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TAPE 22, A

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Calls the meeting to order at 1:04 p.m.  Opens informational meeting on healthcare financing issues for hospitals.

HEALTHCARE FINANCING ISSUES FOR HOSPITALS - INFORMATIONAL MEETING

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Ruth Bauman

Healthcare consultant.  Submits and presents written testimony (EXHIBIT A) and informational graphs on hospital charges (EXHIBIT B).

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Bauman

Discusses how hospital charges are determined in EXHIBIT B, page 1.

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Bauman

Discusses total charges in EXHIBIT B,page 2.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks how capital investments and buildings factor into hospital costs.

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Bauman

Answers that those costs are factored in.  Adds that some hospitals combine total cost and allocate them.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks if Medicare or Medicaid reimburse for capital expenditures or for patients only.

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Bauman

Answers how it can apply to both and limitations.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks what kinds of capital expenditures are allowed.

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Bauman

Answers that equipment is allowed. Offers to return complete information to the committee.

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Sen. Morrisette

Asks to differentiate between profit, not for profit hospitals.

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Bauman

Explains the different accounting for the two types of hospitals.  Discusses how payers determine the amount allowed or priced.

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Bauman               

Continues discussing healthcare financing.  Explains Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG).

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks if Medicaid uses DRG for reimbursement.

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Bauman               

Explains that Medicaid uses cost based reimbursement.  Elaborates.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks if cost-based is higher or lower than DRG.

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Bauman               

Answers that it varies.  Elaborates.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks who uses cost-based reimbursement.

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Bauman               

Answers type A and B hospitals.  Elaborates.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks to confirm that outpatient services are more expensive than inpatient services in hospitals.

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Bauman               

Affirms.  Provides examples.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks for data to support example provided.

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Bauman               

Answers yes.  Continues discussing how payers determine the amount allowed or priced.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks if self payers have a sliding pay scale related to their income.

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Bauman

Responds yes and explains how the pay scale works.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks if the pay scale is public knowledge.

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Bauman

Answers not typically.

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Bauman

Discusses how hospitals break-even if they are paid less than charges.

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Sen. Kruse

Asks if the chart recognizes profit for Medicare.

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Bauman

Answers no.

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Sen. Kruse

Clarifies question

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Bauman               

Answers clarification.

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Bauman

Discusses the difference in hospital financial statements.

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Sen. Kruse

Asks if hospitals can write off all or almost all capital expenditures.

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Bauman               

Answers that she would not know that information.

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Sen. Kruse

Comments on possible rules for regulation.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks if hospitals have the same criteria for reporting charity care.

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Bauman               

Answers yes and explains how.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Clarifies that it includes all hospitals.

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Bauman               

Affirms.

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Sen. Kruse

Comments on Bauman’s testimony about profit from Medicaid and Medicare, but no profit from charity care. Asks how they negotiate charity care.

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Bauman               

Answers.

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Sen. Kruse

Clarifies that what they don’t receive in self-pay is considered charity care.

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Bauman

Affirms.  Elaborates.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Closes informational meeting on health care financing issues for hospitals and opens an informational meeting on Oregon’s acute care hospitals: capacity, utilization and financial trends.

TAPE 23, A

OREGON’S ACUTE CARE HOSPITALS: CAPACITY, UTILIZATION AND FINANCIAL TRENDS – INFORMATIONAL MEETING

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Bruce Goldberg

Director, Health Policy Research Office.  Introduces himself.

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Tina Edlund

Manager, Research and Data Manager, Oregon Health Policy and Research Office.  Submits and presents slide presentation on Oregon’s acute care hospitals: capacity, utilization and financial trends (EXHIBIT C).

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Edlund

Begins discussing background of Oregon’s Acute Care Hospitals.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks what most type A and B hospitals receive.

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Edlund

Clarifies that most Type A and some Type B hospitals are considered critical access facilities and receive 100 percent of reasonable cost from Medicaid and 101 percent reasonable cost from Medicare.

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Sen. George

Asks if there is a relation between reasonable cost and rational cost.

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Edlund

Understands that it is just based on there cost report and varies.

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Goldberg

Adds that that they are Medicare cost reports submitted to federal government.

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George

Confirms that it is on individual hospital basis.

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Goldberg

Affirms with standards.

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Edlund

Discusses hospitals as part of the healthcare delivery system.  Discusses hospitals cost account for 30 percent of the overall Medicaid budget.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks if the 30 percent has been consistent.

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Edlund

Affirms.  Adds since 1995 it has been consistent.

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Edlund

Reviews chart of capacity: Licensed beds per 1,000, Oregon versus Region and U.S. (2003).

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Edlund

Reviews chart of occupancy trends, 1995-2003 and Oregon vs. region and U.S.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Clarifies that with HMO’s advent, hospitals become more efficient and caused the decrease in the number of beds available.

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Edlund

Answers that length of stay declined.

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Goldberg

Clarifies the report chart dates and discusses managed care.

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Edlund

Reviews workforce chart.

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Sen. Kruse

Asks if chart is broken down geographically

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Edlund

Answer no and offers to return information to the committee.

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Goldberg

Adds that report is broken down by hospitals types.

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Edlund

Discusses utilization of hospitals services: top ten DRG’s, Oregon, 2003.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Comments that many services on list involve females and delivery.  Comments on more women using hospitals in the child bearing age and women above.

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Edlund

States that she cannot confirm data.  Points out that utilization of hospital services chart are numbers and not dollars.

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Kruse

Clarifies that normal newborns includes well baby.

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Edlund

Affirms and confirms only initial services in hospital is included.

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Goldberg

Adds why normal newborn is number one on list.

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Edlund

Reviews chart for admissions per 1,000 population and average length of stay (in the hospital).

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Chair

Asks if the health safety commission created in the 2003 session is researching relapses.

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Goldberg

Answers that he is unaware.

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Sen. Kruse

Comments on continuum of care outside of hospitals in Oregon versus other states.  Asks for data on continuum care that is performed outside of hospitals in Oregon, versus other states that perform the care in the hospitals.

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Edlund

States that the office does not have data.  Understands though, that there are not as many end-of-life care in hospitals in Oregon.

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Sen. Kruse

Comments on short stay in hospitals and cost.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Comments on elderly care in hospitals.

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Edlund

Reviews chart for impatient days per 1,000 population.

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Edlund

Discusses measuring financial health.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks if hospitals can invest their profit.

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Edlund

Answers that she is not aware of specific regulations for not for profit hospitals, assumes that they can.

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Sen. Kruse

Confirms the for profit hospitals can.

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Edlund

Affirms.  Explains difference.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Comments on raising money for hospital in her district and adds that money is invested.  Asks if that money is taken into account.

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Edlund

Affirms.  Explains that it is taken in under the total margin.  Discusses what is covered under total margin.

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Edlund

Continues discussing hospital finances

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Chair

Clarifies that the statistics on page 16 of the testimony is for all hospitals.

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Edlund

Affirms.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Clarifies that some hospitals have a profit and others do not.

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Goldberg

Adds that in the report, individual hospital statistics are available.

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Edlund

Reviews chart for median operating and total margins.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Comments on high profits in the mid 1990’s. Asks if the high profit is significant.

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Goldberg

Answers that significance varies by who is looking at the data.

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Sen. Kruse

Comments on ratio of expenses to profits.

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Edlund

Continues discussing median operating and total margins of DRG hospitals.

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Sen. Kruse

Clarifies what is included in the total margins.

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Edlund

Answers clarification.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Clarifies earlier comment that normal business receives three (3) to five (5) percent profit.  Asks if the comment referred to business in general or just for hospitals.

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Edlund

Answer that it is specific to hospitals.  Comments that some DRG hospitals are better than other DRG hospitals.

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Edlund

Continues discussing median operating and total margins for Type A hospitals.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks how Type A hospitals are subsidized.

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Edlund

Answers question.  Explains how most Type A hospitals have communities that have formed health districts, 13 in all, that support and assist hospitals.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Confirms that all of the Type A hospitals have formed health districts.

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Edlund

Answers no, not all.

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Chair

Asks how many Type A hospitals are in those 13 districts.

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Edlund

Answers that she does not have the information.

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Sen. Kruse

States that the taxing authority is very marginal because of the districts.

TAPE 22, B

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Edlund

Continues discussing median operating and total margins.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Confirms that Type B can be with in 30 miles within another acute inpatient hospital.

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Edlund

Affirms.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Comments that they do better than Type A hospitals.

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Goldberg

Clarifies that the statistics are averages.

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Edlund

Discusses chart of payer mix in 2003.

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Edlund

Discusses uncompensated care.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks what the process is for hospitals with patients for billing.

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Edlund

Answers how it depends on each hospital.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Provides example of young male who incurred $5,000 in hospital charges and asks what the process it for the hospital.

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Edlund

Explains the general process.  Adds that it varies per person and if the person is aware of charity care.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks that not all hospitals have charity care.

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Edlund

Assumes that every hospital has charity care.  Continues to explain process.

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Edlund

Continues discussing uncompensated care.

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Goldberg

Adds that everyone pays for uncompensated care in way or the other.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Closes informational meeting on Oregon’s acute care hospitals: capacity, utilization and financial trends.  Opens informational meeting on behind Oregon’s healthcare crisis.

BEHIND OREGON’S HEALTHCARE CRISIS – INFORMATIONAL MEETING

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Liz Stevenson

Senior Analyst, Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  Submits and presents samples of hospital bills (EXHIBIT D) and a report on “Behind Oregon’s Health Care Crisis” (EXHIBIT E).

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Sen. Kruse

Comments on shift of access to services.

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Stevenson

Agrees.  Continues discussing concerns with health care costs.

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Stevenson

Begins slide presentation. Reviews chart on annual percentage expenditure increase in hospital care (1980-1988).

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Stevenson

Reviews chart on Oregon hospital expenditures with all payers

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks if she is has comparisons to other states.

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Stevenson

Answers no, but adds that it is comparing to national average.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Clarifies that in 2002 we were below the national average and in 2003 we were above the national average.

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Stevenson

Affirms. Continues to review chart.

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Sen. Kruse

Asks if length of stay has been factored.

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Stevenson

Answer no, but agrees that it is a factor.

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Stevenson

Reviews chart for per capital hospital expenditures projection from 2005-2025.

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Sen. Kruse

Asks if the population growth of the state was a factor.

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Stevenson

Answers no. Explains the conservative estimate.

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Stevenson

Reviews chart of average charge per Refined Diagnostic Related Groups (RDRG) in the tri county hospitals with the five most common procedures.

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Sen. Kruse

States that he is interested in factoring in demographics.

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Stevenson

States how they used the RDRG’s uses some demographics.

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Stevenson

Refers to EXHIBIT D, page one.  Comments on discounts available.

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Stevenson

Discusses concerns with system hospitals.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks which are considered system hospitals and independent in Portland.

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Stevenson

Provides list of hospitals under each category.

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Sen. Kruse

Asks if some of the administrative overhead be due to the economy scale.

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Stevenson

States that they considered that and how the “lines” are used.

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Sen. Kruse

Comments on education districts and how in larger districts, more administration is necessary, hence larger costs involved.

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Stevenson

Emphasizes that the home office is not included.

TAPE 23, B

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Stevenson

Reviews chart of median operating margins of hospitals (1997-2002).

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Sen. Kruse

Notes that Stevenson’s report does not show updated information.

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Stevenson

Clarifies that the report covers non-critical access hospitals.

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Stevenson

Reviews chart for change in hospital ownership and consolidation over time, acute patient days market share in tri county hospitals.

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Stevenson

Reviews coming reports on charity care construction.

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Sen. Morrisette

Comments on two new hospitals in Springfield and importance of data.

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Sen. Kruse

Points out that there were issues with Eugene’s zoning

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Stevenson

Comments another matrix report that will be in future report.

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Stevenson

Comments on quality in hospitals report.

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Sen. Morrisette

Comments on restrained of trade in a Eugene hospital. Speculates outcome.

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Stevenson

Comments on McKenzie Willamette hospital in Springfield.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Asks Stevenson if she has shared report with Dr. Bruce Goldberg.

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Stevenson

Answers yes.

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Sen. Kruse

Asks for next report to show data sources and what factors were used.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Comments that hospitals are becoming more aware of cost issue and are looking at ways in becoming more transparent.

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Sen. Morrisette

Comments on difference in data sources and personal backgrounds.

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Stevenson

Comments on statistics.

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Sen. Kruse

Comments on statistics and how people can use them to their advantage.

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Chair Monnes Anderson

Comments on agenda for February 25^th, 2005.  Closes informational meeting on behind Oregon’s healthcare crisis and adjourns meeting at 2:45 p.m.