The indicators are in, and hospital utilization is down.
Significant changes have been occurring in the overall economic performance of the nation's hospitals. The director of legislation and regulation for the American Hospital Association discusses what new trends we are seeing in hospital expenses, employment, and utilization, and the extent to which those changes have been influenced by prospective pricing and the development of new concepts of payment, delivery, and insurance by the private sector.
D004651:Employment / Q000639:trends; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000639:trends; D006278:Medicare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States