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Descriptor
English
:
Hospital Costs
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Costos de Hospital
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Custos Hospitalares
Tree Number:
N03.219.151.400.687
N03.219.262.500
N05.300.375.500
Definition
English
:
The expenses incurred by a hospital in providing care. The
hospital costs
attributed to a particular
patient care
episode include the direct costs plus an appropriate proportion of the overhead for administration, personnel, building
maintenance
,
equipment
, etc.
Hospital costs
are one of the factors which determine
HOSPITAL CHARGES
(the price the hospital sets for its services).
Indexing Annotation
English
:
expenses incurred by hosp in providing services: do not confuse with
HOSPITAL CHARGES
, prices for services; DF: HOSP COSTS
History Note
English
:
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Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
CL
classification
ES
ethics
HI
history
LJ
legislation & jurisprudence
OG
organization & administration
ST
standards
SN
statistics & numerical data
TD
trends
UT
utilization
Record Number:
31403
Unique Identifier:
D017721
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