Download or read book Hospital Costs in Massachusetts an Econometric Study written by Mary Lee Ingbar and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospital Costs in Massachusetts written by Martin S. Feldstein and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospital Cost Analysis written by J. R. Butler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1995-01-31 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospital Cost Analysis provides an overview of theoretical developments in the economic analysis of production and costs in the multiproduct firm, and discusses these developments. Following a lucid explanation of the concepts of jointness, input/output separability and returns to scale, a detailed discussion of the concept measurement and classification of hospital output is provided. A fundamental dilemma confronting economists interested in estimating hospital cost functions is highlighted, viz. the trade-off between flexibility in functional form and homogeneity within hospital output categories. Empirical results on the effects of case mix, scale and utilisation, public/private ownership, and the centralised administration of hospital systems on hospital costs are presented. The implications of hospital cost analysis for public policy with respect to hospital payment schemes, including schemes based on Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs), are also considered. This book brings together the literature on hospital cost analysis with theoretical developments in the analysis of the multiproduct cost functions. It will be of considerable interest to teachers and students of health economics and health policy advisers interested in the determinants of hospital costs and the design of hospital payment schemes.
Download or read book National Hospital Rate setting Study Case study of prospective reimbursement in Massachusetts written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Investigation of the Impact of the Massachusetts Health Care Reform on Hospital Costs and Quality of Care written by Fabienne Miller and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managers use performance measurement systems to help align the interests of the firm and its agents. We argue that legislation can also provide an impetus to improve firm performance. The legislation we study, the 2006 Massachusetts Health Care Reform (the Reform), includes goals of cost containment as well as quality improvement. Yet, the Reform does not directly provide incentives for hospitals to reduce costs or improve quality. Instead, it makes publicly available hospital quality data as well as insurance costs; thus, helping patients make informed choices. We expect that hospitals with better performance in terms of quality will attract more insured patients, thus improving profitability. Accordingly, we predict that hospitals will be motivated to improve quality but not decrease costs. We study hospital costs and quality for the period spanning 2003 to 2009. To assess the impact of the Reform on costs and quality, we compare the change in Massachusetts hospital costs and quality pre- and post-Reform to changes in a New England state that provides a similar level of quality of care for the same period (namely, Connecticut). Data from acute care hospitals show that there is no evidence that Massachusetts total hospital costs or salaries of departments providing clinical services decreased following the Reform more than in our control state. However, we find that quality of care improved for several quality measures post-Reform to a greater extent in Massachusetts than in our control state.
Download or read book Measuring Hospital Inflation written by Laurence B. Berger and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide for Cost Analysis of Massachusetts Hospital Association written by Massachusetts Hospital Association. Sub-Committee on Cost Determination of the Council on Administration Practice and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hospital Costs and the Cost of Empty Hospital Beds written by Martin Gaynor and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cost of excess capacity in the hospital industry has reemerged as an important policy issue. Utilized capacity in the hospital industry, as measured by the inpatient hospital bed occupancy rate, has declined over the past 10 years and now stands at approximately 65 percent. Congress and the Administration are concerned that the costs associated with empty beds represent wasteful expense and have proposed an adjustment to Medicare payment rates which will penalize hospitals with low occupancy rates. Hospitals, on the other hand, have indicated that the costs of empty hospital beds are low and that reimbursement adjustments are unnecessary. In order to provide more current and representative estimates of the cost of an empty hospital bed we estimate the cost function model of Friedman and Pauly using data from a national sample of 5315 hospitals for the years 1963-1987. We find that empty beds account for approximately 18 percent of total costs, or $546 per admission (1987 dollars) . The estimate (in 1987 dollars) of the coat of an empty hospital bed is approximately $36,000.
Download or read book The Structure of Hospital Costs written by Philip Kemere and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Health Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policies for the Containment of Health Care Costs and Expenditures written by Stuart O. Schweitzer and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Massachusetts Universal Health Insurance Law written by Pamela Joy Byrnes and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Massachusetts Health Care Cost Trends written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Massachusetts health care system is a critical component of the state's economy. Health care is the state's top industry, the largest employer of Massachusetts residents, and accounts for over 13 percent of its $365 billion Gross State Product (GSP). The Commonwealth Fund ranks Massachusetts first in terms of access to care and seventh overall among states on its State Scorecard, which measures health system performance. Massachusetts hospitals are often cited as among the best in the nation in terms of the quality of health care services provided, scoring higher than national average on treatment of major conditions. Furthermore, Massachusetts health insurers are consistently rated among the top ten best plans in each category nationwide. At the same time, Massachusetts is grappling with escalating health care costs, which are consuming a greater portion of the economy and lowering real wage growth. Some of the cost growth is driven by system-wide challenges, such as an aging population and the greater use and availability of increasingly complex levels of medical care, much of which can be uncoordinated. To that point, Massachusetts ranks in the lowest quartile of states for avoidable hospital use and costs on the Commonwealth Fund State Scorecard. However, some challenges, such as those that stem from the structure of the health care market place, are unique to Massachusetts and must be considered when identifying strategies to mitigate health care cost growth. This report examines the factors that contribute to high health care costs in Massachusetts, including the structure of the health care system and the payment methods currently used by Massachusetts health insurers. Understanding these factors will better prepare the Commonwealth to evaluate and develop reforms that have the potential to simultaneously contain cost growth and improve quality. Data describing the Massachusetts health care system are drawn from various published sources. Data on payment methods are based on the results of a 2009 questionnaire administered for the Division of Health Care Finance and Policy, in which Massachusetts insurers documented the ways in which they pay hospitals, physicians, and intermediary organizations (medical groups, Independent Practice Associations [IPAs] and physician-hospital organizations [PHOs]).
Download or read book Expenditures of Two person Units and Individuals After Age 55 written by John A. Reinecke and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rising Cost of Hospital Care written by Martin S. Feldstein and published by Information Resources Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The course of hospital cost inflation from 1950 to 1970 is surveyed and analyzed. It emphasized that a day of hospital care is a product that has been continually changing. The rising cost of hospital care is therefor not comparable to price increases for other goods and services, and should not be interpreted as evidence of inefficiency or a low rate of technical progress. Increasing demand is identified as the primary reason for the unusually rapid rate of cost increase. It is concluded that the current high cost of care does not actually correspond to the basic preferences of consumers, that it imposes a substantial direct and indirect financial burden, and that it may lead to inappropriate changes in the financing and organisation of hospital care.
Download or read book An Econometric Analysis of Costs and Utilization of the Community Hospital in the United States written by Alan Marc Leiken and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Performance Measurement written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2006-07-09 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance Measurement is the first in a new series of an ongoing effort by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to improve health care quality. Performance Measurement offers a comprehensive review of available measures and introduces a new framework to examine these measures against the six aims of the health care system: health care should be safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable. This new book also addresses the gaps in performance measurement and introduces the need for measures that are longitudinal, comprehensive, population-based, and patient-centered. This book is directed toward all concerned with improving the quality and performance of the nation's health care system in its multiple dimensions and in both the public and private sectors.
