Policy implications of fixed-to-total-cost ratio variation across rural and urban hospitals.
Abigail R BarkerA Clinton MacKinneyTimothy D McBridePublished in: The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association (2023)
Overall, these results suggest that hospital payment policy and payment model development should consider hospital fixed-to-total-cost ratios particularly in settings where economies of scale are unattainable, and where the hospital provides a sense of security to the community it serves.