Specialty and full-service hospitals: a comparative cost analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the costs of physician-owned cardiac, orthopedic, and surgical single specialty hospitals with those of full-service hospital competitors.

Data sources

The primary data sources are the Medicare Cost Reports for 1998-2004 and hospital inpatient discharge data for three of the states where single specialty hospitals are most prevalent, Texas, California, and Arizona. The latter were obtained from the Texas Department of State Health Services, the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Additional data comes from the American Hospital Association Annual Survey Database.

Study design

We identified all physician-owned cardiac, orthopedic,

SUBMITTER: Carey K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2654166 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature