Land, buildings, and equipment acquisitions in U.S. hospitals: A fifteen-year perspective.

ABSTRACT: Hospitals acquire and maintain long-term operating assets such as land, buildings, and equipment. In this study, we analyzed hospitals' long-term assets acquisitions data extracted from the Medicare Cost Report, a mandatory annual filing for all Medicare-certified hospitals. The first objective of this study is to examine the time trend of land, buildings, and equipment acquisitions of all general acute care hospitals in the U.S. from 2005 to 2019 to understand the relative magnitude and temporal changes for the operating assets. The second objective is to examine the 15-year accumulated acquisitions of land, buildings, and equipment per capita in each state to understand the variations of potential access to hospital operating resources across states. To understand the longitudinal change

SUBMITTER: Qi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9352055 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature