Hospital, employment, and price indicators for the health care industry: third quarter 1996

Recent trends in health care spending, employment, and prices are tabulated. Key findings include: 1. Hospital admissions and the number of inpatient hospital days both fell in the 3rd quarter of 1996, indicating the trend toward decreased inpatient hospital use is continuing. 2. Medical price growt...

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Published in:Health care financing review 1997, Vol.18 (3), p.231-273
Main Authors: Sensenig, A L, Heffler, S K, Donham, C S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Business indicators
Calendars
Consumer Price Index
Data Collection
Economic indicators
Economic statistics
Economics - trends
Employment
Employment - statistics & numerical data
Employment - trends
Fees, Medical - statistics & numerical data
Fees, Medical - trends
Fiscal years
Health care expenditures
Health Care Indicators
Health care industry
Health care policy
Hospitals
Hospitals, Community - economics
Hospitals, Community - statistics & numerical data
Legislation
Length of stay
Length of Stay - statistics & numerical data
Length of Stay - trends
Medicare
Medicare - economics
Medicare - statistics & numerical data
Patient Admission - statistics & numerical data
Patient Admission - trends
Patient admissions
Population
Private Sector - economics
Producer Price Index-US
Prospective payment systems
Salaries and Fringe Benefits - statistics & numerical data
Salaries and Fringe Benefits - trends
Statistical data
Trends
Trust funds
United States
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Summary:Recent trends in health care spending, employment, and prices are tabulated. Key findings include: 1. Hospital admissions and the number of inpatient hospital days both fell in the 3rd quarter of 1996, indicating the trend toward decreased inpatient hospital use is continuing. 2. Medical price growth, as measured by the Consumer Price Index, continued to decelerate in the 3rd quarter, converging near overall price growth. 3. Outlays from the Medicare trust funds grew less rapidly in the fiscal year ending in September 1996 than in the preceding fiscal year.
ISSN:0195-8631
1554-9887