Optimising hospital revenues.
Today's hospital materials manager must search for new ways to reduce expenses and/or increase revenues. In this article the author examines a method of rate optimization for charge paying patients; whereby, departments serving these patients are identified, their impact both measured and optimized.
D000066:Accounting / Q000379:methods*; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D007182:Income; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital / Q000191:economics*; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011907:Rate Setting and Review / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States