title: The impact of healthcare reform on hospital costing systems.
abstract: Hospitals should consider five approaches to costing over the next three years as they prepare for reform: Moving from a strategic to an operational cost-finding model. Adopting job costing over standards costing whenever possible. Reviewing working classifications of cost with managers and administrators. Evaluating current cost bucketing definitions and reviewing the expenses assigned to these buckets. Increasing the use of microcosting.
authors.affiliation: St. Helena Hospital, St. Helena, Calif, USA. selivaPG@ah.org
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Selivanoff
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting / Q000379:methods*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D018166:Health Care Reform; D017721:Hospital Costs / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States