Price CON - Government Oversight System
A series of studies in the 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s failed
to show that the CON controlled hospital costs. (Michael A
Morrisey, PHD, Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham.)The latest
was published in 1998 (Conover and Sloan)
who found that mature CON
programs resulted “in a slight
(2%) reduction in hospital bed supply
but higher costs per day and
per admission, along with higher hospital profits.” There
was not a significant effect on total per capita spending and it was “doubtful” there was any effect on quality. All information in this slide
presentation is the express opinion of Health Watch USA.