updated Insights from 2015 Cost Report Data | Urban InstituteHow Has the ACA Changed Finances for Different Types of Hospitals? Updated Insights from 2015 Cost Report Data | Urban Institute
Reducing Hospital Costs - The Washington PostReducing Hospital Costs - The Washington Post
Hospital Costs and Resource Use for Children with CHD | CDCHospital Costs and Resource Use for Children with CHD | CDC
Pioneers Promote Technology To Cut Hospital Supply Costs - WSJPioneers Promote Technology To Cut Hospital Supply Costs - WSJ
What It Costs To Stay In A Hospital - latimesWhat It Costs To Stay In A Hospital - latimes
ISDH: 2007 Hospital Medicare Cost ReportsISDH: 2007 Hospital Medicare Cost Reports
Drug Costs Are Target of Long Beach Hospital Pharmacist - latimesDrug Costs Are Target of Long Beach Hospital Pharmacist - latimes
Some costs of National Childrens Hospital completely misestimated - Independent.ieSome costs of National Children's Hospital 'completely misestimated' - Independent.ie
Hospital Mergers Can Lower Costs and Improve Medical Care - WSJHospital Mergers Can Lower Costs and Improve Medical Care - WSJ
Abt Associates to Evaluate Hospital Innovations Designed to Improve Care, Lower CostsAbt Associates to Evaluate Hospital Innovations Designed to Improve Care, Lower Costs
Army Hospital Accused of Reversing PTSD Diagnoses to Cut Costs - ABC NewsArmy Hospital Accused of Reversing PTSD Diagnoses to Cut Costs - ABC News
California Hospitals Compete By Lowering Costs | RANDCalifornia Hospitals Compete By Lowering Costs | RAND
2012 Medicare Hospital Cost Reports2012 Medicare Hospital Cost Reports
Consolidation swells NYC hospitals costsConsolidation swells NYC hospitals' costs
Escalating cost of childrens hospitalEscalating cost of children's hospital
Misdirected Faxes Cost Hospital $387KMisdirected Faxes Cost Hospital $387K
2005 Medicaid Hospital Cost Reports2005 Medicaid Hospital Cost Reports
Measuring defensive medicine costs on 3 hospital services | EurekAlert! Science NewsMeasuring defensive medicine costs on 3 hospital services | EurekAlert! Science News
Hospital Study Finds Wide Disparity In Health Care Costs - Hartford CourantHospital Study Finds Wide Disparity In Health Care Costs - Hartford Courant
Hospital trust to cut costs with finance management systemHospital trust to cut costs with finance management system
Higher Hospital Costs Found for Surgical Patients Who SmokeHigher Hospital Costs Found for Surgical Patients Who Smoke
Open Source Electronic Health Records: A Cost Solution For HospitalsOpen Source Electronic Health Records: A Cost Solution For Hospitals
How Rick Scott And Rick Perry Could Cost Hospitals BillionsHow Rick Scott And Rick Perry Could Cost Hospitals Billions
Strained French public hospital workers protest cost cuts - ABC NewsStrained French public hospital workers protest cost cuts - ABC News
World Health Organization, Hospital CostsWorld Health Organization, Hospital Costs
Government to pay legal costs of inquest after hospitals error | The BMJGovernment to pay legal costs of inquest after hospital's error | The BMJ
When Doctors And Patients Share In Decisions, Hospital Costs Go Up - RedorbitWhen Doctors And Patients Share In Decisions, Hospital Costs Go Up - Redorbit
WOULD ANOTHER HOSPITAL RAISE COSTS AND DRIVE OCCUPANCY RATES DOWN? | Deseret NewsWOULD ANOTHER HOSPITAL RAISE COSTS AND DRIVE OCCUPANCY RATES DOWN? | Deseret News
The Frequent Flier Program That Grounded a Hospitals Soaring Costs - POLITICO MagazineThe 'Frequent Flier' Program That Grounded a Hospital's Soaring Costs - POLITICO Magazine
DiseasesChemicals and DrugsAnalytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and EquipmentPhenomena and ProcessesDisciplines and OccupationsAnthropology, Education, Sociology and Social PhenomenaTechnology, Industry, AgricultureHumanitiesInformation ScienceNamed GroupsHealth CareGeographicals
Hospital CostsCosts and Cost AnalysisHealth Care CostsEconomics, HospitalLength of StayCost AllocationHospital ChargesCost ControlHospitals, UniversityCost of IllnessHospitals, TeachingDrug CostsCost-Benefit AnalysisDiagnosis-Related GroupsHospital Bed Capacity, 500 and overHospital Bed CapacityHospital PlanningHospitalizationCost SavingsInsurance, Health, ReimbursementHospitals, UrbanDirect Service CostsHospitals, GeneralFinancial Management, HospitalRetrospective StudiesUnited StatesInsurance, HospitalizationModels, EconomicIntermediate Care FacilitiesHospitals, ProprietaryMedicareNursing Staff, HospitalAccountingHospitalistsPatient AdmissionAncillary Services, HospitalHospitals, PediatricEconomic CompetitionProspective StudiesHospitals, DistrictPatient ReadmissionHospitals, SpecialMulti-Institutional SystemsCritical PathwaysRecovery RoomOperating RoomsHealth ResourcesInpatientsOwnershipEconomics, MedicalBed OccupancySurgical Procedures, ElectiveHealth Facility ClosureHospitals, PrivateTime FactorsPatient DischargeEmergency Service, HospitalModels, EconometricProspective Payment SystemHealth ExpendituresIntensive Care UnitsAcademic Medical CentersOutcome Assessment (Health Care)Postoperative ComplicationsHospitals, CommunityCost SharingUtilization ReviewCross InfectionHospital DepartmentsHealth Services ResearchQuality of Health CareHospitals, PsychiatricAmbulatory Surgical ProceduresHospital UnitsHospital RecordsSurgical Procedures, OperativeInfant, NewbornRegression AnalysisRisk FactorsLaryngeal DiseasesQuality-Adjusted Life YearsEquipment and Supplies, HospitalTreatment OutcomeDatabases, FactualEfficiency, OrganizationalLibraries, HospitalManaged Care ProgramsCohort StudiesVascular Surgical ProceduresRisk AdjustmentOutpatient Clinics, HospitalSurgery Department, HospitalAmbulatory CareMedicaidMultivariate AnalysisFollow-Up StudiesHospitals, CountyHospitalsInsurance, HealthMassachusettsIncidenceNew JerseyInfection ControlAnti-Bacterial AgentsChi-Square DistributionAge FactorsHospital AdministrationAmerican Hospital AssociationHospital Information SystemsCaliforniaFood Service, HospitalHospitals, MunicipalDatabases as TopicHospital MortalitySeverity of Illness IndexRisk AssessmentNew YorkPerioperative PeriodObstetrics and Gynecology Department, HospitalPatient Care TeamLogistic ModelsSurgical Wound InfectionOutcome and Process Assessment (Health Care)Cardiac Surgical ProceduresHospitals, ReligiousHealth Maintenance OrganizationsEnglandLaryngectomyComorbidityHospitals, MaternityNursing Service, HospitalLaboratories, HospitalColectomyHospital Shared ServicesAortic Aneurysm, AbdominalCardiology Service, HospitalHospital Bed Capacity, under 100BacteremiaHospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299Statistics, NonparametricLaparoscopyQuestionnairesBurnsStrokeHospitals, MilitaryHospitals, VeteransLinear ModelsSurvival AnalysisQuality of LifeGreat BritainEmployer Health CostsHealth Facility SizeCross-Sectional StudiesHealth Care SurveysMedical AuditHospitals, AnimalCoronary Artery BypassAnesthesiaReferral and ConsultationPatient TransferTertiary Care CentersPurchasing, HospitalNurseries, HospitalQuality Indicators, Health CarePsychiatric Department, HospitalPrevalenceData CollectionEmergency Medical ServicesFormularies, HospitalQuality Assurance, Health CareOncology Service, HospitalBlood Vessel Prosthesis ImplantationMedical RecordsState MedicineHousekeeping, HospitalPatient SatisfactionHealth Facility MergerCatchment Area (Health)
HospitalizationManaged careStaysPatientsMedicare2019Private hospitalsMedicalUtilizationDiagnosticAnalysePatientHealth careHospital'sDataOutcomesSurgeriesResearchersOverrunExpendituresServicesEmergencyEarly stroke careExpenditureConcern2016Reduce costsAverageIncreaseAdmissionSpecialists
Hospitalization3
Managed care2
Stays1
Patients6
  • President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday afternoon that calls for hospitals to tell patients how much they charge for surgeries and other services. (yahoo.com)
  • The administration hopes to force hospitals and insurers to reveal the prices that they negotiate for services - information that is a closely guarded secret - and to estimate out-of-pocket costs for patients. (yahoo.com)
  • The AHRQ Confidentiality Statute prohibits the use of AHRQ HCUP data to identify any person (including, but not limited to, patients, physicians, and other health care providers) or establishment (including, but not limited to, hospitals). (ahrq.gov)
  • CONCLUSIONS: Early care in agreement with key guidelines recommendations for the management of patients with stroke may be associated with hospital savings. (au.dk)
  • By developing a payer-specific case mix index (CMI) for third-party patients, this paper examined the effect of hospital case mix on hospital cost and revenue for third-party patients in California using the hospital financial and utilization data covering 1986-1998. (ucf.edu)
  • Over time, the differences in coefficients for CMIs in hospital revenue and cost models for third-party patients have become smaller and smaller although those differences are statistically insignificant. (ucf.edu)
Medicare6
20192
Private hospitals2
Medical5
  • The rest of the hospital and medical fees are charged to you. (vic.gov.au)
  • Most private health insurance funds offer plans that provide a combination of hospital, general medical and extras cover, depending on what you prefer. (vic.gov.au)
  • According to the article, the three hospitals involved in the ongoing litigation-CentraState Medical Center, Holy Name Medical Center and Valley Hospital-are losing millions of dollars a year and are at risk of having to cut services or merge to stay afloat. (daypitney.com)
  • The longevity and reliability of medical devices is a critical consideration for hospitals to remain profitable and provide the best possible patient care. (devicelongevity.com)
  • Even if your treatment is considered an emergency, the hospital will expect payment for treatment costs, including surgeries, medicines, medical supplies, ambulance transportation, and anything else used to treat you and make you well again. (okmydoc.com)
Utilization2
Diagnostic1
Analyse1
Patient4
Health care4
  • Michael Furey was quoted in an article, " An inside look at how Horizon used hospital costs - and quality - in plan to change N.J. health care ," which was published on NJ.com and also appeared in the July 29 edition of The Star-Ledger under the headline, "Reports: Horizon Skewed Quality, Costs on New Plan. (daypitney.com)
  • Recent studies indicate that approaching death, rather than age, may be the main demographic driver of health care costs. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Compared to the US system, the Canadian system has lower costs, more services, universal access to health care without financial barriers, and superior health status. (okmydoc.com)
  • Introduction: the hospital as the largest health care center of the society allocates a bulk of the sources and credits assigned to the health sector of the country. (uliege.be)
Hospital's1
  • Horizon, however, rejected the recommendation and requested McKinsey not consider a hospital's cost of care in making recommendations. (daypitney.com)
Data2
  • You are accessing a healthcare data-related website that provides information on use of hospital care. (ahrq.gov)
  • A random effects panel data two-part model shows that approaching death affects costs up to 15 years prior to death. (ox.ac.uk)
Outcomes2
Surgeries1
Researchers1
Overrun2
Expenditures1
Services3
Emergency2
  • Note that there is no such thing as free hospital treatment in the U.S. All fees have to be paid for either by you or your insurance company, even in the case of an emergency. (okmydoc.com)
  • Therefore, this research has been carried out for reducing the hospital costs to minimum through the optimization of the nursing force allocation using the Linear programming model in the hospital emergency department. (uliege.be)
Early stroke care2
  • BACKGROUND: The relationship between processes of early stroke care and hospital costs remains unclear. (au.dk)
  • The relationship between receiving more relevant processes of early stroke care and lower hospital costs followed a dose-response relationship. (au.dk)
Expenditure2
  • They are at present taxing the minds of those responsible for administering the hospitals as they try to contain hospital expenditure within the limits of funds made available by the Government. (ohe.org)
  • A senior official, indeed the chief procurement officer of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, was both on the development board of the hospital and the finance and procurement subcommittees, with intimate knowledge of the overruns as and when they happened. (sinnfein.ie)
Concern1
  • Rising hospital costs have caused concern to the public, Government, and Members of Parliament ever since the start of the National Health Service. (ohe.org)
20161
  • Abbas Sheikh Aboumasoudi & Ali Sheikh Aboumasoudi , «Minimizing an important part of hospital costs through the optimal allocation of the number of nursing force to different days of the week using linear programming model», Bulletin de la Société Royale des Sciences de Liège [En ligne], Volume 85 - Année 2016, Actes de colloques, Special edition, 1195 - 1203 URL : https://popups.uliege.be:443/0037-9565/index.php?id=5963. (uliege.be)
Reduce costs1
  • Conclusion: the Linear programming model can be used as a useful tool for timing and determining the optimal number of employees needed by the various departments of a hospital and reduce costs to minimum. (uliege.be)
Average3
Increase1
Admission2
  • however, when excluding the costs incurred during the birth admission period, hospital costs of multiples and singletons were comparable. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
  • Among multiples and singletons, respectively, 90.8 and 76.2% of the total hospital costs were caused by hospital admission days and 8.9 and 25.2% of the total hospital costs during the first 5 years of life occurred after the first year of life. (maastrichtuniversity.nl)
Specialists1
  • Americans get coverage from a profusion of different private and public health plans, which contributes to price variation and reduces negotiating power.That's truer when it comes to hospitals and specialists than anything else because health-plan administrators often have to bargain with highly consolidated hospital systems in any given market. (yahoo.com)
Trump's Patient-Friendly Push on Hospital Costs Has Limits
Trump's Patient-Friendly Push on Hospital Costs Has Limits (news.yahoo.com)
Report: Hospital costs fall in Obamacare's first year - CNNPolitics
Report: Hospital costs fall in Obamacare's first year - CNNPolitics (cnn.com)
REVEALED: The breakdown of costs of Addenbrooke's Hospital's £200m Epic IT system
REVEALED: The breakdown of costs of Addenbrooke's Hospital's £200m Epic IT system (computing.co.uk)
A Doctor's MBA Helped Her Utah Hospital Revolutionize Healthcare Costs | Fortune
A Doctor's MBA Helped Her Utah Hospital Revolutionize Healthcare Costs | Fortune (fortune.com)
Telecare for Diabetes, CHF or COPD: Effect on Quality of Life, Hospital Use and Costs. A Randomised Controlled Trial and...
Telecare for Diabetes, CHF or COPD: Effect on Quality of Life, Hospital Use and Costs. A Randomised Controlled Trial and... (journals.plos.org)
An analysis of the direct cost of renal dialysis provided through a public-private partnership at a tertiary hospital in...
An analysis of the direct cost of renal dialysis provided through a public-private partnership at a tertiary hospital in... (samj.org.za)
Plastic Surgery | Cost of Cosmetic & Plastic Surgery | Full Body Plastic Surgery | Plastic Surgery Hospital | Dr. Ed Berzin
Plastic Surgery | Cost of Cosmetic & Plastic Surgery | Full Body Plastic Surgery | Plastic Surgery Hospital | Dr. Ed Berzin (drberzin.com)
Reducing Hospital Costs - The Washington Post
Reducing Hospital Costs - The Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)
Helmets reduce head injury severity › News in Science (ABC Science)
Helmets reduce head injury severity › News in Science (ABC Science) (abc.net.au)
Olympic Torch costs revealed | West Country - ITV News
Olympic Torch costs revealed | West Country - ITV News (itv.com)
First drop in hospital inpatients in 20 years - SWI swissinfo.ch
First drop in hospital inpatients in 20 years - SWI swissinfo.ch (swissinfo.ch)
Medicare targets readmission costs | New Hampshire
Medicare targets readmission costs | New Hampshire (unionleader.com)
100 Top Hospitals | Nation's Leading Healthcare Organizations | IBM
100 Top Hospitals | Nation's Leading Healthcare Organizations | IBM (ibm.com)
Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy (Titles in this series)
Developments in Health Economics and Public Policy (Titles in this series) (springer.com)
House approves bill creating more accountability at VA after string of scandals - CNNPolitics
House approves bill creating more accountability at VA after string of scandals - CNNPolitics (cnn.com)
Duchess Kate in Labor, Goes to Hospital [Video]
Duchess Kate in Labor, Goes to Hospital [Video] (finance.yahoo.com)
Box Hill Hospital coronavirus outbreak that sparked northern Melbourne cases highlights flaws in healthcare system, doctor says...
Box Hill Hospital coronavirus outbreak that sparked northern Melbourne cases highlights flaws in healthcare system, doctor says... (abc.net.au)
Health Payors | Microsoft Industry
Health Payors | Microsoft Industry (microsoft.com)
The Cost of Cancer: Analysis of the Financial Impact of Cancer on Young Adults
The Cost of Cancer: Analysis of the Financial Impact of Cancer on Young Adults (medindia.net)
Drug - Acolate-P Plus (2.5mg/5mg/325mg/60mg) - 10 Tablet (Acetaminophen or Paracetamol - Combination of Generics ) Price...
Drug - Acolate-P Plus (2.5mg/5mg/325mg/60mg) - 10 Tablet (Acetaminophen or Paracetamol - Combination of Generics ) Price... (medindia.net)
Healthcare | Oracle Türkiye
Healthcare | Oracle Türkiye (oracle.com)
Healthcare | Oracle Thailand
Healthcare | Oracle Thailand (oracle.com)
Pioneers Promote Technology To Cut Hospital Supply Costs - WSJ
Pioneers Promote Technology To Cut Hospital Supply Costs - WSJ (wsj.com)
INJURED CADET LEAVES HOSPITAL - Chicago Tribune
INJURED CADET LEAVES HOSPITAL - Chicago Tribune (chicagotribune.com)
Healthcare - Customer Success Stories | Oracle Deutschland
Healthcare - Customer Success Stories | Oracle Deutschland (oracle.com)
Healthcare - Customer Success Stories | Oracle United Kingdom
Healthcare - Customer Success Stories | Oracle United Kingdom (oracle.com)
Measuring defensive medicine costs on 3 hospital services | EurekAlert! Science News
Measuring defensive medicine costs on 3 hospital services | EurekAlert! Science News (eurekalert.org)
Some costs of National Children's Hospital 'completely misestimated' - Independent.ie
Some costs of National Children's Hospital 'completely misestimated' - Independent.ie (independent.ie)
Cleveland Clinic CEO Has a Warning for All U.S. Hospitals | Fox Business
Cleveland Clinic CEO Has a Warning for All U.S. Hospitals | Fox Business (foxbusiness.com)
Illness sends 3 to hospital from Delta plane at Miami airport | Miami Herald
Illness sends 3 to hospital from Delta plane at Miami airport | Miami Herald (miamiherald.com)
About the IUD (for Parents) - Jeff Gordon Children's Hospital
About the IUD (for Parents) - Jeff Gordon Children's Hospital (kidshealth.org)