Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 191, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1929 — Page 13

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CAREFUL STUDY MADE TO CUT HOSPITAL COST Changes in Systems May Be Decided On to Help Poorer Patients. By Science Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. A definite trend toward increasing accommodations and lowering costs In hospitals, designed for the benefit of patients of moderate means, was observed in a study of hospital service just completed by Dr. Niles Carpenter of the committee on the cost of medical care. Whether the patient of moderate means will be able to pay for his hospital care if all hospitals adopt these new policies can not be stated A satisfactory answer to this question will be forthcoming after a few more years’ experience with the new policies. Dr. Carpenter prophesied. The study was based on conditions In 270 hospitals. In 1908 almost one-third of the beds in the hospitals studied * ’ere in large wards. In 1928 less than onetenth were in such wards. The proportion of beds in semi-privat o rooms increased over the same twenty-year period from one-tenth of the total number to almost onequarter of the total, the committee found. Plan Different Buildings Special provisions for patients of moderate means now? are included in building plans of many hospitals studied. Twenty-one institutions plan new buildings primarily for use of such patients. The Massachusetts General hospital at Boston plans anew "hospital for people of moderate means” of 300 beds, with rates varying from $8.50 a day for single rooms to $4 a day for cubicles Prices most frequently charged for beds In semi-private rooms range from $5 to $6.99 a day and for beds in small wards from $3 to $4.99. the committee found. Only onefifth of the beds In Single rooms can be obtained for less than $5 ? day; whiin about three-fourths of the beds in semi-private rooms ani almost all of those in small wards are priced at less than $5. In the matter of extra service charges, such as for laboratory, X-ray, special nursing, operatin'; room and anesthesia, the hospitals are working out various plans for lightening the burden these often place on patients of moderate means. Some hospitals are graduating these charges, some are eliminating them and some are placing them on a flat rate basis. Try Installment Idea Hospitals also are trying to make financial utments by which the total chap e are reduced or placed on a defevr? '' ,>r installment basis ol payment ier patients of moderate means. Tucse arrangements are made after careful, tactful in•vestigatiun of the patient's resources and financial status. Finally, in some hospitals a fixed limit is placed on the fee which the pliy:.: .an charges his patients cf moder nie circumstances. In ether hospitals an informal understanding exists between physician and hospital to much the same effect. Rain measuring four and a half Indies fell during a thunderstorm which broke over Kensington, London, in 1917, while other parts of the English metropolis were not affected.

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