Exact(1)
We did not include the clinics' overhead costs (e.g., laundry, heating expenses) because they were similar in the intervention (MI) and control (UC) groups and as an outreach program, whereby the set-up and delivery of the intervention occurred "off-site," the similar overhead costs would likely be minimal.
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As a sensitivity analysis, we also assessed differences in average clinic time for teens in the intervention and standard care groups over the course of the three visits and multiplied the difference in time by the mean salary of a pediatric endocrinologist plus 25% for fringe benefits and 60% for clinic overhead.
To calculate the direct medical costs of the intervention, the time required for the nurse to set up the computer, train the teen, and deliver the intervention was multiplied by the nurse educators' average compensation plus 25% for fringe benefits and 60% for clinic overhead.
Although they do have hefty fees for malpractice insurance, doctors who travel from clinic to clinic have no overhead and no record keeping.
Starting a private practice can cost between $5,000 and $10,000 and it may be up to three years before you turn a profit, whereas in a joint partnership you get support from your colleagues, increased referrals (if you work in a clinic), and shared overhead, health insurance, malpractice insurance, and other costs.
Despite the name, doctors own the clinics, which have low overhead costs in a city where setting up a practice can be wildly prohibitive.
In the field, he said, overhead costs at clinics could rise because patients increasingly rely on nonmedical staff in their doctor's office to explain benefits.
Shana Charles, director of health insurance studies at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, said a small clinic has nowhere near as much overhead as a large hospital, so it's not surprising that the clinic's costs would be lower.
In-clinic and in-home tests remove the overhead attributed to hospital operation, significantly reducing the overall cost of diagnostics.
That being said, VetPronto is working to make its services more affordable to the mainstream – something that could be possible thanks to not having the overhead associated with running a clinic – like having to pay rent or employee salaries.
The main reason for non-cost-effectiveness in this case is due to the higher overhead costs in the community-based clinic, which could only approximate costs of a hospital-based review by increasing the number of patients seen in the community-based clinic to 25 patients per day.
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