Balancing revenue generation with capacity generation: case distribution, financial impact and hospital capacity changes from cancelling or resuming elective surgeries in the US during COVID-19

• Main Authors: Joseph E. Tonna (Author), Heidi A. Hanson (Author), Jessica N. Cohan (Author), Marta L. McCrum (Author), Joshua J. Horns (Author), Benjamin S. Brooke (Author), Rupam Das (Author), Brenna C. Kelly (Author), Alexander John Campbell (Author), James Hotaling (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background To increase bed capacity and resources, hospitals have postponed elective surgeries, although the financial impact of this decision is unknown. We sought to report elective surgical case distribution, associated gross hospital revenue and regional hospital and intensive care unit...