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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1976
Page
7
The article attributes rising health care expenses to three main factors: inflation, utilization, and patient demand. It details cost increases across hospital operations, supplies, and malpractice insurance, with specific figures and examples from Cincinnati hospitals, and notes physicians face rising malpractice costs and broader service expansion.
The text argues that utilization, defined as how often people use health services and which services they select, adds roughly 6 of the 20 percent cost increase. It cites better health literacy, broader coverage by plans, and new procedures as drivers of higher demand, noting open heart surgery and organ transplants as expensive miracles of modern medicine.
Area hospitals have joined cost containing programs for group purchasing and rentals with savings across food, laundry, data processing, and more. Blue Cross of Southwest Ohio reviews rate requests to prevent blank checks for hospitals while Blue Shield safeguards subscribers through utilization and peer reviews. Areawide planning has reduced duplication of services and equipment, steering care toward outpatient options and avoiding costly expansions.
Government Bureau of Labor Statistics figures show 1974 health care costs for a moderate income family of four in metropolitan Cincinnati 13 percent below the urban U S average and Dayton 12 percent below. Cincinnati and Pittsburgh posted the lowest urban costs while Dayton ranked second.
Hospitals, physicians, area planning agencies and Blue Cross Blue Shield in Southwest Ohio discuss efforts to hold down the rate of increase in health care costs. The coalition aims to keep costs among the nation’s lowest and to maintain affordable Blue Cross fees.
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