The basic need for hospital cost accounting expands.
Due to the nature of the health delivery process, hospitals can neither control nor accurately predict the daily volume of the patients it will serve. Jim Ryan, marketing manager for CPSI discusses megatrends affecting cost reporting needs and the difficulties involved in hospital cost accounting.
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