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PubMed2002

Rural hospital wages and the area wage index.

We examined data on hospital hourly wages and the prospective payment system (PPS) wage index from 1990 to 1997, to determine if incremental changes to the index have improved its precision and equity as a regional cost adjuster. The differential between average rural and urban PPS hourly wages has declined by almost one-fourth over the 8-year study period. Nearly one-half of the decrease is attributable to regulatory and reporting changes in the annual hospital wage survey. Patterns of within-market wage variation across rural-urban continuum codes identify three separate sub-markets within the State-level aggregates defining rural labor markets. Geographic reclassification decisions appear to eliminate one of the three. Remaining systematic within-market rural wage differences work to the reimbursement advantage of hospitals in the smaller and more isolated communities.

Health Care Surveys↗

PubMed1979

Government health policy and hospital labor costs: the effects of wage and price controls on hospital wage rates and employment.

This study examines the rapid growth of hospital wage rates and employment levels over the past decade, with particular attention to the period 1971-73, when wage and price controls were in effect throughout the economy. The analysis shows that the hospital regulations under the Economic Stabilization Program reduced real hospital wages below what they would have been in the absence of controls; a similar but smaller effect of the controls on hospital employment levels is also shown. This suggests that if the current HEW proposal for hospital cost containment is enacted, its impact would be a significant decrease in the rate of growth of hospital wages and employment.

Cost Control↗

PubMed1979

Health administration: the war that is waged even after the wage war is over.

Conditions are made in every job. It is quite another exercise meeting them. Galling things like telephone rental money; malignant little ulcers like removal expenses; the kind of friction that ensues when, having been promised the moon, you get a handful of dust. Drew Clode, who last week looked into wage packets, now tests the letter and the spirit of something more abstract if no less realistic: the conditions in which you work and indeed live.

Administrative Personnel↗

PubMed1999

Medicare program; changes to the FY 1999 hospital inpatient prospective payment wage index and standardized amounts resulting from approved requests for wage data revisions. Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), HHS. Final rule.

This final rule implements revised wage index values, geographic adjustment factors, operating standardized amounts, and capital Federal rates for hospitals subject to the inpatient prospective payment system. These changes result from requests made by hospitals in response to a final rule with comment period published in the Federal Register on November 19, 1998. These revisions will be implemented on a prospective basis.

Capital Expenditures↗

PubMed1996