Cost limits on ancillary staff.

Emerging problem in medical education: ancillary staff and order sets

Hospitals are constantly trying to improve quality of patient care by increasing compliance with the core measures required by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal organization that administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs (health insurances provided by the federal government of the United States for people age 65 or older and those with limited income, respectively)....

Cost-Causation-Based Tariffs for Wind Ancillary Service Impacts

As the use of wind energy increases in the United States, there has been significant interest in assessing the integration cost of wind. With higher penetration, these costs have been shown to increase, but are generally modest relative to the price of wind energy. Although specific tariffs for wind generation for ancillary services are uncommon, we anticipate that balancing authorities (contro...

Limits of transaction cost analysis

Nevertheless, there are many unanswered questions of a conceptual, theoretical and empirical nature. Even the term ‘transaction cost’ awaits an adequately precise definition. As Williamson (1995, p. 33) himself notes: ‘There is nonetheless a grave problem with broad, elastic and plausible concepts – of which “transaction costs” is one and “power” is another – in that they lend themselves to ex ...

On the Limits of the Classical Approach to Cost Analysis

The classical approach to static cost analysis is based on transforming a given program into cost relations and solving them into closed-form upper-bounds. It is known that for some programs, this approach infers upper-bounds that are asymptotically less precise than the actual cost. As yet, it was assumed that this imprecision is due to the way cost relations are solved into upper-bounds. In t...

The limits of cost-effectiveness analysis.