| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w3872 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 3872 |
| Hospital Costs and the Cost of Empty Hospital Beds | |
| Martin Gaynor; Gerard F. Anderson | |
| 发表日期 | 1991-10-01 |
| 出版年 | 1991 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Industrial Organization ; Industry Studies |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w3872 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/561205 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Martin Gaynor,Gerard F. Anderson. Hospital Costs and the Cost of Empty Hospital Beds. 1991. |
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| w3872.pdf（320KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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