The effect of health payment reforms on cost containment in Taiwan hospitals: the agency theory perspective [0.03%]
委托代理理论视角下医药付费改革对台湾地区住院费用的影响研究
Li Chang
Li Chang
This study aims to determine whether the Taiwanese government's implementation of new health care payment reforms (the National Health Insurance with fee-for-service (NHI-FFS) and global budget (NHI-GB)) has resulted in better cost containm...
Mei Zhao,D Rob Haley
Mei Zhao
Litigation activity against Florida's nursing home providers increased dramatically over the past two decades. This has been a significant concern for policy makers and nursing home administrators as they attempt to balance the realities of...
Teleradiology: friend or foe? What imaging's now indispensable partner means for radiology's future and for the quality of care [0.03%]
远程放射学：朋友还是敌人？不可缺失的影像学搭档意味着放射学的未来以及医疗质量会走向何方？
PollyBeth Hawk
PollyBeth Hawk
Over the past half decade, teleradiology companies have served as invaluable business partners to local radiology providers grappling with declining reimbursements, shrinking budgets, and an imaging utilization explosion that has rendered w...
The courthouse doors do not close: constitutional challenges to non-economic damage caps [0.03%]
法院不会关门：非经济损害赔偿封顶的宪法挑战
Ramona Bashshur
Ramona Bashshur
Following efforts at addressing health care reform that spanned decades, the US Congress passed massive health reform legislation in 2010, with key provisions to be implemented over the next few years. This legislation has been heralded as ...
Measuring the profitability of a hospital pulmonary function laboratory: a case study [0.03%]
医院肺功能实验室获利能力的测定：个案研究
Mehmet C Kocakülâh,Jan Taylor Morris,Brian Kessler
Mehmet C Kocakülâh
The primary purpose of this article is to evaluate a proposal for a regional hospital to create a second Pulmonary Function Test laboratory (PFT lab) for outpatients. We separated the PFT lab from its departmental budget, thereby allowing a...
Sandra J Winterhalter
Sandra J Winterhalter
The US hospital service price structures are complex and tend to be significantly higher than the actual cost to provide the service. Health care consumers have been given more authority to drive health care decisions. Transparency in healt...
Do hospital chief executive officers extract rents from Certificate of Need laws? [0.03%]
医院首席执行官是否从医疗需求证书制度中获取租金？
Traci L Eichmann,Rexford E Santerre
Traci L Eichmann
Prior research suggests that Certificate of Need (CON) laws reduce competition in the hospital services industry. As a result, this study empirically investigates if not-for-profit hospital chief executive officers (CEOs) are able to extrac...
Cost-volume-profit analysis and expected benefit of health services: a study of cardiac catheterization services [0.03%]
心血管病诊疗的成本-效用分析及预期效益研究——以心脏导管检查服务为例
Mustafa Z Younis,Samer Jabr,Pamela C Smith et al.
Mustafa Z Younis et al.
Aim: Academic research investigating health care costs in the Palestinian region is limited. Therefore, this study examines the costs of the cardiac catheterization unit of one of the largest hospitals in Palestine. We fo...
Revisiting the cost of medical student education: a measure of the experience of UT Medical School-Houston [0.03%]
重温医学生教育的成本：休斯顿UT医学院经历的衡量标准
Elizabeth Gammon,Luisa Franzini
Elizabeth Gammon
This study uses a cost construction model to estimate the cost of a four-year undergraduate medical education at the University of Texas-Houston Medical School (UT-Houston) in 2006-2007 compared to 1994-1995. The model computes the cost by ...
Cigarette taxes and respiratory cancers: new evidence from panel co-integration analysis [0.03%]
基于面板协整分析的新证据：烟草税与呼吸系统癌症的关系
Echu Liu,Wei-Choun Yu,Hsin-Ling Hsieh
Echu Liu
Using a set of state-level longitudinal data from 1954 through 2005, this study investigates the "long-run equilibrium" relationship between cigarette excise taxes and the mortality rates of respiratory cancers in the United States. Statist...