title: Input-output analysis and the hospital budgeting process.
abstract: Two hospitals budget systems, a conventional budget and an input-output budget, are compared to determine how they affect management decisions in pricing, output, planning, and cost control. Analysis of data from a 210-bed not-for-profit hospital indicates that adoption of the input-output budget could cause substantial changes in posted hospital rates in individual departments but probably would have no impact on hospital output determination. The input-output approach promises to be a more accurate system for cost control and planning because, unlike the conventional approach, it generates objective signals for investigating variances of expenses from budgeted levels.
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D006739:Hospital Administration; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014481:United States