TY - JOUR
T1 - The mobile hospital technology industry
T2 - Focus on the computerized tomography scanner
AU - Hartley, David
AU - Moscovice, Ira
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - This study of firms offering mobile hospital technology to rural hospitals in eight northwestern states found that several permanently parked computerized tomography (CT) units were found where mobile routes had atrophied due to the purchase of fixed units by former mobile CT hospital clients. Based on a criterion of 140 scans per month per unit as a threshold of profitable production, units owned by larger firms (those that operate five or more units) were more likely to be profitable than units owned by smaller firms (71% versus 20%, P=0.03). A substantial number of rural hospitals lose money on mobile CT due to low Medicare reimbursement. In some areas, mobile hospital technology is a highly competitive industry. Evidence was found that several firms compete in some geographic areas and that some firms have lost hospital clients to competing vendors.
AB - This study of firms offering mobile hospital technology to rural hospitals in eight northwestern states found that several permanently parked computerized tomography (CT) units were found where mobile routes had atrophied due to the purchase of fixed units by former mobile CT hospital clients. Based on a criterion of 140 scans per month per unit as a threshold of profitable production, units owned by larger firms (those that operate five or more units) were more likely to be profitable than units owned by smaller firms (71% versus 20%, P=0.03). A substantial number of rural hospitals lose money on mobile CT due to low Medicare reimbursement. In some areas, mobile hospital technology is a highly competitive industry. Evidence was found that several firms compete in some geographic areas and that some firms have lost hospital clients to competing vendors.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1996.tb00797.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1996.tb00797.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 10162854
AN - SCOPUS:0029818060
SN - 0890-765X
VL - 12
SP - 225
EP - 234
JO - Journal of Rural Health
JF - Journal of Rural Health
IS - 3
ER -