Comparison of Cost Center-Specific vs Hospital-wide Cost-to-Charge Ratios for Operating Room Services at Various Hospital Types

Christopher P Childers; Jill Q Dworsky; Marcia M Russell; Melinda Maggard-Gibbons

doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2019.0146

Comparison of Cost Center-Specific vs Hospital-wide Cost-to-Charge Ratios for Operating Room Services at Various Hospital Types

JAMA Surg. 2019 Jun 1;154(6):557-558. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.0146.

Authors

Christopher P Childers¹, Jill Q Dworsky¹, Marcia M Russell¹, Melinda Maggard-Gibbons¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

Abstract

This analysis estimates differences associated with using general hospital-wide cost-to-charge ratios vs cost center–specific cost-to-charge ratios for operating room services and discusses whether this bias varies by hospital type.

Publication types

Comparative Study
Multicenter Study
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Cost Savings
Hospital Charges / statistics & numerical data*
Hospital Costs / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Operating Rooms / economics*
Operating Rooms / supply & distribution
Retrospective Studies
United States

Abstract

Publication types

MeSH terms

Grants and funding