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

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

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

Christopher P Childers 1, Jill Q Dworsky 1, Marcia M Russell 1, Melinda Maggard-Gibbons 1

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• PMID: 30892567
 
• PMCID: PMC6584708
 
• DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.0146

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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.

Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported

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