Table 4 |
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Health care expenditures |
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Category |
Kaiser Permanente (2000) US Dollars |
Danish Healthcare System (2000) US Dollars |
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Gross expenditures/revenue adjusted for: |
$14 200 m |
$12 791 m |
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Less capital depreciation |
- $557 m |
- $256 m |
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Less profit |
- $668 m |
- 0 |
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Operating expenditures: |
$12 975 m |
$12 535 m |
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Operating expenditures corrected for different expenditures: |
$12 975 m |
$12 535 m |
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Dental care |
- $10 m |
-$473 m |
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Special circumstances |
- $ 1 065 m |
-$278 m |
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Long-term nursing care |
- $ 2 283 m |
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Net expenditures after corrections: |
$11 900 m |
$ 9 779 m |
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Standardised per capita expenditures (6.1 million people for Kaiser; 5.3 million people for DHS) |
$1 951 |
$1 845 |
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Adjustments for age differences |
$1 951 |
$1 639 |
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Final adjusted per capita expenditure |
$1 951 |
$1 480 |
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‘Special circumstances’ refers to sales, marketing, and malpractice insurance (Kaiser Permanente) and research and development and state-covered malpractice insurance (Danish Healthcare System). For the DHS net expenditures ($9 799m) equals operating expenditures less (dental costs plus long term care, less supplementary private health insurance). |
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Frølich et al. BMC Health Services Research 2008 8:252 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-8-252 |
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