... denied voluntary admission to a state hospital prior to the killing, resulted in an increase in involuntary admissions in the county where it occurred a full year before the standards were revised. The law itself had the effect of increasing commitments throughout the state, reducing the levels...

... separate regression equations for total margin, operating margin, net revenue per admission, and expense per admission. We examined data for 201 Pennsylvania hospitals and found that hospital profits were inversely related to the severity of illness index. Expense per admission was positively related...

...Roger Feldman; Bryan Dowd; Don McCann; Allan Johnson In this study we explore whether HMO-induced competition has contained expenditures in Minneapolis/St. Paul hospitals. Specifically, we assessed the impact of HMOs on revenue, cost, and net income per admission in Twin Cities hospitals from 1979...

... analysis is used to control for selected variables that also influence utilization of hospital care. Cities with public hospitals were found to provide between 31 and 34 uncompensated adjusted admissions per 100 uninsured poor; in cities without a public hospital, 24 such admissions were provided...

..., and thus may both reduce barriers to compensation and increase disclosure of error. Little evidence, however, is available on the performance of such systems. This article reports on the analysis of two data sources—a sample of hospital admissions and a complete set of compensation claims for medical...

... of proxy measures for efficiency, including expenses per admission and labor productivity (full-time-equivalent employees per outpatient-adjusted admission). Non-CAH rural hospitals had a stronger correlation between cost inefficiency and operating margin than CAH facilities did. 2010 Aigner, D., K...

... admissions would have been provided to the uninsured in a typical year. Many of these newly purchased admissions were for “nondiscretionary” medical care, suggesting that beneficial care to the indigent was rationed prior to the introduction of the uncompensated care pools. How Do Uncompensated...

... of society-wide, third-party reimbursement produced conflicts with doctors over admission to practice, work rules, and pay in all countries. Eventually new arrangements were made to settle conflicts of interest and to ensure the harmonious operation of health care services. Policymakers and financial...

... recent of several attempts to expand EU powers over member state policy with the goal of austere budgeting, and one that has led to remarkable claims of authority by the EU over member state health policies as detailed as medical school admissions and the role of primary care. It is expected...

...Martha S. Swartz This article examines whether hospitals should obtain specific informed consent for HIV testing in addition to the general consent for routine procedures that is obtained upon admission. The article argues that specific consent should be obtained in all instances in which the HIV...

...) reduction in bed supply but higher costs per day and per admission, along with higher hospital profits. CON regulations generally have no detectable effect on diffusion of various hospital-based technologies. It is doubtful that CON regulations have had much effect on quality of care, positive or negative...

... inefficiently, with little attention to appropriateness of admissions, lengths of stay, ambulatory treatment modalities, or varying levels of care. Public sector goals for the 1990s should include filling current shortages in drug treatment services, developing adequate long-term funding for treating addicts...

... about adverse events generated from a representative survey of public hospital admissions in New Zealand and classifies these under a range of eligibility criteria for different possible compensation systems. These are then evaluated according to a number of policy design considerations, using variables...

...Naoki Ikegami Case-mix-based payment was developed for hospital chronic care units in Japan to replace the flat per diem rate and encourage the admission of patients with higher medical acuity and was part of a policy initiative to make the tariff more evidence based. However, although the criteria...

... always access it. The state sees the problem as a lack of beds or information about beds, but people on the ground face real barriers that make it difficult to get treatment, including the medical model of detoxification, admissions criteria, staff shortages, and other life complications. Conclusions...

... of nursing homes in 2000 took place in the South and West. Average nursing-home case-mix acuity for African Americans and Caucasians were essentially identical, suggesting that shifts in payment incentives have eliminated the selective admission of easy-care private-pay (predominantly Caucasian) patients...

... payers at admission (U.S. GAO 1979). Minnesota data from 1977-79 suggested that perhaps a quarter of Medicaid patients had been private payers at admission (U.S. GAO 1983). More recently, Burwell et al. (1989) used Michigan Medicaid claims data to analyze Medicaid spend-down. Approximately one...

.... Eby & Cohodes Rate-Setting 301 Briefly, the evidence suggests that, where they have been tried, rate-setting pro- grams have generally constrained per diem or per admission hospital costs; there is less evidence that per capita hospital costs have been constrained, and no direct evidence...

... trends in admissions to state mental hospitals between 1970 and 1980 to the work experiences of poor men during this decade. We will then argue how in an inclusionary system of care problems of treatment and problems of living are indissolubly linked. We will illustrate that argument with two...