title: Tight margins lead hospitals to cost accounting systems.
abstract: Hospital margins are getting tighter, and healthcare executives are realizing that they can't afford not to know whether payments for care are covering their costs. And they're realizing that without some type of cost accounting system, they probably don't have a true understanding of what their costs are.
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Nemes
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting / Q000379:methods*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods*; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States