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3083160

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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1986-5-15
pubmed:abstractText
Prospective payment for inpatient hospital care is based on the ideal that hospitals that produce similar outputs, as measured by the types of cases the hospital treats, should be paid similar prices. However, similar output is a multidimensional concept. Thus operationalization of this ideal will ultimately require a more complex framework for determining hospital payment rates than currently employed at either the federal or state level. This article illustrates a multidimensional approach to achieve this objective. This technique, called Grade of Membership, is used to generate a unique type of hospital group and to characterize individual hospitals in terms of their degree of similarity to these groups. In addition, a new concept of grouping is described, a variable set based on hospitals' internal cost structure is developed and used, and ordinary least squares regression is employed to compute prices for these groups. With the use of simulation analysis, these groups are compared with more conventional groups.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0025-7079
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
283-300
pubmed:dateRevised
2000-12-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1986
pubmed:articleTitle
A multivariate approach for classifying hospitals and computing blended payment rates.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article