Evaluating the contribution to a hospital of specific physicians through the use of a financial and social weighting criterion developed on a microcomputer.
This paper will address how a hospital was able to utilize a microcomputer to determine weighting criteria to allocate Medicaid patient days to certain physicians when the State reduced the allowable days by 59 percent. The allocation basis had to address the following: the hospital's mission, financial viability, the impact on its teaching programs and university affiliations and antitrust and anticompetition laws and regulations.
D002641:Chicago; D003164:Competitive Bidding / Q000379:methods; D005376:Financial Management; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D007256:Information Systems; D008331:Management Information Systems; D008484:Medicaid; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D008838:Microcomputers; D010343:Patient Admission / Q000191:economics; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D014481:United States; D014485:United States Federal Trade Commission