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| rdf:type | |
| lifeskim:mentions | |
| pubmed:issue |
1
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1992-1-30
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| pubmed:abstractText |
The continued rise of health care costs, despite private and governmental control efforts, has sustained cost containment as a central issue for health care researchers and policy makers. In keeping with these concerns, the Florida Health Care Cost Containment Board conducted a study of neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Florida to ascertain the costs, charges, and net revenues associated with NICU services in individual hospitals, to document cost shifting and cross-subsidization as a means of financing NICU care for indigent populations, and to assess the fiscal impact of NICUs in state-sponsored vs non-state-sponsored Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Center hospitals providing NICU care. Hospitals in the state-sponsored program reported a loss of approximately $16.5 million in contrast to the non-state-sponsored hospitals, which reported a gain of $1 million. Payment being generated by private-pay patients amounted to almost 60% of total revenues but constituted less than one third of the costs in state-sponsored hospitals, indicating a high level of cost shifting. Government support of state-sponsored NICUs, while substantial, has been insufficient; increasing constraints on this funding source would likely worsen the deficit and increase the necessity of cost shifting.
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| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
AIM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Jan
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| pubmed:issn |
0031-4005
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
89
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
56-61
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2004-11-17
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| pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Ancillary Services, Hospital,
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Cost Allocation,
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Diagnosis-Related Groups,
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Financing, Government,
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Florida,
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Health Care Costs,
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Hospitals, State,
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Infant, Newborn,
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Intensive Care Units, Neonatal,
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Length of Stay,
pubmed-meshheading:1728023-Patient Admission
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| pubmed:year |
1992
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Covering the costs of care in neonatal intensive care units.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
Institute for Health and Human Services Research, Florida State University, Tallahassee 32310.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article
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