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Show g i1 y 'r ri"', p W"'y yniyy Iiiiiiinig 8 C TV Salt Lake Tribnne, Saturday, April .yrr-- y y" Wig y jniryiiymyoiyirfiiyrJyr'iyiMf H ynlf.n ii 1 12, 1980 Matheson Tells Hospital Meet of States Climbing Health Care Costs Health care costs are rising faster in Utah than in the nation, Gov. Scott M. Matheson told a hospital conference Friday. Since 1976, hospital care costs rose 28 percent faster and physician care costs went up 33 percent faster in Utah, he said. In addition, nursing home costs climbed at more than double the national rate, the governor said. He addressed an educational seminar of : Intermnuntain Health Care Inc., a nonprofit. Salt Lake chain which owns, leases or manages 21 hospitals in the West. City-base- d IIIC Trustees The confe rence, which was trustees, governing board members and hospital officers, was held at the Little America Hotel, 522 S. Main. These costs increased at more than double the nation's overall rate of inflation in 1977 and are growing much more rapidly than Utahns' personal incomes, the governor said. IIIC Utah maintained a 13 percent average annual increase, Gov. Matheson said. He listed the "good-newsstatistic as that health expenditures per person in Utah were lower than those in the region and in the nation. . 'The increasing proportion of personal income they (health care costs) consume and the way decisions about cost and use of health care services are made all contribute to the great concern I have regarding the health care marketplace in Utah." He compared Utah cost statistics with those in the western region and nation. Cost Increase In 197H. he said, tha cost increase per hospital admission was 10.3 nationally, 13.1 percent in percent western region and 15.4 percent In Utah. Expenditures per patient day increased 11.5 percent in the nation, 12 percent in the western region and 17.4 percent In Utah, the governor reported. In 1977-7regional and national per capita hospital expenses stabilized at 11.7 percent while costs a complex issue." Calling high health-car- e the gove or said rn causes aren't limited to a single provider, group or Industry. The practices and philosophies which constitute our system for health care delivery and financing all contribute to the pressing need for cost containment," he said. He urged the hospital eiecutives to cooperate with the newly established Utah Health Cost Management Foundation, a organization designed to find ways to hold down rising health-car- e costs. His other suggestions to help contain costs included consumer information on alternative services and reimbursement, financial g by those who decide among alternatives, effective implementation of the certificate of need act and significant emphasis on health promotion and protection. Inflation Point Inflation has contribued to Utah's rising health care costs but inflation has taken its toll on hospitals ueross the nation. It should not. therefore, uffect Utah's hospitals disproportionately," Gov. Matheson said. Other contributing factors to Utah higher costs include an intense effort to bring up wages to levels in other areas, a high ratio of personnel to patients, capital expenses, use of ancillary services and steady increases in net Income, the governor said. FURNACE FILTERS COLD AIR YOU! FILTHS non-prof- it AU MAY Dim BI SIZKS 1"-2- KETCHUMS risk-takin- 400 So. &00 West 96KES m3 19 COLOR TV Never Priced This LOCAT ONS SIX APRIL Z To 19 Low. 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