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Outlines:
The cost definition. The types of nursing costs.
Outlines:
The activity based costing steps. The levels of cost hierarchy. The stages of cost effectiveness and containment. The approaches to control health care cost. The definition of managed care.
costs.
The definition of costing out nursing services. The benefits of costing out nursing services.
Outlines:
The methods for costing out nursing services.
productively.
The implication of cost effectiveness and efficiency in
Introduction:
The cost of health care delivery is growing at an outstanding rate as a result of availability of more health care facilities, increase in number of health care providers, as well as application of expensive new technology in the care domain.
the cost of health care occur from excess demand and spending on health care with an insufficient supply of goods and services to accommodate the demand.\
Cost push theory of inflation: this theory suggests that higher prices
result from the rising costs within the health care business. .
costs within a specified budget; restraining expenditures to meet organizational or project financial targets.
ignore.
Competent counsel is essential.
Management can strengthen discipline or adherence the
rules.
Justice or equal enforcement on all.
information about the expenses of equipment and personal should be available as a basis for decision.
Dispatching or production scheduling is recommended. Standardized schedules.
Standardized conditions.
of.
Written instructions.
of tasks.
that are performed during the course of the day such as the
provision of patient care, production of financial statements or scheduling patient care visits.
Unit-level costs
Businesslevel cost
Batch-level costs
Enterpriserelated cost
cost objectives based on characteristics associated with the patient. Examples include per unit visit for labor, patient identifiable supplies and equipment.
Batch-level costs: include all the supporting services that are
relationship to the patient care. Example include accounting activities, recruitment, interest expense and marketing.
Enterprise-related cost: it is usually has no relation to cost
Cost awareness
Cost monitoring
Cost management
Cost incentives:
Cost avoidance
Cost reduction
Cost control
practical
use of personal, material and physical resources for maximum productivity. It focuses on what can be done by whom to contain costs.
Cost incentives: It motivate cost containment and reward
desired behavior.
services, the amount of reduction depend on the size of the agency, previous, efficiency, skills of mangers and cooperation
of employees.
require appropriate use of resources by clinicians: preauthorization is the requirement that specified services, such as hospitalization or emergency room care be approved
maximizing profits.
Nursing can be viewed as a revenue-generating center
reimbursement costs
Cont. The methods for costing out nursing services (remove this method) :
Cost per Relative Intensity Measures: (RIM) It is calculated by
dividing the total nursing costs for hospital by the total minutes of care estimated or nursing resource used to provide care to all
equation.
components.
number of classification and time taken to deliver care can be consistent with the service offered.
The calculation must make provision for the utilization of
norms established for each task. The average level of the worker
doing the task also determined. when the average time of each
of them known direct costs of labor are determined and added to cost materials. Calculation by knowing the specific tasks performed on a unit on a given day.
admission programs.
control system.
effective care and as a critical contributor to decision making on health care spending.
Offering nurses educational opportunities to gain knowledge of
include the role of nurses in resource management, decision making and policy development.
services department.
Establishing valid and reliable patient classification system. Planning the beat use time by cutting down all time wasting
cost effectiveness.
Employee orientation increase employee socialization to the
The summary :
The cost effectiveness is ready to receive manuscripts on all aspects of economic evaluation in health care and also encourages submissions on health policy Issues relating to resource allocation and the trade-offs between economic, ethical and social criteria for decision-making. The cost efficiency for a media schedule, refers to the relative balance of effectively meeting reach and frequency goals at the lowest price.