State Regulation and Hospital Costs Wayne State University韦恩州立大学国家管制与医院成本.pptVIP

State Regulation andHospital Costs John J. Antel, Robert L. Ohsfelt, Edmund R. Becker The Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 77, No. 3 (Aug. 1995), p. 416 – 422 presented by Susanne Buesselmann, April 2004 Purpose of the Paper This paper analyzes the hospital regulation experience of state and federal governments over the last 20 years. They tried to contain hospital costs through various regulations on both state and federal level. Three measures of state-level average hospital costs are analyzed as follows: Cost per patient day Cost per admission Cost per capita Earlier Studies Two