Controlling Medical Supply Costs.
Abstract
This thesis project investigated the efficiency of a standard costing system used by the USAF Hospital, K. I. Sawyer to control its medical supply costs. This was accomplished by comparing the costs, productivity, and the unit costs associated with the expenditure of medical supplies to those of a population of like medical treatment facilities. The effects of the K. I. Sawyer system were also compared to the medical care component of the consumer price index for all urban consumers in terms of all medical care commodities and prescription drugs. The analysis was accomplished by defining those productivity factors most representative of the expenditures of medical supplies, defining a population of like hospitals based on the productivity factors selected, and then relating the medical supply costs to the productivity factors. The findings of this investigation indicate that the K. I. Sawyer system was an efficient system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA147665
Entities
People
- B. C. Merkel
- M. Rasmussen
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology