Cromwell J
Health Care Financ Rev. 1987 Spring;8(3):69-82.
For this article, a new national data base of Medicare's cost reports on more than 2,000 hospitals is used to measure the impact of State prospective rate setting on capital formation. Several investment measures are analyzed, both in nominal and real terms, using a combination of descriptive and multivariate techniques. Results indicate that, over the last decade, State hospital rate-setting programs have had little demonstrable effect on capital formation and they have not caused any significant aging of plant assets. Programs in both New York and Massachusetts were found to be associated with a slowing in the rate of bed growth, however, resulting in significant long-term cost savings.
在撰写本文时,我们使用了一个新的全国医疗保险成本报告数据库,该数据库涵盖了2000多家医院,用于衡量州预期费率设定对资本形成的影响。我们运用描述性和多变量技术,对若干名义和实际投资指标进行了分析。结果表明,在过去十年中,州医院费率设定计划对资本形成几乎没有明显影响,也没有导致固定资产显著老化。不过,纽约和马萨诸塞州的计划与床位增长速度放缓有关,从而带来了显著的长期成本节约。