Author: [Anonymus AC01304356]
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781568066806
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
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Category : Hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289051525
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on hospital costs and Medicare's ability to provide adequate payments under the prospective payment system (PPS), focusing on: (1) the impact of PPS on growth of hospital operating costs; and (2) factors which have caused persistent increases in hospital costs, including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), malpractice insurance, and hospital administration. GAO found that: (1) hospital operating costs increased 63 percent above the general inflation rate from 1980 to 1989; (2) operating cost rate growth slowed after the introduction of PPS in 1984, but increased to nearly 7 percent by 1988; (3) PPS hospitals receive a fixed fee based on patient diagnoses, which gives hospitals incentives to provide more efficient care; (4) the introduction of PPS has decreased the length of hospital stays and the number of admissions; (5) outpatient visits increased by 39 percent, while inpatient services became more complex; (6) new technologies have led to increases in operating costs; (7) hospital competition based on service rather than price, physicians practicing defensive medicine to prevent malpractice claims, and high insurance coverage coupled with low consumer out-of-pocket expenses are all incentives which cause operating cost increases; (8) AIDS-related costs have permanently increased operating costs, but have had a negligible impact on the rate of cost growth; (9) annual malpractice costs have increased, but have also had a negligible impact on cost growth; and (10) hospital administration cost increases accounted for more than 10 percent of annual operating cost growth.

Author: Karine Lamiraud
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Alan B. Cohen
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472113262
Category : Biomedical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 494

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Offers health care professionals vital information about risks, benefits, and costs of new medical technologies to help them make informed decisions

Author:
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Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author: United States. General Accounting Office
Publisher:
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Category : Health
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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Author:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1070

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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1068

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February issue includes Appendix entitled Directory of United States Government periodicals and subscription publications; September issue includes List of depository libraries; June and December issues include semiannual index

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology
Publisher:
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Category : Biomedical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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