Financial modeling for hospital materials managers.
During the 10 years preceding the era of prospective payment, hospital materials managers (in response to pressure from clinical areas) bought more and more disposables to replace items that once were assembled by the central supply department. As a consequence, nearly 60% of the output of today's typical central supply department consists of distributing prepackaged disposables with the only "value-added" being the attachment of a patient charge sticker for reimbursement from the patient's insurance company.
D003120:Colorado; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D004209:Disposable Equipment / Q000191:economics*; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D014481:United States