Hospital costs have difficulty in controlling input price's,
quality of care, case mix.
Controlling and measuring input price's has always been a
challenging task as these prices keep varying over time. This might
weaken the strength of input data collections and hence the
difficulty in controlling the prices Increases.
Providing quality care and services also poses a challenge on
the hospital cost studies as it a very tedious task when some of
the resources might be scarce.
Case mix refers to the categorisation of patient's based on the
treatment, care, resources required etc.
The hospital cost studies hence faces a challenging task in
controlling all these above mentioned things.