Sentence examples for the reference cost from inspiring English sources

The reference cost used to negotiate the delivery of a basic package of health services with contracted NGOs was estimated to be US$4.55 for 2002.

We assign a cost to each FCE in HES and to each outpatient attendance using the national average unit costs reported in the reference cost data.

Replacing the modeled cost estimate with the reference cost for ESI as a day case caused the ICER to rise to £27,459 (CIs 16,779 – 70,0916,779

We construct a range of variables about (1) hospital inpatient activity using data extracted from the hospital episode statistics (HES) database [ 35] and (2) outpatient attendances from the reference cost database [ 36, 37].

The unit costs for each procedure (PTCA, CABG, or cardiac transplant) were used in preference to the unit cost of an associated hospitalization as the reference cost for a procedure includes both these elements (the intervention and inpatient stay).

For private hospitals we used the reference cost lists, calculated on all medical fees reimbursed to patients by the Social Security Sick Funds [ 38], to calculate total costs per stay.

The reference costs that underpin the tariff prices were also published yesterday.

Radiotherapy was costed per fraction taken from the Reference Costs' National Average Unit Cost.

†Based on upper and lower quartile of the reference costs for each item.

44 There are no reference costs for HHD, but a financial audit by the Kidney Dialysis Project Group in preparation for the reference costs exercise showed that Trusts report costs for HHD ranging from £28 to £133 per session.

aDue to differences in the reference costs and financing systems of public and private hospitals in France, reference cost information was not equivalent in the two sectors and, therefore, was not directly comparable.