Improperly spreading the costs inflated WorldCom's reported profits before interest payments, taxes and other accounting adjustments by billions of dollars.
The region still poses many challenges, from uncleared minefields left over from the Iran-Iraq War to labor costs inflated by an oil boom economy.
†All costs inflated to 2008 $US using medical component of the consumer price index.
Drug costs were derived from the monthly index of medical specialities (MIMMS) and do not include individual hospital discount arrangements (1996 costs inflated to 1998).
Modeled costs in the analysis include pharmacy, mental health, diabetes management, and cardiovascular event-related costs inflated to 2012 US dollars using the Medical Care Component of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumerr Price Index.
Outcomes were evaluated for 1 year after the index quarter and included all-cause healthcare utilization and costs (inflated to 2008 US dollars) for inpatient hospitalizations, emergency room visits, physician visits, and outpatient visits.
Reported estimates for population-level total direct costs, inflated to 2011 Canadian dollars, ranged from $46,285,583 for patients aged 5 55 years in British Columbia (April 1996 March 200000) [ 10] to $140,882,165 for patients aged 0 9 years in Ontario (1994 1998) [ 24].
Costs inflate, productivity slides.
* No 2008 cost data were available for acute hospital bed days, so the PSSRU 2007 cost was inflated for this item (Curtis, 2007).
51 To allow comparison between these studies, the incremental cost was inflated to 2014 UK pound sterling prices.
