Revisiting Rogowski and Newhouse on the indirect costs of teaching: A note on functional form and retransformation in Medicare's payment formulas

Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1027-1046

  Dalton, Kathleen ^a   Norton, Edward C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Dept Hlth Plcy Admin Sch P ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Hospital costs; Prospective payment system (PPS); Retransformation; Teaching hospitals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HOSPITAL COST; MEDICARE; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

COST ALLOCATION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; MEDICARE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRAINING SUPPORT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033800666     PISSN: 01676296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6296(00)00062-X     Document Type: Article

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